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To: dvdw© who wrote (2291)	12/31/2007 7:56:45 AM
From: dvdw©	Respond to of 3821

On, Drying it UP. Upon further review of the reporting period, our market now has 71 fewer companies than last year at the same time. Valuations continue to be arbitrated by algorithm, there are no market prices. Scarcity increasing, trade systems being more aggressive against a diminishing supply. Remember the data from the Naz for Short open interest at Dec 14th was running 40% of all trade volume, its even worse 8 trading days later, since the holiday weeks volume, dropped the moving avg of vol again. This; during a week when market participants were banking losses to offset capital gains. Even in this loss centric week, supply was drying up. Its my view from the message board forensics operations I conduct, that the market is one big shennanigan. The normal trade mouthpieces are rationalizing as best they can excuses for this or that TA all to the purpose of hiding from the fact that supply is drying up. Even the proxy products of rationalization are being affected. The public still controls +70 % of all stock, yet the public as Customers of the broker complex are being denied market prices by the mal intent of broker dealer traders operating to purpose. Some suggest privately that the lower prices are artificially low to allow the really big Broker dealers to execute buying of every share they can, for China inc... who has accumulating all those US Dollars. Others posture that hedge funds driven by political affiliations are attempting to implode values in order to seize the product of the implosion..for themselves...what a mess. No matter, if some combination of the two are at work, either way we have inertia and no market pricing. If traders persist in selling the same 100 shares fractionally over and over, what does it mean to an investor? It means nothing at all, accept host systems are sustaining themselves on the fees generated by the purposeful actions of a select group of clients. Further characterizing the fact that price remains the artifact of prevailing systems intent. A subject we know quite a bit about. The gross NAZ data is positioned along side our own complex which we monitor under MM1 and MM2. That data is clearly marching in lock step trend, with the bigger complex. Demonstrating in effect, that inertia is the prevailing metric of this trade, operating to its purposes, without respect for any fundamental investor characterization. Now more than ever, as we enter the new year, participate fractionally and at market. The fact that no one locates anything isn't your problem, it is theirs, and they alone bear responsibility for the shenannigan that conducts itself in the manner it does.