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To: Wilson Picket who wrote (37610)	11/10/2000 7:22:56 PM
From: Prognosticator	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Call your broker and say 'please place a stop-loss order on my stock'. What your broker hears is 'please take my stock from me at this reduced price, no charge, oh, and hit me with a commission too'. The Market Makers love stop loss orders, they can take the price down there for a couple of minutes just to hoover them up. I've seen it happen. I've even picked up some stock that way once, a price dip of 1/2 a point for just the block of 100 I priced at 12 1/2. That stock is now over 40. P.