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To: steve goldman who wrote (3485)	8/18/1998 8:33:00 PM
From: DGG	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 4969

Here's a question. I have lvl 2 access so I see the action and have a time/sales ticker for every print in a selected stock on my screen. Often I will see a large print, sometimes an odd amount, print outside of the spread. After a pause, sometimes with trading, I will then see another trade of the same amount at a price indicating it had gone through in the other direction. It strikes me as a spoof print, meant to get people to jump onto what looks like a high volume interest i.e. big seller/big buyer. Is it? And where are these large prints being generated? I would love some insight into this. I am fairly new to SI so forgive me if it has been addressed before.