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To: uu who wrote (10458)	3/3/1998 2:27:00 PM
From: DavidG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25814

Addi, Does anyone know what do BidSize and AskSize mean? And how can one interpret them? So for example lets say the BisSize is 10 and AskSize is 40, does this mean more people are buying or more people are selling? Less people bidding on stock then wanting to sell stock. Usually a good indicator of movement in that direction. Expect bid to drop when bidsize goes to 1 and/or ask size goes to 1000. DavidG

To: uu who wrote (10458)	3/3/1998 5:14:00 PM
From: Jock Hutchinson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25814

Addi: LSI's NYSE specialist is a superb game player with the size of bid ask postings. Quite often he will move the stock(i.e. the bid ask) by half a point without even buying or selling any stock. He does this for a variety of reasons, including to "pick off" newly posted limit orders. Having traded this dog on a day to day basis for the past four years, I can tell you that the bid ask for LSI is virtually meaningless. However, in broad general terms I will tell you that any daily price differences that occur when LSI is not in synch with the other semis generally is corrected in that same day.