11.   Futures traders were stunned by a government projection, released after the market closed, for a huge cotton harvest.

12.   Gesa is getting a boost as managers of IBEX-linked funds and futures traders switch from Asturiana to Gesa, fund managers said.

13.   In Chicago, futures traders already have started building the potential new demand into contracts for hog deliveries later this year.

14.   Investors and futures traders support the idea of extending trading hours, although many are skeptical about how much trading there will be.

15.   It was equivalent to the win-one-for-the-Gipper speech, only for futures traders.

16.   Leeson pleaded guilty to two charges of cheating, and the prosecution dropped nine other counts of forgery and cheating against the former futures trader.

17.   Proof of slowing growth may not be forthcoming, said Michael Marzano, a bond futures trader at Fimat Futures USA in Chicago.

18.   Right now, futures traders in photography are placing bets on the computer rather than the poor.

19.   Remember that people, whether futures traders or individual investors or market-letter writers, tend to be trend followers.

20.   Some futures traders see a silver lining to all the worries about derivatives.