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- From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
- Subject: Re: NASDAQ brokers: Can they cheat on orders?
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:27:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.222751.6198@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: NASDAQ
- References: <1993Jan23.153309.1854@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1993Jan23.153309.1854@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rvp2f@Virginia.EDU (Prasad Polamraju) writes:
- >Can a broker on a NASDAQ system cheat on a market/other orders?
- >I have a full service brokerage
- >account with a NASDAQ broker/market maker specializing in stocks
- >priced $5 or below. This week he called me to ask my permission to sell a
- >stock which has moved up by about 40% on 1000% increased volume. The day
- >after he confirmed the sale, the stock moved up by another 40%. Is there
- >a possibility or chance for cheating by NASDAQ brokers? Any insights and info
- >will be appreciated.
-
- Well, I assume there are crooked brokers just as there are crooks in
- all sorts of businesses.
-
- Ordinarily, I would think if the broker was trying to boost the
- price of a stock he would tell you the stock is moving up fast, and
- you should buy more before you miss out on a cheap deal. If he did
- want you to sell the stock so he could get the fees, and if he really
- thought it would move even higher, he would tell you that it moved
- up but to hold out for some more movement, and sell it then at
- higher commissions.
-
- Now if you think he quoted you a false bid on the stock check to see
- if the stock hit your bid that day. If it did, you have no evidence
- of fraud.
-
- Now it's also possible someone was manipulating the price, and the
- SEC sometimes looks into unusual stock movements, but from what you
- have said, you haven't shown any proof. This could easily be a case
- where the price was running up and you sold out in the middle
- instead of at the top. What that means is you haven't learned how
- to identify when a stock has hit its maximum, and you should also
- keep your day job :^)
- --
- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
-