When I worked in the pits of the Chicago Board of Trade there were two kinds of people. The analyst traders and the Buy and Sell traders. In the underlying asset pits like the Bond Pit you did one thing. Buy low, sell high. It took skill but only one skill. Timing and Presence. To be successful it didn’t take a college education or any kind of acquired skill. It took the ability to get a good buy and a good sell. In the big pits it meant building the relationships to know where to go to buy. Back then brokers would come in to the pits and buy and sell the big players. They would have huge lots and they would yell out “100 AT X price” Everyone that wanted that price would raise their hand and scream SOLD SOLD SOLD. If there were multiple people then he would dole it out. If he knew you and liked you then you would get the bigger share. If you were in the back or he didn’t like you then you got nothing unless you were the only one at that price and then legally he had to take it. It was a HUGE pit. A thousand traders. The guys with seniority were at the front. But there was a way to get attention. One, you could be a beast of a human.
Some of the most successful traders were only successful because they were Giants. People that soared over everyone. When they yelled SOLD you couldn’t miss them. Guys like this would be hired just to stand next to a big trader, hold his spot in the pit, and get everyone’s attention. There is a reason a lot of ex football players became traders. You could get paid a lot of money to stand there and learn. Using their God given skill of being huge. The other way to get attention is to throw a lot of money around. There were also those guys. The guys that put everything on the line every day. Trading millions of dollars and not afraid to burn out or go bankrupt. They would take a million dollar trade and buy it all just to make sure nobody else got a piece. The “paper” the brokers coming in, knew that some people would pay a little more just to get the trade. Feeling that a tick wouldn’t make a difference in the course of things.
Guys in the options pits thought the underlying traders were dumb thugs. Because options guys were mathematicians. They ran scripts to put out sheets that told you if this, then trade this. Relations, theories, gamma, delta and other technical terms. Options traders tended to be more quiet, a little less aggressive and liked the smaller pits. I tended to be right in the middle. Didn’t quite have the technical skills to be a great options trader. I was too risky. But I got squashed in the bond pit because I was a young newbie with only a million buck to trade. That was like going to a horse race with $5.
But it taught me a ton. I saw the different ways to trade. How to negotiate. The importance of timing, patience. When to hold and when to dump. All parts of trading assets. It helps me in domain investing still today. Many domain investors would do well in the pits, most would get squashed. But then again, most people get squashed there. Or got squashed. No more squashing because its generally gone online. You don’t get to see the screaming or tears anymore. That goes on behind the scenes now and I’m sure glad I was one of the last people that got to see it and be part of it.
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