THEIR passion notwithstanding, gold bugs tend to be small-time investors.

The Clob dispute is about people like Mr. Chia, small-time local investors who bought their first Malaysian shares a decade or more ago.

The fund will give small-time investors access to commodities investments that have historically been available only to the very well-heeled and sophisticated.

The result has been to gradually diminish the influence of small-time investors and independent producers, who find it increasingly difficult to survive on Broadway.

Potential buyers ranged from suburban couples looking for pied-a-terre in the city to small-time and serious investors interested in buying apartments and renting them out until the market turns around.

The film, which was released in 1937, is about Wall Street, fraudsters, stock manipulation, and the financial ruin of the innocent small-time investor, so fairly pertinent for our times.

Ms. Patrick said she was not concerned that the exchange lacked an institutional base, and that most investors were small-time Polish investors, many of them speculators.

"I think they're small-time investors," he remembers telling his associate, Michael J. Browne.

The campaign itself has focused on unemployment, health care, schools and the feverishly volatile Greek stock market, which boomed last year but has since plummeted, enraging small-time investors.

What They're Asking Tudor City has long attracted first-time buyers and small-time investors with its small apartments, easy co-op boards and cheap prices.