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To: LPS5 who wrote (8640)	1/19/2001 10:14:08 PM
From: Cash	Read Replies (2) of 12617

The real question isn't whether volume will rise, it's whether the quote vendors will be able to handle the change in quote volume. As it is now, most of the prices are on 1/16th. With everyone and their brother putting in prices at 1/100, you've got a potential change in quotation volume (not trading volume) of nearly 8-fold. Even if it's only half of that, that's an ENORMOUS increase in bandwidth. If you think it's hard to find a quote vendor that can keep up with L2 quotes now, wait until after decimalization. And if you're currently using L2 on a dial-up line, I'd scramble to get something with more bandwidth. I wonder if anyone has done the math to determine the potential bandwidth increase coming. Either NASDAQ or the quote vendors.

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