This just in from the Chicago Tribune [1]:

The trading floors at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange close for good in the middle of May, marking the end of an era, and the end of a movie for filmmaker James Allen Smith.

In a feature-length documentary set for release later this year, Smith aims to chronicle the vanishing life and times of the open-outcry futures trader, highlighting the clash between technology and humanity, and the personal toll of progress.

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