Thanks to some new detailed commodities trading information (and actual details of the scene) I've recently received, I'll soon be updating the Trading Places piece. Executive summary: I got the process more or less correct but my numbers were off by several orders of magnitude (always a risk when working with brown numbers). There's also a bit of Hollywood License at work vis-a-vis trading circuit breakers (actually, the lack of them). Hat tip: Carl Speare.
Posted by Chris at August 4, 2003 08:04 PM