Firms are also apparently not blaming their losses on individual traders.

Many of the individual traders who remain have adopted relatively conservative approaches.

Retail associations can help individual traders solve crime problems.

The rules would govern compensation policies, he said, not the pay of individual traders.

Psychologists have found, for example, that among individual traders, men tend to make riskier bets than women.

Just as the previous research had shown for individual traders, the study found that male fund managers took more aggressive bets.

Previous studies found that, among individual traders, men were more likely than women to be overconfident in their abilities and thus trade too much.

This raises the question of who is responsible if the individual trader breaks the rules.

It let individual traders swap shares inside the system - without help from the big Wall Street firms.

But it's going to be hard on the individual trader.