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Article: Trading in Green Acres: Must trading only take place in the middle of a dog-eat-dog urban jungle? One firm has come up with a novel solution: Move to the country.
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- February 1, 2001
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A group of 12 veteran pros is taking a simple down-to-earth approach to the trading rat race. Their secret: Location,location, location.
The group includes former floor traders, brokers and specialists, as well as seasoned, over-the-counter traders. This daring dozen are blazing a pioneering trail of trading, a kind of homesteading on Wall Street. They have exchanged their former high stress-filled trading floors for pastoral calm and sometimes shorter working days. They now work out of an advanced, high-speed electronic trading firm in Wayne, Pa. - far from the maddening crowds.
The firm, e-Knox Trading, in the shadows of Valley Forge National Park, is ...