Exchange Drumming 2024
12/11/2024
Children open new day of trading at Exchange Drumming Day 2024
The trading day at Euronext Amsterdam started this morning with more noise than usual! More than 150 children drummed their way across the Amsterdam trading floor during the annual Exchange Drumming Day.
Exchange Drumming is a more than 400-year-old tradition. During the Eighty Years' War, an orphan boy from Amsterdam managed to prevent an attack on the stock exchange building. As a reward, the boy was allowed to drum with other children in the building. This tradition is still very much alive within Euronext Amsterdam. Primary school pupils thus get a unique, and above all playful, glimpse behind the scenes of the stock exchange world.