1.   The second is what is the position in relation to professional investors of whom there is no mention in the rules?

2.   Already, information that people once had to get from a broker, or that was available only to professional investors, is easy to find on the Internet.

3.   And more often than not, the winners are the professional investors, who have more information and more leverage with brokers than individuals.

4.   Ask professional investors how to separate the winners from losers, and you will get a lot of different answers.

5.   Ask most professional investors why they bought Sycamore Networks stock and hardly any will say it was because of the technology.

6.   At least not in the short term, according to professional investors and economists.

7.   Biderman said much of the recent borrowing appeared to have been done not by professional investors with deep pockets, but by individuals with other full-time jobs.

8.   A bigger drawback for professional investors is the small size of the assets.

9.   A recent political imbroglio underscored just why professional investors remain wary.

10.   A group of professional investors, Thrift Depositors of America, filed a lawsuit this summer challenging the planned restrictions on their activities.