With the rise of the bond markets, the equity salesmen and traders had been reduced by comparison to small-time toll takers.

He was most recently a defenseman for HC Ambrì-Piotta in Nationalliga A. David currently works on Wall Street as an institutional equity salesman.

Mr. Nolan, 27, is an institutional equity salesman in New York with Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, an investment bank.

"Today was a futures-led decline," said Chip Mesics, an equity salesman at Kidder Peabody International.

Within a few years, he established himself as a rising star, first as a high-powered equity salesman, then as a computer whiz.

Mr. Dolan, 31, is an institutional equity salesman in Boston for Cowen & Company, a securities brokerage.

He is an institutional equity salesman for the Analytic Systems Corporation in Wilton, Conn.

Mr. Raymond, 29, is an institutional equity salesman with Cantor Fitzgerald, a stock brokerage in New York.

A pair of friends, Joe Rivello of Maspeth, Queens, and Timothy Irons of Midtown, who are institutional equity salesmen, took the other two wingbacks.

Ms. Regan, 25 years old and a graduate of Goucher College, is a junior equity salesman for Alex. Brown & Sons in New York.