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Strategies & Market Trends : Jim's Nasdaq100 Special as a basket. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: James F. Hopkins who wrote (646)	5/12/1999 5:33:00 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2103

Datek also let one short a stock downtick, if one is stupid enough, or accidentally place a wrong order, to short at a day low price. A couple of months ago, I was intent to buy long in AMTD, but accidentally put a sell, and since I was using express order, so no confirmation. But as soon as I placed the order, I found out I made the mistake, so I tried to cancel, and thought I should be able to cancel it because it was at a downtick. But the order just went through in less a second. Of course, it was my own mistake not to be careful. But still this whole thing smelled fishy.