21.   I was running the trading desks.

22.   In the makeshift trading room, pages of white paper were taped to the cubicle dividers, identifying different trading desks for corporate, mortgage and government bonds.

23.   It felt as if we are in the middle of the trading desk at Goldman Sachs.

24.   Jett, who described himself as opposed to racial preferences just as his father had been, said the trading desk was the meritocracy he desired.

25.   Late last year, Lehman moved its foreign exchange and fixed income trading desks from Hong Kong and Singapore to Tokyo.

26.   Last summer, it made a big breakthrough when U.K. regulators allowed the Germans to open lines to trading desks in London, the center of European futures trading.

27.   Most securities firms had only a few people on trading desks.

28.   My trading desk then calls a sales trader, who calls the position trader who calls the floor broker, and then the floor broker goes to the specialist.

29.   NASDAQ has no trading floor like the New York Stock Exchange, operating instead through a network of computer screens at trading desks throughout the country.

30.   Most trading desks were thinly staffed as many participants extended the Thanksgiving holiday to a four-day weekend.