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To: Anaxagoras who wrote (4559)	12/16/1998 4:12:00 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8307

Yea I saw that too. I've got an overnite long hold in EGGS. Thank you tape painters!

To: Anaxagoras who wrote (4559)	12/16/1998 11:54:00 PM
From: James H. Irwin	Respond to of 8307

<<Ha! What a bunch of crap! Did you see that? That was as clear a case of painting the tape at the close that I've ever seen. With the inside spread at 20 1/16 x 20 1/8 someone stepped way outside and bought at 20 1/2 right at support/resistance so that things would look good for tomorrow and folks wouldn't notice the weak close. Lure the rubes into the tent to get hosed. Pull up a time of sales. Check it out. What a joke.>> Dear Conspiracy Theorist: now I didn't see the print but if you had any institutional or maybe even retail brokerage experience you would know that when completing an order for a customer, many brokerages will print out the purchase or sale at/or near the close and in some cases within a minute after the close...even if it may be "away from the prevailing market." So if it was a print of significant volume that was probably the case. If you see a print of 100 shares at a price away from the market then you may have a scenario where someone is trying to "manipulate" the market. If I would have seen the print then I could do a better job of being more specific. So don't get all carried away. If you think that one print is going to change the supply/demand balance for a stock that trades volume in the millions, then....