Cohen was so focused on making sure that he had access to every piece of available information that he hired research traders to filter through his messages and make sure that he saw the important ones. Any time he traveled to Las Vegas to visit his parents, or to Brown University, where Cohen was on the board of trustees, or on his yearly summer vacation with Alex, an advance team of consultants made the journey ahead of him. He rented an extra room wherever he was staying and used it as a staging area where his staff re-created his trading station in such detail that he could hardly tell he
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