And they're obsessed with the Net. Roszman is 24, and spends his days at the Atlanta trading room of Capital Gains Inc., which offers traders technology in exchange for commissions. He's wearing a baseball cap, sweat shirt and jeans, and he's got his feet stretched over a corner of the table, in one corner of a room filled with such tables. He dips some Skoal, then spits into a Styrofoam cup. When a trade goes wild like this one, that means a margin call.
Margin calls force traders to put in cash on a losing position, or take the whole loss.
Roszman shrugs, putting on a brave front. I get margin calls all the time. A single Zak Roszman is just a lone gambler placing bets. And many thousands more traders are doing the same work from home, via modem. All rights reserved.