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To: shades who wrote (59344)	4/24/2006 3:15:59 PM
From: Travis_Bickle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

The only trading floor I've been on is the one where you trade a $20 bill for a lap dance. It is considerably more honest than the others.

To: shades who wrote (59344)	4/24/2006 3:32:28 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

He's selling you BS and you're buying it, so it must be truth. I'm sure more than one Big Swinging Richard thinks the Sun comes up because they demand it to, but the fact that the Sun comes up every day doesn't make their delusions accurate. To assume that the activity of being the middleman, in this case the specialist or MM, who is buying and selling stock is somehow different from buying and selling any other good in which there is an active market on both sides, that the simple laws of supply and demand can be suspended if you happen to be the one "making the market". I don't know if you have much experience setting prices, but I'm sure you know enough to know that you can set them at any damned place you want, but if you want to transact you have to set them where the market resides. This rule isn't suspended for paper assets.