My boss has a friend who works for the New York Stock Exchange so we were given a private tour of the trading floor! After 9/11, NYSE stopped with the public tours so my team and I were incredibly excited. The tour was half an hour long @ 3:30 so we were able to watch the trading floor in action AND watch the market close. We spoke with a Barclays Capital trader and he explained his job to us. The trading floor isn’t as loud and crazy as I thought it’d be (like in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) because everything is automated now. Oh, and we were probably on various finance news channels, lurking in the background. The tour was really, really cool!
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- My team and I on the balcony overlooking the trading floor
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- Me!!
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- Market’s closed
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- On the “bat phone”
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