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To: Voltaire who wrote (83551)	12/3/1998 4:10:00 PM
From: Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Voltaire,..Re:.Notice how Brazil is a problem again. Hell nothing has changed in Brazil, they have to have something to kick start their AGENDA. Your view is correct, there is nothing new in Brazil but the media has to have a story. Also 6 or 8 weeks ago, a discussion existed about Brazil expanding it's trading bands on the Real, yet today the media acts like it's brand new news. Go figure. Glad you decided to continue to share your porch view. Lee

To: Voltaire who wrote (83551)	12/3/1998 4:10:00 PM
From: BGR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Voltaire, I still don't understand where the profit comes from. Can you please explain to me with a numeric example? TIA! -Apratim.

To: Voltaire who wrote (83551)	12/3/1998 4:12:00 PM
From: arthur pritchard	Respond to of 176387

Voltaire: Please check your PM...thanks

To: Voltaire who wrote (83551)	12/3/1998 8:54:00 PM
From: Chuzzlewit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

Votaire, the usual scenario in manipulating the price of a stock is a couple of market makers trade back and forth among themselves on a thinly traded issue and sucker people into either buying based on inflated prices the market makers have created, or selling based on fear or more likely the fact that the market makers can see the stop losses and get greedy. But with a hundred or more market makers, and a couple of dozen big ones involved in trading a company like Dell, that scenario just won't fly. Now multiply that problem 500 times over and then you can see how impossible it is to manipulate the market as a whole. Throw into that computerized buy and sell programs and S&P500 futures contracts and you could perhaps begin to see the problems. Besides, market makers don't have nearly enough financial strength to have the kinds of inventories you are talking about. TTFN, CTC