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  • Go smoke some crack...Yee without sin cast the first stone.

  • If you want to find out why our economy is so broken, you need only look at the people of the nymex floor and realize these unintelligent asswipes are the ones basically in the driver's seat.

  • @HisEmptyHouse without traders there would be no liquidity in the market though. You need traders in an economy to provide liquidity for price hedging. NO TRADERS=NO LIQUIDITY.

  • I would like to witness a movie making set with all of those narcissistic actors who contribute nothing of value to society. They are WAY too overpaid. It’s embarrassing that we place these people on a pedestal, listen to their political rhetoric, and passively permit their lives to dominate a quarter of our national news. This video portrays attributes of the human animal that are also found in acting world. The big difference is that one deals with reality while the other deals with fantasy.

  • @marked221 You bring up good points about the cult of celebrity being overblown but I really do not think it a good idea to dismiss people's opinions because they are actors. Being an actor doesn't render someone unintelligent or mean they can't carry worthwhile opinions. There are a lot of very bright people who are actors, and who actually do have important things to say - there are a rare few who talk the talk AND walk the walk. George Clooney for example has my respect for that reason.

  • @marked221 , Right on brotha! Coudn't have said it any better.

  • 3 things.

    1)RDJ has a networth of $85 million... and he continues to make nothing but big time movies... so if anyone's money-hungry it's him.

    2)RDJ is talking shit... therefore he is a shit talker... but he's judging people for talking shit...

    3)All of his movies are at least 1.5+ hours long. Now having to endure 1.5 hours of any of his self obsessed characters is hell.

    I get called a fag every day. It's called being the bigger person. He wasn't being heroic his ego was just bruised.

  • according to Leah McGrath Goodman's book, The Asylum, one of the traders said Downey looked like a "faggot" because of his hair. which gives some context (along with spaul410's comment)

    DanW900: the book also points out that the vast majority of trading happens in the 'dark market', not 'open market' pits ... the over-the-counter dark market is completely secretive (and also the NYMEX floor no longer exists.. its electronic now)

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  • OIL PRICES ARE GONNA FALL LIKE RAIN,SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Me like!

  • what's the name of the song at the beginning? 

  • All the big banks must be paying these traders good money. The only reason oil prices are sky high is because of these idiots speculating. All they care about is making a quick buck while us regular people suffer from high fuel prices. Robert Downey is right. LOL

  • Damn it feels good to be a banker...

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  • Those are some pretty damn good big swinging dicks

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  • his statement could be considered accurate if rather simplistic......but wait a minute this is Robert Downey Jr isnt it? a greedy low IQ money grabbing whore in his own right - what a moron...at least these guys make money off their own back, unlike Robert - who trades his tainted and quite frankly mediocre career off his fathers name... what a joke - he is the original YUPPY BRAT! what a moron

  • Gervais is mean spirited for telling the truth?? Ahh poor little diddums can't take a joke... Betty Ford Clinic, Rolling on the floor laughing my FUCKING arse off...

  • lol his ending monologue is hilarious.

  • In defense of Robert Downey Jr. a few old friends of mine were on the nymex floor during the day of this filming. There was an employee on the nymex floor who was a homosexual and wasn't afraid to show it. Everyday traders on the floor used to taunt him and say cruel jokes. When Mr. Downey saw this he began defending the the man, then the traders began taunting Downey in a huge way.

  • That's funny... that is the same way I feel about Hollywood.

  • This douche has no idea of the sacrifice, pain, effort, dedication, sheer bloody mindedness and singleness of purpose it takes to become a successful trader.

  • Strutting about like an absolute cunt. On his moral high horse, whilst he makes shit films for brainwashed sheep.

    WANKER!!!!!!!!!

  • What does he know.... he's some C list junkie actor for F's sake. Never had a real job in his life.

    Typical of the mentally lazy modern age and youth who think things just happen. as if my magic Er, how did that chicken get in your sandwich numb-nuts? er, how did that bank account from which you've just written a cheque come into being?

    What a pr*ck.

  • this means a lot coming from a strung out heroin addict who is only famous now because of Iron Man

    LOL

  • this guy looks like a huge faggot

  • They are screaming because its an open auction, with tons of $ at stake.

  • That's one of the old WTC buildings. Is that where the nymex was?

  • @jeffsmonte Yes, it was in 4 WTC - moved to 1 N.End ave around '98 or '99.

  • what does he know about real raw emotion, high volume, stress. the guy is always high, and when he isn't he's reading lines that he didn't write... that's real IQ?!?!

  • what does he know about real raw emotion, high volume, stress. the guy is always high, and when he isn't he's reading lines that he didn't write... that's real IQ?!?!

  • money cant buy you happyness...poverty cant buy you anything...Traders kick ass!!!

  • Real traders wouldn't be offended by this and would accept it as a compliment.

  • @mistax2k

    I could not agree more. The reason the opportunity is so great in the market is precisely because he is right.

  • A skilled day trader can make millions a year its trading its thier job to buy and sell whatever it is thier trading to buy low sell high or sell high buy low robert downey is a fucken idiot he has no idea or clue about trading why the fuck is he even down there if he doesnt even belong there what the fuck does he think people are yelling out loud just for fun or on purpose just to piss people off no thier doing beacuse there in the middle of trade ............

  • any idea on what THIS CLIP IS FROM?

  • i think it's the crude oil ring

  • First off, some of those guys make a TON of money "dumb" or not, and second isnt Robert Downey  Jr. a junkie lowlife himself?

  • yeah like Downey Jnr. doesn't like money himself.

  • Fuck Downey.

    I rather be greedy than a crackhead

  • the guy talking in the video is fucking stupid

  • The irony is that (I speak having worked on LIFFE, and it's like an animal pack on turbo) that as a visitor to the NYMEX floor, he'd be put up with but also very looked down on - quite probably getting open cajoling and insults just for being there. Maybe that's he left so angry... they didn't want him there. Thank God he's not a good looking chick lol...!

  • Wanker. I wonder if he's ever had a proper job.

  • PS Nymex isn't on Wall Street you panty pad

  • Yah, and I bet the narrators daddy is some multi-millionaire jerk-off lawyer who is richer than anyone here. Who funds his little boys opinions.

    'Daddy I've run out out of money. Please send me another $20k to help fund my protest against business and money.

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  • @phoenixw2 the narrator? robert downey jr?

  • @phoenixw2

    PS NYMEX isn't on Wall St - correct, but it is considered part of Wall St -panty pad

  • @robertuuces

    Yeah the end comment is on the surface amusing, but then also an easy and cheap shot. But there is so much that is fake about the whole piece. You would not, could not, as a journalist, some stranger in a mere 'Visitor badge' go and push around on a floor as he makes out he does. He is a minnow there... ready to be eaten.

    I've seen polite escorted guests torn to shreds for less... (by which I mean the whole kinda momentum of the floor turn against a stranger)

  • @robertuuces Robert Downey Jr. and I agree.

  • Yeah and that Sherlock film looks like a right load of old bollocks, won't be going to see that shit.

  • Easy to say when you can command millions for appearing in a movie.

    You self satisfied, hypocritical PRICK. & Iron Man is the most ridiculous, low IQ, piece of CRAP I've ever watched.

  • why are they all screaming in there like that?

  • @oleedee to be heard.

  • i think he was being complimentary...it would be an honor to be a money hungry jackrabbit - at least they give a a damn about something

  • Iron Man comes to Iron Mountain

  • Mr. Pot, please meet Mr. Kettle.... Mr. Kettle the junkie.

  • And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all you need to know about traders. Well-said Mr. Downey.

  • This guy is a nobhead

  • you 're so gay dude.. lol

  • that place is crazy though...

    they make big figures and most of them never went to college, or finished high school.

  • @MetalBen Are you serious? How the phuck is that possible?? Here I am getting a college degree!

  • Money hungry, bet he never turned down a pay check go take some drugs Robert. Oh yes I am one of the low IQ, high energy, money hungry jack rabbits sorry about having to endure us. I am going to go cry in to my high 7 figure bank account.

  • :) me 2

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  • greed is to harh of a word...

    i think a better term would be "Ambition".

  • Well put, Downey.

  • Ihr seid doch alle so abgebrannt nur weil ihr zu dumm seid euer geld anzulegen, also kommt ihr hier hin und leckt diesem zweitklassigen dilletantischen schauspieler den arsch, indentifiziert euch mit ihm weil er toll schimpfen kann und meint dann das er recht hat..

    Fakt ist und bleibt: Downey hat nicht den miesesten Hauch einer Ahnung von dem was dort abgeht und wie sein geld ohne seine arbeit auf der bank mehr wird. also soll er die schnauze halten und ihr sollt dies auch. punkt fertig aus!

  • DITTO FOR THE ENTIRE CNBC CROWD.

  • Man !

    This was funny, the comments from this guy is wonderful and 100% true...agreed !!!!!!!!!!!

  • thats the floor where my dad works! lmao.

  • You stupid dickwad, that's the NYMEX, not the NYSE.  The guys at the NYMEX don't have more than a high school education. The place is full of Brooklyn guineas.

  • epitome of huma greed.

  • I don't understand! What's going on?!

  • this place is the best

  • OHHH LOOOOL.. To all you "i love downey and have to defend him from haters"-cocksuckers in here:

    F U C K Y O U ! ! ! !

    the fact he is an actor and cute doesnt change the fact ha would be losing everything in one mitnute when it comes to trading.. any more questions? he is an actor? an entertainer? ok so what the fuck is he searching down the floor? a new life? somebody to hate? somebody to master hi8m? go and become actor if this is so proper you dumbass downey fuckers.

  • Use spell check fuckin retard

  • u wanna mess with me.. spell german .. fokking riitaart..

  • I'll do better- I know German fluently- Du bist ein Scheiskopf

  • use the rechtschreibfunktion.. du hässlicher spack

  • HA you think he's cute. That's funny your gayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy­yyyyyyyyy

  • Gambling over commodities like that surely is the path to ruin.

  • thump that bible! tell that to george soro's, being on forbes billionaire list isnt ruining him any

  • no matter who the fuck he is.. i dont give a damn oabout names. His "name" doesnt save him from being sold short at the slavery market^^. for me, this "kid" (think he hasn't even hairs on his dick) is just like cattle. go long or short. he'll be homeless and poor 4 ever, and his stupid name doesnt change it!! capitalism rocks, and downey missed this train!

  • Downey is the guy that played IRONMAN, you know, that 100mill+ movie that came out last summer? He's F-N rich.

    He's one of the most talented actors out there right now. This vid is from back in the 80's, he's in his 40's now and you need to crawl out from under that rock you call home because this is general knowledge!

  • Wow you must feel stupid. now don't you. Have you watched the news lately . Do you own a TV. If you did you would know Downey Jr. and that Capitalism is fucked....It has fucked everyone...not only the poor this time. It's innately flawed.

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  • You'll develop an ulcer if you bottle up those feelings. Let it out!

  • LOOOOOOOOOOL

  • was there an actuall reason to posting this video?

  • you tell them Ironman,, great video

  • is that robert downey jr?

  • this little poor piece of a homeless tv reporter is just one of those cuntfaces being sold at the market.. but thats ok because there are some people to do this highend earning job.. so go back sorting milkbottles in ur neighborhoods market loser

  • Dude, its Robert Downey Jr.

    Far from homeless and so not sorting milkbottles at your market. He did a commentary, he wasnt trying to be a reporter.

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  • Genius, he's at NYMEX. They don't trade stocks at the NYMEX! Its a commodities exchange. You're comming off like the low I.Q. jack rabbit.

  • Could someone post the whole comment he has at the ending there for me?!:D

    My english isn't good enough to get all the words..

  • If money is evil then that building is hell. "This is the most obnoxious group of money hungry, low I.Q., high energy, jack rabbit, fucking wannabe big time small time shit talking, bothersome, irritating bunch of motherfuckers that I had ever had to endure for more than 5 minutes."

  • LOL.. Thank you :D

  • I can't believe the traders ignored him...if he turned up on a floor in the UK back in the day he'd have been the centre of all insults until he left.

  • too much money to be made I guess lol

  • Well then mutherfucker what the hell are you doing there in the first place if you dont belong thier you dont work thier so stay out of there you fucken retard you dont no what the fuck is going on so how the fuck could you talk shit when you dont even know whats happening dumbass

  • Your a fucking idiot you sheister------don't you know that it's the actor Robert Downey Jr in the 80's ---he's not a reporter you dumbass. And fix your fucking grammar - you're trashing the English language. You're obviously the one that doesn't know what's going on. Probably never even been near a trading floor.

  • you loose!

  • that's so funny!! particularly coming from an actor!!

  • Hey Robbie..look at it this way...if everyone was an actor, you'd be out of a job and your bank balance would be a tad worse for wear.

    Live and let Live....

  • lol

  • when i saw the people screaming i naturally assumed they were betting on a cockfight in the centre.

  • Take it easy, it's just a casino

  • fight!!

  • this guy is a fucken retard doesnt he have any fucken clue or idea towards how much money a trader who handles the order on the pit can make they can become extremely rich pretty quick this guy is stupid

  • Um that's pretty much it....lol they stand there and try to buy and sell...

    They're all people who want to make it rich, so they screw over their clients to try to get there. A LOT of them do, YOU have no idea what these people really do.

    Yes there are decent ones that take care of their clients but there are a lot of greedy bastards too. RDJ is right, that place is full of greedy screaming bastards

  • Well of course beacuse the people who handle the orders institution orders they are the ones who consistenly win in trading beacuse they have the answers right a regular retail trader who doesnt know anything will never make it rich beacuse they guess when they trade but shit but in trading thats the name of game big boys fuck over the small people simple as that they have to screw over clients but thats beacuse most clients trade the wrong way if they were trading the right way well it allgood

  • In order for someone to win, someone has to lose.

  • Yes but when you're stealing from people its wrong...

    Is winning worth that much? is it worth giving up morals?

    I don't think so.

  • Who are they stealing from? The majority of floor traders are self backed, risking their own money.

    When you play a football game and win did you steal it from the opposition? No one is forced to trade, the people on the other end of a winning trade knew what they were doing when they got in, and if they didn't they deserved to lose.

  • You do not understand trading. Do some research then post.

  • Meant to add that Robert Downey Jr. comes off as kind of holier than thou.

  • But weren't the people yelling just people trying to execute trades? I don't think they were shouting to make money for themselves, just to execute their clients' orders to buy or sell or whatever. I'm not sure, I don't really understand it all, just saying. Thanks.

  • roll BAMA ROLL your tide of wealth class taxes up WALL STREETS GOLD PLATED FUKIN ASSHOLE UNTIL IT GUSHES BLOOD!

  • hehe

  • thanks for speaking the truth Downey!

  • you assholes fcked us over!! He's right about you greedy two timing douchebags!! Seriously if anyone cant see that do some research about what these people are really like. They spend shtloads of money, NOT THEIR money on lavish parties, sports cars and drugs. They SUCK.

  • its black friday FUCKTARDS AND SHIT HEADS...10-24-08...SWILL THAT SHIT SOUP NYMEX, AND NYSE, FUCK YOU FUCK YOU VERY MUCH!

  • you guys seriously need to COOL IT. im a 6th grader on my sisters youtube for a project about what the stock market exchange looks like and you obviously dont have anything good to say. if you have nothing good to say, please dont say anything at all. the only reason you know what you know is because you saw it on tv. Enless your a true researcher and KNOW what your talking about dont say anything and keep your mouth SHUT.

  • who is this guy??

  • hows that shit sandwich tasting on 10.17.08 NYMEX? and that goes double for the NYSE,,,,,wait till BAMA COMES TO WALL STREET.

  • garyowen4ever

    I think you are the most ignorant person on this post. What do you do for a living? I am looking back at your previous post and one of your post suggest that you must be a democratic socialist with NO ASPIRATIONS IN LIFE. You want to tax everyone on wall street and the rich . I THINK BY THAT POST I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE IN THE TAX BRACKET.(CASE CLOSED)

  • oldieslover329 and whoever else comments

    If you have nothing good to say then dont say nothing at all. I am tired of having people talking crap about the markets that dont know crap only what they heard on tv.

  • HOW'S THAT SHIT SANDWICH NYMEX! its 10.08.08.

  • lol i dont get this trading thing =]

  • its 10.6.08,,,,,,,EAT SHIT NYMEX!

  • He doesnt understand it, first off they act like that because they're trading not because they're trying to be your friend, tradings serious

  • Wow... I counted 11 adjectives in a row.

  • happy new year nymex........NO BAILOUT FOR YOU.....nexr!

  • low iq? takes the piss. why dont you crawl back up your own arse you self important, ignorant dickhead

  • disgusting.

  • "money hungry low iq" lol I agree on the money hungry but that man is honestly retarded if he thinks brokers have a low iq

  • ok..................lets TAX THE SHIT OUT OF THE WALL ST WEALTH CLASS RICH PIGS FOR THE TAXPAYER MAINSTREET BAILOUTS................9-19-0­8

  • the ultimate hypocrisy...robert downey jr. standing there, smugly accusing traders of being stupid and greedy. amazing. i wonder how many of those traders ended up getting arrested for speedballing and then falling asleep in some stranger's bed (a child's bed, no less)

  • The Saudi's cut production - the market goes down!

    Gustav threatens the coast - the market goes down!

    Ike trashes Houston - the market goes down!

  • SPECULATING SOB'S FCKED THIS COUNTRY

  • ya right they gave liquidity so the oil companys didnt speculate, idiot, go blame someone else for your problems

  • really,must have fluncked econ 101,then again what does a 20yr in the UK know. I hear the commonwealth is having a great time taking over London. Karma is a bitch,ain't it?

    So the oil comp don't speculate,they are the market Einstein..heard of hedgeing?? later,go to the pub and eat some good curry.

  • lol i'm in the USA and an sit with a 500% gain on the year dumbass, you totally just got ownd

  • I got 501% .... on my SIm acct like you.

  • Well good job

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  • They look like a bunch of Muslims at an anti-american rally.

  • fuck you

  • when you nymex parasites come to chicago and make the hot bar scene,,,,,be sure and tell everyone in the joint that you made a killing on oil!

  • There are more traders, from more countries than every before. Fortunatley for me (despite the markets not begin Zero Sum Gain) most are losing (Hence the reason for margin calls).

  • Ladies - please. I have not quite got the jist of the arguement but being a hedge fund trader myself, anyone accusing the markets of losing traders have their head truely lodged somewhere & it is thoroughly stuck. Over the last 7 years the derivatives market has exploded. The amount it has grown in that time is over 4 times the world realestate value.

  • So they are being replaced by computers? So what? They just trade through the electronic market. That changes nothing! To bad you communists don't know anything about free markets. Oh, and RDJ (actor) might want to check with his hedge fund (he has one) they probably are involved in energy trades on a daily basis. BTW not everyone is a trader in that pit most of them are trading for large brokerage houses taking orders from normal folks, institutions, and hedge funds like RDJ's

  • ha lol

  • Although I agree that if you are a good trader you can literally have anything you want. I think that many people's perception of risk has gone out the window. These are awesome jobs, but again only if you are good. If someone on WallStreet makes 100mil in a year - they could have an aweful year, lose their job, lifestyle & everything else.

  • If the NYMEX or any other wall st. outfit were to suffer another 911 style attack, I DONT KNOW ANYONE ON MAINSTREET THAT WOULD FRANKLY GIVE A DAMN.

  • Bwahahah..he nailed those people square on the head. Low IQ big mouths.

    Well there is a BRIGHT SPOT!.

    They have all been replaced by computers.

    Now they can go out in the real world and

    see what their "skills" get them. They will be selling ice cream out of the back of a Good Humor wagon..."Do I hear 75 cents for this last grape Whammy Stick?...75...? 70?

  • I wonder if you've ever met a pit trader? It's true many do fail, but if you've ever met a successful one, you would know these are some to the sharpest minds you'll ever come across. If you can make it as a pit trader, you can succeed at anything in life.

  • On the contrary a pit trader will succeed at one thing..trading money, watching the surge and flow of greed and fear in the market. That is not "everything" in life. Its precisely the point of this video. The reporter comments on the extremely narrow, shallow vulgar range of values of these people. The kicker is..America rewards these freaks with millions while men of true talent starve. No no..dont ask what "true talent" means..thats part of the education you never received.

  • Part 1. Excuse me? And what makes you think you know me? I have a fine liberal arts education from a top university and MA in Linguistics. That has nothing to do with me as a trader, and my trading doesn't diminish anything else about me. I didn't say 'money was everything,' but you seem to think money is nothing! What a fool! Don't say, 'what's more important, happiness or money?' It isn't an either/or proposition. What's more important, your arm or your leg? They're both important.

  • Part 2. I've worked in several fields and met lots of knuckleheads, but the one place I rarely meet them is among successful traders. A capitalist society rewards 'men of talent' with money; it's no coincidence, then, that successful traders make loads of money since they are immensely talented. And, as I said before, without these guys you wouldn't even have food on grocery store shelves. These markets make capitalism work; it won't work without them. Get an education, please.

  • Yeah, right...

    I'm sure your much more 'talented.'

    And what do you mean 'replaced by computers'? You're just showing more of your ignorance. The pits are disappearing, but that just means that the TRADERS trade in front of a computer screen now. There are more traders today than at any other time in history, and all these markets are still growing. Please, please, do society a favor and try to educate yourself before speaking your ignorant mind.

  • And the guy speaking is a loser LOL

  • The voice of a man with a low IQ if ever I heard it - everyone needs to earn a living.. what I don't understand is what he thinks they wanna be?? Maybe they wanted to be traders

  • Bullshit.. he nailed these vacuous clowns.

    But..they are all being replaced by computers

    Lets see where their supposed "skills" get them in the real world.

  • Downey does coke but those guys look like they are on meth.