But market participants warned that if customer orders do not pick up in a few days, prices could drop.

After the customer order has been placed and the prices have changed, the broker could sell his position for a profit.

Shirts are $6 or $7 apiece if a customer orders 100.

Only about 10 percent of the action represented customer orders, they said.

Now, Japan is looking to create customer orders from chaos.

"The market is just moving on whatever customer orders come in."

Those customer orders have proved to be among the most influential in the market.

Their "signature" is a very large portion of whatever the customer orders.

The company began taking customer orders in the fall of 2006.

But if someone wanted to disguise the fact that a large customer order had never actually been placed, there was no reason to be suspicious.