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Floored

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Floored

Fortunes are made and lost in this engrossing documentary about the open-cry floor traders of Chicago's Mercantile Exchange.

FLOORED
| 10 videos
 
09:48
FLOORED Episode 1
A world that's more riot than profession, the trading floors of Chicago are a place where gambling your family's mortgage is all in a day's work. Floored offers a unique window to this lesser-known world of finance. These men may not have degrees, but they've got guts, and penchant for excess that solicits simultaneous feelings of revulsion and admiration. But like many aspects of our economy, technology is changing the way these traders do business, and these eccentric pit denizens aren't the type to take kindly to new tricks.
08:13
FLOORED Episode 2
A world that's more riot than profession, the trading floors of Chicago are a place where gambling your family's mortgage is all in a day's work. Floored offers a unique window to this lesser-known world of finance. These men may not have degrees, but they've got guts, and penchant for excess that solicits simultaneous feelings of revulsion and admiration. But like many aspects of our economy, technology is changing the way these traders do business, and these eccentric pit denizens aren't the type to take kindly to new tricks.
11:34
FLOORED Episode 3
A world that's more riot than profession, the trading floors of Chicago are a place where gambling your family's mortgage is all in a day's work. Floored offers a unique window to this lesser-known world of finance. These men may not have degrees, but they've got guts, and penchant for excess that solicits simultaneous feelings of revulsion and admiration. But like many aspects of our economy, technology is changing the way these traders do business, and these eccentric pit denizens aren't the type to take kindly to new tricks.
10:54
FLOORED Episode 4
A world that's more riot than profession, the trading floors of Chicago are a place where gambling your family's mortgage is all in a day's work. Floored offers a unique window to this lesser-known world of finance. These men may not have degrees, but they've got guts, and penchant for excess that solicits simultaneous feelings of revulsion and admiration. But like many aspects of our economy, technology is changing the way these traders do business, and these eccentric pit denizens aren't the type to take kindly to new tricks.
11:05
FLOORED Episode 5
A world that's more riot than profession, the trading floors of Chicago are a place where gambling your family's mortgage is all in a day's work. Floored offers a unique window to this lesser-known world of finance. These men may not have degrees, but they've got guts, and penchant for excess that solicits simultaneous feelings of revulsion and admiration. But like many aspects of our economy, technology is changing the way these traders do business, and these eccentric pit denizens aren't the type to take kindly to new tricks.
12:38
FLOORED Episode 6
A world that's more riot than profession, the trading floors of Chicago are a place where gambling your family's mortgage is all in a day's work. Floored offers a unique window to this lesser-known world of finance. These men may not have degrees, but they've got guts, and penchant for excess that solicits simultaneous feelings of revulsion and admiration. But like many aspects of our economy, technology is changing the way these traders do business, and these eccentric pit denizens aren't the type to take kindly to new tricks.
10:27
FLOORED Episode 7
A world that's more riot than profession, the trading floors of Chicago are a place where gambling your family's mortgage is all in a day's work. Floored offers a unique window to this lesser-known world of finance. These men may not have degrees, but they've got guts, and penchant for excess that solicits simultaneous feelings of revulsion and admiration. But like many aspects of our economy, technology is changing the way these traders do business, and these eccentric pit denizens aren't the type to take kindly to new tricks.
09:15
FLOORED Episode 8
A world that's more riot than profession, the trading floors of Chicago are a place where gambling your family's mortgage is all in a day's work. Floored offers a unique window to this lesser-known world of finance. These men may not have degrees, but they've got guts, and penchant for excess that solicits simultaneous feelings of revulsion and admiration. But like many aspects of our economy, technology is changing the way these traders do business, and these eccentric pit denizens aren't the type to take kindly to new tricks.
02:35
FLOORED episode 0 "Futures Trading 101"
"Futures Trading 101" is a primer for the Babelgum exclusive series from FLOORED. "Futures Trading 101" makes use of archival footage to give a quick 2 minute background of Futures trading in Chicago, a history that goes back over 150 years.
03:16
The Transition (James Allen Smith)
The advent of computerized trading is forcing floor traders to make a sobering choice: adapt or get out. In 'The Transition', we meet Rob Proniewski, a trader faced with such a decision. It's a way of life, of ego and excess that can't be found anywhere else - but it's disappearing like so many parts of our increasingly digitized world. What path will he choose and what are the obstacles that stand in his way?
 

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Quotes

"There's an elegiac poignancy in James Allen Smith's Floored." - Andy Webster, The New York Times
"a lively documentary about a profession that has almost been wiped out." - Rick Warner, Bloomberg.com
"Floored profiles a handfuls of eccentric (read: obnoxious) traders attempting the difficult transition to electronic exchange. Stock-doc acknowledges the high-pressure stakes that led many traders to addiction and suicide..." - Andrew Schenker, Village Voice, New York.

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The advent of computerized trading is forcing floor traders to make a sobering choice: adapt or get out.

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