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Re: Sell order placement help



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Ron,
Sure, send me one ticker.  I'll take a look at it.

Daniel.



Ron Warshawsky wrote:

> Daniel,   I can send you the stock's ticker, so you can check
> it. Looks like NASDAQ does not heard about SEC reform. I have a
> wide list of such a stocks right in front of me. Thanks for
> answering ----- Original Message -----
>
>      From: Daniel Martinez
>      To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>      Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 10:57 PM
>      Subject: Re: Sell order placement help
>       Are you sure your data is correct?  The spread here
>      is 1 3/4.  That's quite high.  In 1997, before the
>      market makers were forced to reform by the SEC, such
>      spreads were common.  Now it's fairly unusual.
>
>      You sell/buy by the bid/ask price.  The quoted
>      price/high/low of the day is sort of an average of
>      the bid/ask price.
>
>      Daniel.
>
>
>      Ron Warshawsky wrote:
>
>     > Symbol  Bid Ask     Last    Change  High
>     > Low         Volume
>     > STOCK 10  11 3/4 11 1/4 -1 13/16 13 11/32  10
>     > 15/16  361,700
>     >
>     > Dear list participants,
>     >
>     >  As you can see, above stock has bid price (10),
>     > which is lower than the low
>     > price of the day (10 15/16). Can you please advice
>     > me, what stock order must
>     > be used in order to sell this stock if price will
>     > drop to 10 13/16 or lower,
>     > but not at 10 (what market sell order will do).
>     >
>     > Regards and thanks a lot in advance.
>