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To: The Vet who wrote (83950)	8/28/2008 7:14:55 PM
From: ggersh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

"However if they where "hedging in advance" and then using the market weakness so created to force the long speculators out of their positions then the banks would be profiting all the way down at virtually no risk" Which is how all the IB's make their money on the trading desks... One other scenario is that all the clearing houses pulled the (leverage)money from traders...which is a story going around in Chitown.....