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To: Scrumpy who wrote (90072)	1/20/1999 12:43:00 AM
From: musea	Respond to of 176387

(OT)Scrumpy, Thanks for the article. If the practice of the market makers manipulating the spreads is as lucrative as it seems, $900M is not much to pay to get off the hook. As an individual investor in a stock like Dell, I buy at a limit order and don't see the spread at all (it gets hidden by the rising of the stock). But the dealers are making a much larger commission, in effect pulling their commission out of my basis but not letting me account for it on my taxes. Mohan has brought up a point that irks me more as I think about it. -musea