Sorry to let the blog go dormant but I’ve been finishing up the book and just concluded a final pass on it.  Only thing that’s keeping it from release is various logistical things and my hope is it’ll be available electronically on Kindle within a few weeks and hard copies shortly after that.  I don’t have anything to leak but …

photo credit: johndenniston.ca Generally I always keep this blog oriented to futures trading floors but this piece of market history that Graham D. found is worth posting because of it’s uniqueness.  I remember reading of the Vancouver Stock Exchange’s notorious reputation and the following photo gallery is an interesting look into that trading floor of the mid 1970’s.  Basically it …

 Have to say I’ve watched this three times and still can’t figure it out.  It’s an interactive opera based upon open outcry trading, only in the UK would they think of something like this. Here’s the Telegraph’s take on it for further understanding:  Reality Opera about the stock market And NPR Marketplace’s take:  British opera finds harmony in financial world …

In finishing up some details for the hand signal book (for reals, it’s pretty much done) I wanted to take a look at some stuff in London and it was disappointing that Guildhall and City Business libraries have virtually nothing on the LIFFE floor. One positive thing to come out of the excursion to Guildhall is that walking through the …