Fun fact there was a guy a little over a decade ago who got drunk and traded 7m barrels of oil futures. Not dollars, barrels. He made the price of oil jump up for a short while.
But I do remember a story (on daily wtf) where a lady bought coal futures and somehow forgot or didn’t manage to sell, and a coal barge turned up in the river behind her office!
Fun fact there was a guy a little over a decade ago who got drunk and traded 7m barrels of oil futures. Not dollars, barrels. He made the price of oil jump up for a short while.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/jun/29/drunk-oil-trader-banned-fsa
Funnier Fact: they had to stack all those barrels behind the corporation’s building until they could sell them all.
::I made this up::
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Does that butt have any other fun facts up there?
The roller coaster was invented during the Hundred Years’ War as a way of launching supplies across rivers.
Disclaimer: I’m stealing these
fakefun facts from other people.Actually a oil future is basically a promise to make oil for a certain price. There are also are vegetable futures
That means the oil wasn’t produced yet
I know. I was just joshing and tossing fake facts around. 😉
But I do remember a story (on daily wtf) where a lady bought coal futures and somehow forgot or didn’t manage to sell, and a coal barge turned up in the river behind her office!
Well he was 69% of all traded volume… nice!!
Isn’t that wild?