[HN Gopher] What Actually Happens at the End of 'Trading Places'...
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What Actually Happens at the End of 'Trading Places'? (2013)
Author : austinallegro
Score : 31 points
Date : 2025-04-24 20:11 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| gibbitz wrote:
| https://youtu.be/9wSQ9Zk_9gQ?si=LIymSh4sGl2jehYo great video on
| orange juice concentrate futures
| allenrb wrote:
| I've worked in trading for some time now (on the tech nerd side)
| and can still remember my jaw dropping when I learned that FCOJ
| is actually traded and wasn't made up for the movie.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| My father was a trader on the floor of the CME in Chicago for a
| short bit (mid to late 90s), and Trading Places was provided as
| required reading before he taught me how to trade commodities.
| Great film. I have the VHS copy somewhere for sentimental
| reasons.
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| Why you can't trade onions futures is also a fun read, for
| similar reasons ("The Great Onion Corner").
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| https://www.npr.org/2015/10/22/450769853/the-great-onion-cor...
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Kosuga
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
| nicwolff wrote:
| That's funny, that in 2010 the Commodity Futures Trading
| Commission specifically banned the insider trade that bankrupted
| the Duke Brothers at the end of Trading Places!
|
| Here's a direct link to the testimony mentioned in the Wall
| Street Journal:
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| https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/opagensler-...
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