| Hand signals are used extensively on Mercantile Exchange floors for many purposes. |
| They were developed over the last 20 years as a tool for those trading futures to rapidly communicate orders and fills back and forth between the pit and the order desk. |
| They are also used within the pits to convey and confirm specifics of a trade such as quantity, month, etc. |
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