was working "night bonds" at cbot around 1990 and whenever a trader was hungry it was common to send out a clerk to "smuggle"in a sandwich & drink in their jackets. the staff at the turnstiles were generally tolerant ,altho some of them could be pricks . anyway ,one of the "big "traders "was jammed with a position and payed his clerk to pick up a package from someone outside and bring it back on the floor inside his jacket. sure enough on the way in one of the guards aks him to open his jacket .............the clerk freaks out jumps over the turnstile and makes a run for the stairs..............unfortunately his hurdling abilities were not up to much and he falls to the ground and is captured with what turned out to be a half kilo of cocaine!!! the clerk did some hard time and his mother had her mortgage paid .i never did find out the traders name .
OEX pit - CBOE (new) clerk offered $200 to pick a booger and eat it. He had to put it on the railing so that everyone could judge it for adequacy and allow him to proceed. Clerk Eats booger > crowd applauds > floor official promptly steps through the crowd and issues the clerk a $200 fine for "eating on the floor". (only pretzel rods allowed) I also recall a very large wager involving holding a Chicago phone book over the head for 45 minutes.
This cannot be a better description of how this buz is going. I wonder what alternatives day traders have, with or without a degree after this game.
We had an office in AZ with only 1 guy in it, but a lot of trading stations. Someone went to the office to check on it and the guy was living in the office, trading in his bathrobe, wandering the building in his bathrobe, had a stack of porn in the corner. His clothes were strewn throughout.