Trailer for the 2010 documentary "The PIt"

Watch the trailer for the 2010 documentary "The Pit".

The Pit: one of the most primitive, yet highly ritualized arenas of the financial world, The New York Board of Trade floor. Amidst the shouting and hand signals, the Pit is also a chaotic masterpiece of eye-to-eye trading. Through relationships built during her time as an NYBOT clerk, director Johanna Lee was given unprecedented access to the Pit, where she captured intense competition for survival, personal dramas and trading tickets.

However, the Pit has quickly become a casualty in the technology race, as electronic trading has come to dominate the market. As Lee follows the lives of several traders who were forced to either adapt or lose everything, personal and emotional stories unfold for a film that is relevant and compelling; an intimate portrait of men and women struggling to survive on one of the last platforms of pure capitalism and a unique snapshot of the American Dream.

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[raducumuculucu]

Anyone...... download link ?

[KaliAndy2]

@trystal1975 Nothing beautiful about computer algorithms that are rigged to rip off investors. HFT programs see order flow before it hits the market which allows a small group of people front run their orders ahead of everyone. Its a scam to enrich billionaires....

[mspinney203]

This is one very "perfect" video. =p

[eessek]

The movie is streaming on Netflix now..just watched it...Its pretty good...

It is focused more on the transition from open outcry to electronic trading and the issues that many of the traders went through in this transition. If you watched "Floored", it is very similar to that but the energy is not as negative as "Floored." The individuals followed in "The Pit" actually had positive outcomes from the electronic transition.

[ziyaze]

Where can I find this documentary? (1% > 99%)

[jensarmbag]

Futures trading is over now. Thanks MF GLOBAL, CFTC, CME, Goldman, SPIC for shaking the individual traders out of the markets and making a clear path for the Big Banks & corporations to control & corner the commodity markets.