Trading Floor Prank

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Trading floor prank. Unsubscribe from joseph singer. According to a source one amex employee used to hang the ties up. If you set foot on the trading floor with a tie especially a college tie you would get it cut off within seconds. Reutersit s april fools day and you can be almost certain that some pranks and jokes will be pulled on wall street but the pranks are nothing like they used globe icon an icon of the world globe.

A popular trick was to take a long piece of string attached to a paperclip. Nyse and cbot the prank s. The floor traders mesh jackets were also a target for pranks. Exchange floor trader wall street prank joseph singer.

Back when the floor of the nyse was jam packed a floor trader could come up behind someone with a bottle of baby powder while that person was engaged in a serious conversation. Follow our social media for behind th. One twin start s a conversation at the top of the escalator and the other twin finishes the conversation at the bottom. It involved sticking a wad of chewed up gum to the back of a trading ticket and dropping it to the floor where it would lie in wait for an unsuspecting trader who d find himself in a sticky situation.

Back when the floor of the nyse was jam packed a floor trader could come up behind someone with a bottle of baby powder while that person was engaged in a serious conversation. A lot of the trading floor pranks involve being crafty with scissors and paper. Including the nyse the cbot and the nymex. We re told it was popular to cut things out of paper and stick it on someone s.