51.   Professional investors make the tough choices about when and what stocks to buy and sell and when to shift money between stocks, bonds and cash.

52.   Professional investors would still get everything they now get.

53.   Processing a securities transaction takes three days, and professional investors who traded securities on Wednesday had received electronic confirmation of their deals by Sunday.

54.   Professional investors can trade using their Bloomberg terminals, provided by Bloomberg Financial Markets, or through their Reuters computer terminals, from Reuters Holdings Plc.

55.   Professional investors such as Demirjian who like smaller companies said the weeks ahead may be unusually pleasant for some stocks that exceed earnings forecasts.

56.   Professional investors have become so skeptical of the analysts that many largely ignore the chorus of recommendations.

57.   Professional investors know from sad experience that stocks that look extremely enticing often turn out to be duds.

58.   Professional investors should be spending the time to understand this stuff.

59.   Psychology aside, fewer professional investors -- including short sellers betting against stocks -- are around at the holidays, Hirsch said.

60.   Rukeyser said professional investors often make the same mistakes generally attributed to novices.