The tiny theatre, equipped with an orchestra pit for a single musician, can accommodate an audience of just 17.

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He leaves the pit without making a single trade.

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As you would cut the peel off an apple in a single spiral, so, too, do you cut the olive from the pit.

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Instead, traders around the world will be able to buy and sell futures contracts on any of these exchanges via a single computer link, without anyone signalling a trade across the crowded floor of a futures pit.

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