They hope the price will leap the first day, providing quick profits.

By December 2002, the average price had leaped to $322,600.

Even on Jan. 17, when prices leaped after the air war began, that ratio was just three to two.

The price leaped as high as $36.50 the first day and has since risen to $52.75.

His price leaped to 18 to one when they got a look at him.

At the afternoon fixing in London, the price leaped $15.50 to $287 an ounce.

Last week 22.8 million shares traded, as the price leaped from $6.625 to $28.69.

In less than a day, the price of unleaded regular had leaped from $1.70 a gallon to $2.00.

We went looking through history and found that such an absence of bad days is truly extraordinary, particularly in a period when prices are leaping.

And all saw their prices leap at least 75 percent on the first day of trading.