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Originally Posted by riverboatking
trading places: why on earth do the duke brothers only have one guy working the floor on the biggest day of trading in their lives?
they're going all in to corner the market with stolen crop reports but don't think it might be worth it to have a few more ppl on the floor trading?
You can't just send more people to the exchange floor. You have to have a membership. So the Dukes only had one membership and could only send one employee. If they wanted other people to trade for them, they would have had to use employees of other firms. Don't think they would want to trust another firm to keep their plan secret.
The actual problem with the ending is that Murphy and Akroyd should not have been able to get on the floor to trade on their own behalf. I guess they could have been trading for another firm on its exchange membership, but they didn't ever indicate that (also don't think it's very easy to let someone borrow your membership).