Follows a scrappy group of commodities traders as they try to make a living trading coffee on the New York Board of Trade before electronic trading threatens to make their way of life obsolete.

The Pit looks at commodity trading on the floor of the New York Board of Trade. It examines the cutthroat world of commodity trading talking to a variety of traders about the perils and benefits of the job. It also look at how electronic trading is leading to the end of pit trading.—Shatterdaymorn