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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (57305)	12/28/1999 10:06:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

OK Warren B. LOL! eom. Ruff

To: Jon Koplik who wrote (57305)	12/28/1999 10:18:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Lets educate or bring our fellow thread mate into the 21st century. Jon a post from Yahoo is where you should start, imho. MM Manipulation at its finest by: themailboxatragingbull (26/M/Plano, TX) 12/28/1999 8:57 pm EST Msg: 76969 of 77013 Anyone that thinks MM manipulation doesn't take place is gravely mistaken. If you watch LII screens along with the time and sales you'll notice that very often the MM activity causes the selling rather than vice versa. However, some argue that MM's merely fulfill the "house" function of order matching and they just wish to make the spread on a stock. That may be the case on many stocks but on the high flier stocks they end up getting caught short and have no choice but to drive the price back down so they can cover before allowing the stock to rocket again. And how often do we see the same MM on the inside bid and offer just scalping the spread. NEVER. They're either on the buy side or the offer depending on which way they want the stock to go. The most obvious evidence is to watch afterhours trading and how much it differs from the regular market. Afterhours is relatively free of manipulation (although that is changing damnit!) and the difference in trading activity is obvious if you trade both sessions like I do. Given the above and much more, I think you'd have to have your head in the sand to believe that MM's don't have an interest in manipulating stock price movements to their advantage.

To: Jon Koplik who wrote (57305)	12/29/1999 11:11:00 AM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

MM Situation by: Flooor_Trader 12/29/1999 10:54 am EST Msg: 77564 of 77597 Refer to my earlier pre market post. Only change is that the MM's were not able to generate any new sell volume when they tried to take it down a bit. There are NO shares available for these guys to cover...none! Serious panic is now setting in with the MM's, they have completely bungled the QCOM markup..not understanding that you cannot short to supply a stock like this and then wait to cover at a large profit. Bring out the body bags.