Given the large volume of derivative contracts currently traded OTC, this could be conservative.

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There is even a publicly traded company, Kingdom Ventures (otc: KDMV - news - people ), whose sole mission is to help faith-based organizations get bigger.

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This gem, however, traded in a nether region of the investing world called the OTC Bulletin Board, a newly popular electronic service that links marketmakers in the shares of small companies.

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On his Jan. 9 OTC Insight hotline, Jim Collins observes that the three major indices and their exchange traded funds--Spiders, Diamonds and " the Qs " --have all gained as much in the first five trading days of 2006 as they did during all of last year.

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But getting OTC derivative markets to use trading platforms is harder than getting them to clear: anything traded on an exchange can be cleared, but the converse is not true.

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