Enter a world where pandemonium reigns and reckless ambition rules: the trading floors in the financial canyons of downtown Chicago. Here, men use strange hand signals to buy and sell everything from pork belly to soybeans while wearing the weight of our complex economy on their shoulders - along with their neon jackets. It's a physical, bruising place, one where a slight gain creates heroes, rich beyond what their high school educations should ever afford. But the wrong move on the wrong day can ruin lives. At a time when millions have lost fortunes in the fickle stock market and fear abounds about the faltering financial system, FLOORED is a gripping, honest look behind the curtain of the trading floor that few have ever seen

Floored

Filmmaker James Allen Smith spent much of his childhood in Germany; his parents met while they were both serving in the military in the 1960s, and he lived the nomadic life of an Army Brat, rarely settling in one place for very long. While his older brother followed his parents example and joined the Navy, James pursued a career in the arts, and as he grew older he came to realize how little he really knew about his family.