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[Online Stock Trading] Most of us have heard about the controversial uses of derivatives, the debates between whether they should or should not be regulated, and the amount of oversight there should be on them. Derivatives are the complex financial instruments that contributed to not only the collapse of the giant insurer AIG but also 3 of the largest bankruptcies in American history - WorldCom, Enron, and Global Crossing.

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