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Strategies & Market Trends : Anthony @ Equity Investigations, Dear Anthony,

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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (86759)5/16/2004 6:30:35 AM
From: RockyBalboa  Read Replies (1) of 122087
 
You get the idea, its merely a cost of doing the business, amounting to perhaps less than 2% of the gains.

But it could well be that the SEC believes it prevents the brokers from acting even worse whereas the brokers think its a rather smallish payment to satisfy the feds and fend off additional proceedings...

The SEC again has to show something - in the form of successfully collected payments and can perhaps justify its budget this way. What if the SEC only pursued the worst of the scams (those ones whose fines can never be collected)... the SEC would never make the numbers.

An alternative approach for the SEC would be that they commercially exploit their own findings - they would have more incentive (they could short the stock based on their own research, much like an individual investor does) and so reap real rewards.
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