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by bitlevel 2144 days ago
The film 'Trading Places' shows this in action (although they're trading on frozen concentrated orange juice prices and not oil).

Both entertaining and educational.
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novaleaf 2143 days ago
indeed. Planet Money did an analysis of the film's future trade, and it was indeed plausible and legal (then)

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/07/09/200401407/epis...

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