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To: Tom Allinder who wrote (2699)	10/10/1999 7:05:00 PM
From: SusieQ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2942

Wow that would be nice, will be waiting for the answer Tom :) Susie

To: Tom Allinder who wrote (2699)	10/10/1999 7:16:00 PM
From: star56	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2942

Is the market closed tomorrow?

To: Tom Allinder who wrote (2699)	10/10/1999 10:12:00 PM
From: carromill	Respond to of 2942

IT is a FACT! but only for ON-Line Brokers... Its called Liquid shares (committed). Any other shares are non-committed. The non-committed shares are not borrowed from your Brokerage ! Ownership is "assumed" by the Market Makers processing the Orders from any licensed broker whether off-shore,in canada or any other location that has no laws for "shorting"n "borrowing" un-committed shares to buy and sell as their own..Particularily in the same market day span.(as long as those brokers are in good standing...A lot of Criminals are) However, believe it or not, all committed shares "tallies" are reflected on the data screen of the primary MM....and the only safe-guard in-place for such goings-on is A RED-FLAG type activity developes should "committed" share count including the ones in all MMs inventory, at that moment exceed the (public share count designated by the T/A) limit on record! Help reduce the un-committed availabilty by "committing your holdings at all times GTC ...

To: Tom Allinder who wrote (2699)	10/10/1999 10:23:00 PM
From: carromill	Respond to of 2942

Another analogy: If you park your car on the street overnite and in the morning you come back to get it , in the same spot you left it....You have one obvious clue if it has been used while you were out of sight.....that is if you had recorded the odometer the nite before! Unfortunately, stocks don't have an odometer, except the CERTS you have in your possession (which is not normal for today's traders)