Films by Minze Tummescheidt

Germany, Norway 2013, 30 min
by Minze Tummescheidt, Arne Hector

'What’s fantastic about trading futures today: it’s so easy, push the button, buy the bean, I’m in the market, right?' says an analyst. Originally, the basic idea behind futures was that they serve to protect producers and consumers against fluctuations in the price of raw materials. In practice, futures are bets on a future price that are traded on commodity futures exchanges. Anybody can legally participate in the huge casino of the commodity futures markets in the hope of making real profits