Alfred Valle

Review of Chicago Board of Trade

The reason I "visited" here was that for 28 years ...

The reason I "visited" here was that for 28 years I was an employee. I worked on the trading floor as a member of the CBOT Market Reporting staff. When CME and CBOT merged (2008) I was retained and finished out the rest of my years there (March 2018). I don't have enough room or time to tell of all the people I've known, all the market conditions I've worked through, all the world events I've witnessed here (I watched the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center September 11th, 2001 on giant monitors from the CBOT Financial Floor). I also witnessed the evolutionary decline of the "open outcry market", as it converted to an electronic on-line platform. It is now a "ghost town", a gigantic monument of a very important time in the history of commerce.