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Nice press......plus nice "account" of what transpired.
Wink...wink...
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phactor.com
A lender of a stock holds all the cards. At any time after he has lent the stock, he can call it back in; the borrower has three days to return it.
Or a marketmaker can push a stock up on little or no volume at all. One trader's story involves a Nasdaq-traded health maintenance organization called WellCare Management Group. On May 23 the trader had an order to buy 10,000 shares of WellCare, a sizable order in a stock that trades roughly 45,000 shares a day. For individuals who were looking to buy WellCare, the stock carried a dollar spread, but the inside market in the stock--that is, the price at which dealers can buy and sell--was 12 5/8 bid, 12 7/8 asked.
One of WellCare's marketmakers was Key West Securities, a year-old firm out of Fort Worth, Tex. The trader looking to buy did 3,000 shares electronically at 12 3/4. To get the other 7,000 done, she called Key West and said that she had stock to buy. It was around noon.
The Key West trader put her on hold and proceeded to take his offer price from 12 7/8 to 13, then 13 3/8, then 13 1/2. She watched him do this on her screen--it took less than 30 seconds--but the dealer never returned to the phone. "I called him again and threatened to file a complaint with Nasdaq, and he clicked the phone in my ear," she recalls. "My client ended up paying $13.47 on average for the trade." A Key West principal, Amr Elgindy, said "I have no idea what you're talking about.'' He was unable to say if he had made a market in WellCare that day. The stock closed the day at 12 1/4 bid, 12 3/4 asked. ..
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Guess deNILE [sic] isn't only a river in Egypt......
Elgindy, my Egyptian "friend"....
Sincerely,
the zpesty warden
of the Cyberian Gulag
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