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Technology Stocks : Nokia (NOK) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rene Madsen who wrote (2939)	12/6/1999 6:26:00 PM
From: Neal davidson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

<<Any idea why Nokia doesn't trade 20 million shares on days like this? Because it's being hand-traded on the old NYSE instead of on Nasdaq as a good tech stock? <g>>> Right. On the Nasdaq, each trade is counted twice: Once when the seller sells to the market maker and again when the market maker sells to the buyer. So when Bob sells 1000 shares to Sue, it is counted as 2000 volume. Not every single transaction is handled this way, but most are, and thus Nasdaq volume numbers are always exaggerated.