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- From: tcbd@cbnews.cb.att.com (tom.c.b.davison)
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- Subject: Re: NASDAQ brokers: Can they cheat on orders?
- Keywords: NASDAQ
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.154253.14171@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 15:42:53 GMT
- 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
-
- who is the broker? what was the stock, and when was this?
- maybe someone has some more insight.
-
- they are not allowed to "cheat" - a couple (hibbard brown comes to
- mind) are alleged to "cheat".
-
- the circumstances you mention sound like there was something
- unusual going on in the stock, but you can't tell from the
- limited data you have whether this is a case of a story coming out
- on the stock on some national news service (CNBC, WSJ, ...)
- touting the stock or other good news, or "cheating".
- I would not @based only on what you have said, sounds like your
- broker might well have given you good advice - sounds like you should
- have made some good $$. Can't complain that the broker didn't
- know what was going to happen the next day.
-