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To: VeloSpeed who wrote (9894)	6/25/1999 9:53:00 AM
From: Christiaan McDonald	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21142

Velo, I got "foxed" by a market maker several years ago. I wanted to buy about 100,000 shares of a stock and I started buying 5,000 at a time, carefully timing the buys so that I would NOT run the stock up. After about 3 buys, my broker called me and said her market maker had called her and wanted to know how many shares I really was interested in buying. The mm told her that if he knew, then he could get me a better price. I said, o.k., tell him to get me 50,000 shares. He did, he got me the 50,000 shares at about 1/4 more than I had been paying. Learned a good lesson I haven't forgot. DON'T SHOW YOUR HAND TO ANYBODY, NOT EVEN YOUR BROKER. Last year we owned 100,000 shares of PLLL, a very thinly traded stock. We got nervous and decided to sell (good thing). We sold very carefully without dropping the stock even 1/8. Takes several days to do that but it's worth it. Ken