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• OPEN OUTCRY
  
  Exchange-based commodities traders shout out their buy and sell orders. When someone who shouts an offer to buy and someone who shouts an order to sell name the same price, a deal is struck, and the trade is recorded. This potentially rowdy interaction is described as open outcry.
  
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