When stocks fall, he added, today's avid investors are likely to turn into tomorrow's cautious consumers.

For the avid investor, there is a grab bag of software, newsletters and books.

Dubai has been an avid investor also in other industries that have United States ties.

Rappaport is also, increasingly, an avid investor in liberal causes, and in this context he might be called a political venture capitalist.

In other industries, American manufacturers have been some of the most avid investors abroad.

Ms. Curtis, who is retired and lives in Columbus, Ohio, is an avid investor but not a frightened one.

They said that some pension funds have recently become avid investors in oil futures.

Even while pursuing an academic career, Mr. Scholes was an avid investor.

Kurt Seelig, a retired chef turned avid investor, spent yesterday afternoon in pain, regretting that he had jumped back into the market.

An avid investor, Mr. Fuqua bought about 60 companies during his career.