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To: Dealer who wrote (25034)	12/14/2000 2:01:40 PM
From: Dealer	Respond to of 65232

STOLEN STUFF--Are Your Stocks Trading Thinner Than You Think??? Nasdaq stock always list volume twice.. once for the buyer and once for the seller.. so if you are buying from someone who is sitting on the ask, then when you make the buy it will list your buy, and there sell of the same shares Thus nasdaq volume is always half what it actually shows..Actually to put it more acurately, the volume always shows twice what the actual number of shares which traded hands is.. for example.. if I sold you 100 shares.. the actual shares which traded hands are only 100 but nasdaq would list the buy as 100 and the sell as 100.. both buyer and seller get represented on the time and sales.. so the volume represented by this trade would show up as 200 shares