Floored

This shares the characters of the trade floor in Chicago which had been for one hundred years a call and response activity. Computers were brought in with programs so long-time traders had to change their methods. Swearing.

I thought a lot about how to characterize this movie before writing the review. I think it captures a lot but also misses a lot. The movie has short interviews with some long-term successful traders and some not so, and it seems to be able to get closer to the latter. The one thing I didn't like was that it gave too much attention to one guy who had sour grapes rather than any legitimate or significant claim to trading going electronic and away from the floor. (Perhaps this guys was just not a likable person, not sure, or the director was trying to show how this person is dealing with his livelihood slipping away.) Also, I would have thought the film could have made a more poignant social commentary and picked the low hanging fruit by getting into high frequency trading and how the big money players and a handful of prop firms can basically buy speed to get orders to the exchanges before other less well-capitalized players.Some of the stories recalled by the traders are almost unbelievable like the no-holds barred aggression on the trading floor. Also, one of the guys who got wiped out being on the wrong side of a Yen trade, recalls while smoking a cigar and hitting a golf ball on a snowed over course how his wife subsequently left him when he got wiped out. This was well done and this person/character was well humanized. The movie, I think, did a good job of showing how the trading life can turn your life upside down, or, for some people, it can make you fabulously wealthy, as the director shows. But what I still can't figure out is who is the intended audience here? For most people close to trading, there is not really anything new and for people who really don't know much about trading, the view is really too narrow--it really mostly only gets close to locals trading their own accounts and some electronic prop guys toward the end who look like they're mostly trading news releases or the open and close.Given that, especially recently, the prices we pay as consumers for everyday goods is partially determined by men and women at trading firms of all sizes, and that more and more equity trading volume is being churned about by computer algorithms, as examples, I think there is room in the marketplace for a documentary that has a larger scope and a larger yet specific target audience.

for anyone interested in trading, a little informational, a little entertaining. this should be bought for its content because of how rare a documentary on the subject matter is.it happens to be edited very well, high quality and coherent. glad I own it.

For anyone interested in trading or the markets buy this movie! I have watched it 100s of times and never get board!

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Awesome doco about floor traders, where they came from and where they are going. Some true life personal accounts of guys with true grit. Seriously watch this film.

I heard about this movie when it first came out and finally bought it summer 2012. If you follow the markets closely and are interested in the people on the ground in the trading business, you will like the movie. It explored a number of different personality types and how trading affected them. And a movie with the Najarian brothers is always worth a look.

I'm a swing trader, so llistening to other traders and their experiences is insightful. As a trader, I constantly educating myself to sharping my skills and give me the edge.

This is a great movie and should be included in any new traders film library especialy electronic traders library to show the convenience of online trading and to say goodbye to open cry I can't stop watching it as there is some good information  Floored [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC ] Floored [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC