nce upon a time, if you wanted to be privy to the latest market whispers and chit chat, you needed to hang out on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange or one of the Chicago futures markets. From there, you could keep an eye on which traders were placing repeated large orders for specific stocks while figuring out who those traders were known to transact business for.
With the widespread shift of trading off exchange floors and onto desktop computers and other devices, we lost a centralized location where folks could pick up that kind of market chatter and gossip, the kind of place that has existed since stock traders met in the nave of an Amsterdam church in the 17th century to swap stakes in voyages of exploration to the spice islands.
Or did we?
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