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Non-Tech : Market Makers - What They Do and How They Do It -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbIII who wrote (135)	2/2/1999 10:02:00 AM
From: Richard L. Williams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 429

jb-- Thanks for the glossary. I guess where I draw the distinction is between a conventional, "investor" shorter, who believes that a stock is on a downbound path, and really disbelieves the company's prospects vs. a Market Maker short, who is only short because he got caught by surprise by a rapidly rising market in a stock, and really doesn't care one way or the other about the company in particular. But the MM who is short is given a very strong reason to not treat a stock fairly, is he not? How is that "making for an orderly market"? If the MM is doing all he can to avoid a financial loss with a stock, then a stock is not really subject to market forces, is it? Hmmm.... Rick