Chicago Trading Floor Gets Second Act Powering AI-Led Future
Traders in the Eurodollar options pit at the Chicago Board of Trade in Chicago on Dec. 31, 2011.
Photographer: Tim Boyle/BloombergPaul R.T. Johnson still remembers the days when thousands of traders piled onto the Chicago Board of Trade’s famous trading floor wearing colorful jackets and shouting orders for everything from corn to interest-rate derivatives.
“You could literally ride up the escalator, and the hair on the back of your neck would stand up, you could feel the energy,” he said.