Red Ring: The Archaic Survival of Physical Commodities Trading

In an era where algorithms execute millions of trades per microsecond in dark server rooms, a glaring anomaly survives in the heart of global finance. The London Metal Exchange (LME) still determines the daily global price of copper, zinc, and aluminum using an archaic, physical open-outcry system known as "e;The Ring."e;This book explores the bizarre survival of this intensely human financial rit...