You obviously never stood in an open outcry trading pit.

Below is a three-story mural, produced by John Warner Norton in 1930, showing a bare-breasted Ceres with corn and wheat at her feet, on display at the Chicago Board of Trade Building. It can be found in Mary Lackritz Gray's 'A Guide to Chicago's Murals' (2001).

Pictured here is our esteemed owner, Billy, along with Pat Campbell and Joe Gibbons, some of the old regulars who you may recognize on opening day in the Chicago Board of Trade! Looks like he just earned his first $100! 🤩#JackSchwartzImporter #Cigars #105Years

This photograph, taken on May 31, 1973, shows the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). The CBOT was established in 1848 and is the oldest futures and options exchange in the world. It can be found at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C.

Kevin Deandre and Obama at $CBOE (via $META)

Chicago Board of Trade

Why I prefer trading over real estate? There’s always a bid and an ask. You might hate the price, but you’re never guessing. Liquidity isn’t just financial — it’s psychological. Silence drives me crazy. I remember the pit answering immediately when someone asked: “What’s here?”

Chicago Board of Trade as Sears Tower rises, 1973 (from Facebook)

Dec. 24, 1925: Christmas carols are sung on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade at the close of trading.

The world's first Futures exchange was established in Osaka in the late 17th century, the Dōjima Rice Exchange. As with all future trading, the better predictions you could make the more money you would make, and in old Japan rice was the mother of all commodities...

Bring back the floor! Decentralize the liquidity no systemic risk and personal responsibility. Transparency of Price and counterparty. Time to bring it back. @CMEGroup

🚨 Trading changed forever when it went digital. From open outcry to global electronic markets – do you know what drove the shift? Featuring: Alison Coughlin and Tom Crane (CME Group) Moderated by Amir Rashad (Timber Exchange) ▶️ Watch now → https://t.co/b5uLjmWwFC

Great shot of the old CBOT

Quick math, open outcry, and the evolution of trading. @tastyliveshow's Jenny Andrews reflects on her time in the Cboe OEX pit and how automation changed the game — but didn’t replace the unique advantages of the trading floor. Join Jenny, Liz Dierking and Cathy Clay on Cboe's

If you’ve never heard what the open outcry pits were REALLY like… buckle up. 600 traders. No computers. Pure adrenaline. Chuck Proctor breaks down life on the spreads desk at the Chicago Board of Trade. Full episode now live — link in bio 🔗

https://t.co/E8EDxjedk4 My boyfriend that had relocated to the downtown Loop/Lincoln Park area, also has a job at the Chicago Board of Trade for some very rich seat owners. Now looking back, what are they really trading, what are the 'commodities'🤔

Wall Street trading floor hand signals explained.

On the eve of AFM Tech Day, Connamara Technologies hosted a wonderfully relaxed Happy Hour at a legendary Chicago venue - the Ceres Cafe on the ground floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. For decades, this was the watering hole of the traditional floor traders.

A new trading pit is opened at the #KansasCity Board of Trade. Grain futures trading has been conducted for years, but now in a new building.

Ceres: The Faceless Statue on Chicago's Board of Trade Bob forced Shrog to climb the Board of Trade to see the statue of Ceres, the goddess of grain, up close. Shrog was understandably out of breath and asked why Bob would do such a thing. Bob explained with hilarious results.