Zero Is a Clenched Fist
Donald MacKenzie: Trading from the Pit, 1 November 2007
Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London
by Caitlin Zaloom.
Chicago, 224 pp., £18.50, November 2006,0 226 97813 3 Show More
by Caitlin Zaloom.
Chicago, 224 pp., £18.50, November 2006,
“... The new financial trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade is a striking sight, and Caitlin Zaloom describes it well. Opened in 1997, it occupies a ‘huge stone block’; the trading floor itself is ‘the size of Grand Central Station’, and has no windows or even a public entrance. The walls are ‘unadorned granite, shiny, cold and imposing’, with huge electronic displays of prices, index levels and interest rates running across the top ... ”
