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- From: wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Arthur Wouk)
- Subject: Re: NASDAQ brokers: Can they cheat on orders?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.234313.5436@colorado.edu>
- Keywords: NASDAQ
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <1993Jan23.153309.1854@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:43:13 GMT
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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.
-
- they train in a school where the first lesson is stealing hubcaps.
- tj=he second is slashing tires.
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- they were caught by the fbi last year doing a number of unsavory
- things on the trading floor.
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- when the going gets tough they turn off their phones (Oct 1987, for
- one time. and no one was even given a reprimand for that one.)
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- arthur wouk
- internet: wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu
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