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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Rocky Mountain Int'l (OTC:RMIL former OTC:OVIS)

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To: cheese who wrote (15056)11/7/1997 2:23:00 AM
From: SuperDave  Read Replies (2) of 55532
 
TO ALL A MUST READ:

Well I believe a New ERA in internet trading has begun. Market Makers are a bit
upset that the internet has created some problems for them with all this momentum
wave trading. In my Opinion they have NOW declared WAR. With the new NASD
rule to fill between the bid and the ask the professional market makers are using that to
take down a stock price. Example: The bid is .25 & the ask is .50. A market maker
can now short at the .375 market markers selling to investors at the midpoint. Thinking
they are getting a deal investors sit back and go ALRIGHT! They get it at .375
thinking they have just outsmarted the market makers. Yeah right, In fact when the
Market maker decides they have a substainal short position they merely start filling at
the midpoint. Since the market the MMs establish buying at the midpoint redefines the
ask giving them an absolute advantage on shorting. The shareholders now dicate the
ask by buying midpoint so the market markers can now drop the ask to the last sell.
Now the price drops on buying so in a sense the buying at midpoint actually the
investors buying are shorting the stock price. Well when the ask drops the MMS
readjust and drop the bid. Good grief double impact. This continues as shareholders
continue to buy in at the midpoint. Then they drop the ask again and soon to follow is
the bid. now it is at an ask of .25 and a bid of .125. Internet folks quickly see the
plummet in price and sell to cut their losses. The MM are then able to cover the short
positions making TON of money when actually not one was selling to begin with when
it all started to happen. I have watched this happen all day today and all weekas a
matter of fact.

One reason is the midpoint does not cause the Market makers to raise the price. Take
a .09 - .10 stock they short sell at .10 and cover at .09 for a 10% profit across the
board. Now if they can get a market sell of .08 then they make 20%. Now the Market
Maker which makes the market can now let the investors buying in at the mispoint
define the ask price so now the market makers can just take the ride to the bottom on
the mid point buying.

Market markers know when people sell, they rarely sell between the bid and the ask
so the margin is in fact in their favor.

The only way I was advised to stop this is to not place limit orders at the mid point in
buying but place sell orders at the midpoint thus bringing up the bid and limit to buy at
the ask causing the ask to raise. This is exactly the opposite of what is happening now.
Please understand you cannot beat a Market Marker at their own game. Market
Markers set the market and investors buying in can now effectively affect the price
buying in at the midpoint. Here is a perfect wxample:

WNCR - Transaction Log
09:05:39 8 ................... 0.687 - 0.937 .... 12:11:02 8 ..... 1000 .. 0.930 ... Buy
09:56:55 8.....10000 .. 0.812 ... Buy .... 12:12:24 8 ..... 1500 .. 0.900 .. Buy
10:00:29 8 .... 7000 .. 0.812 ... Buy .... 12:13:05 8 ..... 1500 .. 0.900 ... Buy
12:01:12 8 ... 15000 .. 0.937 ... Buy .... 12:15:05 8 ..... 3000 .. 0.870 ... Buy
11:14:31 8 ................... 0.750 - 0.937 .... 12:16:45 8 ..... 5000 .. 0.937 ... Buy
11:25:26 8 .... 2000 .. 0.937 ... Buy .... 12:17:04 8 ..... 5000 .. 0.875 ... Buy
11:31:53 8 .... 2000 .. 0.937 ... Buy .... 12:20:38 8 ..... 1000 .. 0.930 ... Buy
11:33:30 8 .... 3000 .. 0.812 Sell ? .... 12:22:00 8 ..... 1000 .. 0.930 ....... Buy
11:37:53 8 ................. 0.812 - 0.937 ... 02:13:03 8 ... 20000.. 0.900 ... Buy
11:38:41 8 .... 1500 .. 0.930 ... Buy ... 02:13:37 8 ... 20000.. 0.870 ... Buy
11:42:14 8 ..... 5000.. 0.930 ... Buy ... 02:13:53 8 ... 20000.. 0.900 ... Buy
11:42:20 8 .... 6500.. 0.937 ... Buy ... 02:30:34 8... 20000.. 0.870 ... Buy
11:43:04 8 .... 6500 .. 0.875 ... Buy ... 02:30:47 8 ... 20000.. 0.900 ... Buy
11:44:04 8 ..... 1000 .. 0.900 ... Buy ... 02:33:37 8 .............. 0.812 - 0.875
11:44:04 8 ..... 1000 .. 0.900 .. Buy ... 02:36:50 8 .... 1000.. 0.870 ... Buy
11:46:43 8 ....... 500 .. 0.930 ... Buy ... 02:36:50 8 .... 2500.. 0.870 ... Buy
11:58:33 8 ..... 7000 .. 0.930 ... Buy .... 02:37:21 8 .............. 0.437 - 0.875
12:00:38 8 ..... 5000 .. 0.870 ... Buy .... 02:37:35 8 .... 1200 .. 0.870 ... Buy

Other stocks this is happening to is NETZ, IKAR (This one really got NAILED totally
today on midpoint buying & shorting), and a few more. The only thing that saved
IKAR was buying at the ask which took it back up from $1.28 to $1.62 - $1.71.
Unbelieveable at what I am watching happen here this week.

Basically the MMs are sending out a message either buy at the offered ask or pay the
piper. I can produce numerous stocks that when solid buying came in the price fell and
not one sell. But because of the midpoint this stock price fell an eventually the price
plummeted on very few sells. Since most investors do not watch trading logs they really
have no idea what they are doing to their investment buying at the midpoint. The MMs
are treating midpoint buying as a sell even if it is a buy.

This is just my opinon however I can show you many stocks that this happened to
today. Minimal selling but major midpoint buying and BOOM the stock got nailed.

I could be totally wrong and off base here but the trading logs clearly show what I am
saying.

GaBard THANKS CHEESE
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