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Crank, Booze and Matching Option Order Tickets by Hand
A clerk's life at the PHLX options market in the 1980s
May 8
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Clifton Linton
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Crank, Booze and Matching Option Order Tickets by Hand
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April 2025
Getting Trades Using a Risky Business Approach
How one execution house sales rep exploited a market inefficiency when soliciting order flow
Apr 3
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Clifton Linton
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Getting Trades Using a Risky Business Approach
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February 2025
WMAQ-AM’s Alan Crane, a retiree and a locomotive engineer
CME Visitors Center tales including: a radio reporter and a pair of traders
Feb 27
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Clifton Linton
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WMAQ-AM’s Alan Crane, a retiree and a locomotive engineer
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January 2025
Crypto Trading Trek -2
I thought I had a winner . . .
Jan 7
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Clifton Linton
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Crypto Trading Trek -2
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December 2024
Sam and my Crypto Trading Trek
RIP the trading floor
Dec 23, 2024
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Clifton Linton
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Sam and my Crypto Trading Trek
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November 2024
Trading Floor Interpretations of Murphy's Law
I was cleaning my office the other day and found a “Trading Humor” file.
Nov 26, 2024
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Clifton Linton
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Trading Floor Interpretations of Murphy's Law
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October 2024
The 1992 Great Chicago Flood
The event that showed why Chicago's futures and options markets were indispensable
Oct 18, 2024
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Clifton Linton
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The 1992 Great Chicago Flood
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August 2024
Ancient Greek Commodity Trading
And . . . Hermes had a claim to have been placed on the top of the CBOT building
Aug 29, 2024
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Clifton Linton
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Ancient Greek Commodity Trading
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July 2024
The Chicago River Softball Throw
Featuring the best arms of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange trading floor
Jul 15, 2024
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Clifton Linton
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The Chicago River Softball Throw
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June 2024
Summer time, summer time - A Best of Tales of Yore post
Cooling off in the pits with beach type of fun
Jun 21, 2024
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Clifton Linton
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May 2024
The trading bug bit me. That was a lesson! -2
I wanted to short the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA).
May 28, 2024
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Clifton Linton
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The trading bug bit me. That was a lesson! -2
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April 2024
I Caught the Trading Bug -1
Adventures in options land
Apr 15, 2024
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Clifton Linton
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I Caught the Trading Bug -1
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