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- From: rvp2f@Virginia.EDU (Prasad Polamraju)
- Subject: Re: NASDAQ brokers: Can they cheat on orders?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.212632.3236@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Keywords: Nasdaq
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:26:32 GMT
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- In article 33978 of misc.invest (tcbd@cbnews.cb.att.com) wrote
- >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.
-
- This is NASDAQ smallcap issue called Scorpion Technologies. It had
- a 1991 earnings of 55 cents per share. They make software for
- converting rasterscan images to vector graphics (something like that).
- They were sued in 1992 by another software company and the stock went
- down from a high of around $7 to 3/4. I bought a block of shares
- around $1 on this brokers advice. Last week when my broker asked me
- permission to sell it, it moved from 3/4 to 1 1/4. The next day I checked it
- had a high of 2 1/4, low and settle 1 3/4. But when I called my broker
- he told me he sold the stock the previous day at 1 1/4. Is there anyway
- to know if the price I got is the price he sold it for. I read newspaper
- articles of brokers selling/buying on their own account ahead of their
- customers to skim part of the price.
-
- The broker in question is part of Corporate Securities group which
- seems to specialize in small stocks, trading, marketmaking, underwriting,
- etc. He also adviced me to buy another small NASDAQ stock last year
- Staff Builders(Home Health Care) at 1 5/8. Currently it moved up
- above 3.
-
- thanks for all the comments so far on the issue.
-
- Prasad Polamraju
- rvp2f@virginia.edu
-