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To: Timothy Liu who wrote (4853)1/28/1999 6:06:00 PM
From: HairBall  Respond to of 99985
 
Timothy Liu: Well, maybe trying to move the stock one way or the other, I quess...

Large spreads can inhibit short-term trades.

Regards,
LG



To: Timothy Liu who wrote (4853)1/28/1999 6:12:00 PM
From: RealMuLan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 99985
 
<<> large spreads
usually from exhaustion and volume dry up.
>>

What about too many people want to short and no people want to buy because large spread mostly hurt shorts, not longs. From my observation, even if for high volume stocks, when more people want to short it, the spread becomes large, like MU, NVLS, to name a few.