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[da_cheif]

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[selecto]

Grasso was worth every penny.

[traderpaul]

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In 1974 , my broker had to call the marketmakers to buy or sell an option. CBOE was not born yet. This alone will make that book so outdated it it not even funny.....It is like compareing an ipod to a record player.....Yeah right nothing has changed.....They both make musc.....

[da_cheif]

http://www.siliconin...?msgid=21965890

In 1974 , my broker had to call the marketmakers to buy or sell an option. CBOE was not born yet. This alone will make that book so outdated it it not even funny.....It is like compareing an ipod to a record player.....Yeah right nothing has changed.....They both make musc.....

no ********

> Ney wrote over 20 years ago, a time when a 750 Dow was high and today's volumes were beyond imagining. Some of his material is dated, and must be read in the light in which it was written. But the main premise of his books is still true: that the specialist exists not to ensure the free and orderly trade of stock in a particular company, but to fatten upon the innocence and ignorance of the small investor.<

[arbman]

The biggest advantage of the specialists or market makers is that they can borrow much more on their collateral or own accounts, something like 1:10. The market makers borrow directly from the Fed and I see no borrowing whatsoever in the secondary market right now, they are selling and distributing, easily, no gaming, no hidden huge leveraged positions here, just plain selling...

Compare this to the last May's, last September's, last November's, last January's and see the difference, they are easily selling, no discounting or room making for funds or fighting against the bears or anything, plain selling... Did I say plain selling? Selling...

Here's the securities lending...

When this chart spikes higher, I will make sure to get my shorts out their way...

- kisa

Edited by kisacik, 28 February 2007 - 08:02 PM.