The once-raucous pork belly pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange will soon be history. The storied open outcry pit — where orders are shouted out and contracts bought and sold with a series of ...

When Ed Tilly walked onto the Chicago Board Options Exchange floor in 1987 — where trading pits teemed with sweaty men barking orders and flashing signals — the recent college graduate was hooked.

@2024 - All Right Reserved.

CHICAGO, May 25 (Reuters) - CME Group is considering extending open-outcry grain trading at the Chicago Board of Trade by 45 minutes to close at 2 p.m. CDT, an exchange spokesman said on Friday. Grain ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - This week's enthusiastic response to the new electronic trading of coffee, sugar and other products on the New York Board of Trade suggests that the days of traditional ...

Pete Kosanovich can’t wait to put his trading jacket back on and return to the noisy Chicago pit where he’s worked for 17 years. The burly former football player is known on the floor by the letters ...

Prime Trading has established a floor operation at Cboe Options Exchange, in a sign the 177 year-old tradition of face-to-face derivatives trading in Chicago is continuing to attract investment. Prime ...

In the boom 1990s bull market a small group of aspiring traders attend the University of Trading experiencing firsthand the thrill of openoutcry trading in the ...