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To: mr.bill who wrote (907)	9/26/1998 9:38:00 PM
From: Investor2	Respond to of 3661

Hi mr. bill. I'll pass on additional information as I get it. So far, this is it: here is quote.com's definition of a filtered trade What are filtered trades? "Sometimes exchanges send out incorrect prices. Usually they will then send out correction messages. We process exchange correction messages and auomatically update the chart to reflect these changes. Sometimes, however, the exchange will not send out a correction message. In these cases, our software automatically scans all trades (including bid and ask prices) and makes a determination that a particular price is "bad". Rather than removing this "bad" price entirely from the screen, we draw it in a faint yellow color on our bar charts. Many times this "bad" price is simply a late trade that has not been marked as "late" by the exchange. " Best wishes, I2