THE VIDEO SHELF · commodities trading
Orange Juice Trade - Trading Places
The climactic orange juice futures trading scene from the film Trading Places, in which the heroes corner the market on the trading floor.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited as an accessible depiction of how commodity trading and the trading pit work.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- wKw
- Topic
- commodities trading
- Format
- comedy
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
If there was a bad response to a critic, this will be it. While Sirer's post was a bit terse, this response doesn't earn brownie points by going the same route. First, they start off as many "responses" in crypto currency seem to start that …
thisisit on Hacker News · 2017-06
In Official Response to “Bancor Is Flawed”This is the very basic function of a market maker. They offer to "make" a market even when none exists. So if everyone wants to buy they will keep offering until their inventory runs out. I haven't read the Bancor paper or code so I …
thisisit on Hacker News · 2017-06
In Official Response to “Bancor Is Flawed”This is still the best (Hollywood quality) depiction of what the trading pit looked like in reality. Trading Places, 1983: [VIDEO]
bmmayer1 on Hacker News · 2021-05
In Trading Pit Hand Signals
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.