and when you indicate prices with your fingers, palms in for bids or purchases, and palms out for sales or offers. yes, people still do that by holding up the

and when you indicate prices with your fingers, palms in for bids or purchases, and palms out for sales or offers. yes, people still do that by holding up the number of fingers of the price they want. yes, its archaic. but frankly, the electronic markets tend to do really poorly in these situations. its hard to get a "real" 2-sided market in panics and all the liquidity is relly in the pits.