These speculators would include bank dealers trading for their own account and professional speculators.

In 1981, they sold the business and began trading for their own account from home, but without the high-tech equipment they now have.

The first beneficiaries were these pioneers who, trading for their own account, risked failure in the fast-moving marketplace.

The bank uses bonds and currencies, rather than derivatives, to trade for its own account.

"I should like to be able to trade for my own account during thevoyage."

Last year, the company approved his plan to start a bandwidth exchange and to trade for Enron's own account.

But Mr. Lewis said that he had traded only for his own account.

As well, he convinced the authorities to allow properly designated vessels to trade for their own account at coastal towns en route.

I traded for my own account, never did any trading for the public.

Keeping trades in-house gives the firm more information about which way stock prices are headed, data that it can use to trade for its own account.