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To: Todd Reichardt who wrote (14737)	2/4/2001 8:10:44 AM
From: Steve Grabczyk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18928

Hi Todd: Maybe "manipulation" was too strong a word. What Bud said was "I have no idea what is going to happen to the market short term...and I have no idea if this person's prediction is going to be correct..but one of the free site's author said last weekend (paraphrased)..If the Fed cuts .50, look for the big guys to put out some negative comments for a couple of days so they can take the market down, and get themselves and their customers, in at lower levels." I missed the fact that he had paraphrased from another site. Just wanted to be precise. Who can say what causes the market to swing one way or another? What can be said (and I'm paraphrasing Lichello here) is that AIM doesn't care which way a price moves. It's ready in any case. The tautology in the market is that any and all of 3 things can happen to a stock's price over any given time frame: Up, down and/or no change. AIM is designed to take advantage (or not react lemming like) to all 3 possibilities in an appropriate manner to your position. The algorithm handles it. Regrads, Steve One thing I have learned over the last 15 months is that