It's more difficult these days to meet traders
in person and trade in the same room. It's so much easier to just form an online chat group especially with the fact that more brokers today and social media have their own chat rooms now.
In fact, I think its the rise of social media with advances in technology that makes renting an office space with other traders a difficult thing to do.
Years ago (late 90s and early 2000s), there are
arcades where someone rents out a large office with desks and computer workstations and then charges a fee for traders to use the space to do their trading...it was a dying field. Didn't last too long especially with the arrival of social media.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/trading-arcade.asp
I was part of an arcade (owner) in the 90's with six other traders. We all had met from an Omega Research Group (today its called TradeStation) and decided to setup shop (lease a warehouse apartment) that had enough room for 20 traders to support 4 monitors for each.
We setup right across from the old Seattle Kingdom. In fact, 3 guys from the original group are still members of ET today although they are
not as actively posting these days in comparison to me...I'm the last remaining active member of the original group but they'll pop up once in awhile here at ET just to start some crap here at ET with others just for the fun of it.
In fact, they were the ones that introduce me to the ET forum as a way to keep in touch when a few of us moved out of the country.
Two of them still trade together out of the Chicago Streeterville area in a leased office. Yes, they all hide very well but its
not hiding...they're just private especially with the characteristic of social media today.
Too many trolls out there.
wrbtrader
