Cue_M.. they call them "arcades" today. What they really are, is a $2000/month desk set-up, furnished for Traders while they view the market. Every city over 50,000 has an Arcade tucked away somewhere. The room usually has an active day trader working as master of ceremonies. If the guy is good enough, he can put on one clinic per month to help augment his income; and it works to forge a bond between the customers.
The guy that rents the Arcade, calls his desk "the office" and commutes back and forth from his office at home.
It is most common that you find the Arcade closest to your home; and then you pretend to leave your emotions at the Office as you drive home. The stuff you do in the home office is supposed to be limited to clean-up or wake-up duties.
Unfortunately, an Arcade is only slightly less stressful than someone who goes to work at a Brokerage. Some Traders say "At least at a Brokerage, the employee is not playing with his own money." No matter. At the first sign of stress you hear the rattle of pill containers all around the room. The first pill numbs the body so that it is not in a constant "fight or flight" mode. Traders say, "It lets me be me." On the way home from the Office, a second pill is taken, usually something that dampens a bipolar symptom.
Does one pill have something to do with the necessity of the second pill? Most Traders laugh and say, "I take the second pill because my wife hates me."
And that is the code around the Arcade. The first pill is called "me"-- the second is called "the other me"-- and the drug dampened condition is called "the employee."
