Trading pits futures
The trading floor was organized into segmented areas, called pits, where traders and floor brokers met face-to-face to buy and sell futures contracts. Every one of those participants was a member, or associated with a member, of a specific exchange where they paid for the right to transact business on the floor. Open outcry is a method of verbal and hand signal communication used by traders at stock and futures exchanges. Signals and shouts convey trading information, intentions, and acceptance in the trading pits. Open outcry is also called pit trading. For many years the Futures markets only had a day session and all the transactions were conducted in trading pits on the floors of the Exchanges. The traders in the pits, known as locals, would act as market makers for when the paper (orders from off the trading floor) came into the pits. Prior to electronic trading, futures traders traded in open outcry pits. Some pit trading still occurs today. Here is a video of futures traders taken at the Chicago Board of Trade on November 27 To preserve, for historical record, the hand signals of open outcry trading.
As the end to pit trading for the futures market draws to a close at the CME, traders worry that pit “lingo” and hand signals will become a lost language, but say faster transaction speeds
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To preserve, for historical record, the hand signals of open outcry trading.
Even though more and more futures contracts are being traded online, there’s still plenty of action in the trading pits at Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and other U.S. exchanges. That’s where traders determine futures prices, which change from minute to minute as trading goes on. Even when the trading pits were the only way to place orders, the Futures market trading hours changed for some of the markets. These were very rare events, but they did happen. For example, the Interest Rate markets used to open at 09:00 ET and close at 15:00 each day.
This paper implements such an analysis for futures transaction data from pit trading. To deal with the absence of timely bid and ask quotes (which are used to
For many years the Futures markets only had a day session and all the transactions were conducted in trading pits on the floors of the Exchanges. The traders in the pits, known as locals, would act as market makers for when the paper (orders from off the trading floor) came into the pits. Prior to electronic trading, futures traders traded in open outcry pits. Some pit trading still occurs today. Here is a video of futures traders taken at the Chicago Board of Trade on November 27 To preserve, for historical record, the hand signals of open outcry trading. On Monday, most of the futures trading pits in Chicago and New York—where traders flashed hand signals lightning quick to buy and sell commodities like cattle, corn, gold, and, of course, pork bellies—will shut their doors, bringing the venues’ 167-year history to a close. Even though more and more futures contracts are being traded online, there’s still plenty of action in the trading pits at Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and other U.S. exchanges. That’s where traders determine futures prices, which change from minute to minute as trading goes on. Even when the trading pits were the only way to place orders, the Futures market trading hours changed for some of the markets. These were very rare events, but they did happen. For example, the Interest Rate markets used to open at 09:00 ET and close at 15:00 each day. The commodities futures pits in Chicago and New York where thousands of traders used to use hand signals to buy and sell everything from pork bellies to grains closed after the bell on July 6.
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Prior to electronic trading, futures traders traded in open outcry pits. Some pit trading still occurs today. Here is a video of futures traders taken at the Chicago Board of Trade on November 27
The trading floor was organized into segmented areas, called pits, where traders and floor brokers met face-to-face to buy and sell futures contracts. Every one of those participants was a member, or associated with a member, of a specific exchange where they paid for the right to transact business on the floor. Open outcry is a method of verbal and hand signal communication used by traders at stock and futures exchanges. Signals and shouts convey trading information, intentions, and acceptance in the trading pits. Open outcry is also called pit trading. For many years the Futures markets only had a day session and all the transactions were conducted in trading pits on the floors of the Exchanges. The traders in the pits, known as locals, would act as market makers for when the paper (orders from off the trading floor) came into the pits. Prior to electronic trading, futures traders traded in open outcry pits. Some pit trading still occurs today. Here is a video of futures traders taken at the Chicago Board of Trade on November 27 To preserve, for historical record, the hand signals of open outcry trading. On Monday, most of the futures trading pits in Chicago and New York—where traders flashed hand signals lightning quick to buy and sell commodities like cattle, corn, gold, and, of course, pork bellies—will shut their doors, bringing the venues’ 167-year history to a close.