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LOL... it's a good idea : ) eom
Thanks Arch,
Yes, it was a nice double : ) But I can't take full credit for it... I got it as a tip from an online friend with whom I trade investing ideas. Most of my holdings are longer term, but I'd love to get better at trading short term.
Have you all ever looked at GEMM?
Sara
Bird,
"Matt, how about allowing us to select from multiple Signatures for signing off on posts?"
How do you do that?
Sara
marty,
I tell you one of the problems out here... this was told to me a executive I use to report to. He lives in a very well to do area. His kids are in a school with very few kids per teacher... yet he lives less than 15 mins away from where I live. Why you ask? Because the parents of that school have fund raisers each year... and I"m not talking about selling cookies. They raise big money and hire extra teachers, class room materials, etc. And I know across the hill in some very poor neighborhoods, conditions are really bad... i.e. school building broken down and in need of repair. The system is suppose to provide equally for all kids, but does not.
And I think you're right, schools pay way too much for admin and way to little for things that will directly help the kids. And, teachers and administrators both put way too much into special programs and neglect the basic, reading, writing, and math. IMO if you make the kids strong in the basic, they can go almost anywhere from there.
Sara
Hi Arch,
Been following the board for a few days... nice atmosphere here. I wanted to also say something about LRCM losing steam right now, but didn't want my first post to be challenging someone. I bought LRCM at .017 and sold at .0375. But I think it's worth keeping on radar.
Take care,
Sara
SirVinny,
For one thing, there's been not enough funding for years. Examples, my kids have been in classes with as many as 35 students or more. The beginning of this year, my oldest son started classes at the local high school and some classes did not even have seats/desks for all the kids... they sat on window sills. Years ago when I lived in Southern CA, I sent all my kids to private school. They got a great education while there. I got weekly reports as to their behavior and performace so that if there were any problems I knew right away. My kids where honor students at that school. There were many extra curricular activities in which my kids (and most kids at that school) participate in, such as Karate, Drama, Music, Dance. When my older girls moved into junior high school/public school, things went immediately down hill. My oldest daughter actually finished in continuation school. But when she went onto college, she was again an A student. These are just a few examples, I could go on and on.
Sara
ASTN Contractual Partners
Re: MST2000 - Contractual Partners?
by: erltprl (M/OKC) 06/01/01 11:41 am EDT
Msg: 118068 of 118095
http://www.nasdaq.com/asp/quotes_sec.asp?symbol=ASTN`&selected=ASTN
http://realtimefilings.nasdaq.com/edgar_conv_html/2001/02/12/0000927356-01-00017 7.html
UTTC has also integrated the following trade order management systems and national clearing firms:
Trade Order Management Systems
. Belzberg Financial Markets and News International, Inc. is a supplier of global Internet trading solutions, whose gateways process millions of shares on a daily basis for many of the large brokerage houses in North America.
. SunGard Institutional Brokerage, Inc. provides integrated information technology solutions for financial services. SunGard Financial Networks provides automated execution of equity trades, with eVWAP to be set up as one of its venues.
. AutEx(R), a Thomson Financial Company, is a provider of automated trade execution. Through AutEx, eVWAP will be available to additional order management systems, including Antares, MOXY, IDEE, LandMark, Predator, Open Trader, Charles River Development, Traders Console, and IMS5.
Clearing Firms
. Banc of America Securities, LLC . Bear Sterns & Co., Inc.
. Broadcort Capital Corp. (a subsidiary of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.)
. Correspondent Services Corp. (a subsidiary of Paine Webber Group, Inc.)
. Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. . DB Alex.Brown LLC
. Jefferies & Co., Inc.
. Goldman Sachs & Co.
. Legg Mason Wood Walker Inc.
. Lehman Brothers Inc.
. Pershing Division of Donaldson,Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation
. US Clearing Corporation.
When UTTC management has determined that a sufficient number of appropriate users are prepared to actively participate in eVWAP trading, UTTC's customer relationship team will orchestrate a more sustained increase in order flow from those users.
On October 30, 2000, the SEC approved the extension of the eVWAP pilot until November 30, 2001. Effective February 1, 2001, the PHLX filed with the SEC a revised eVWAP fee schedule providing for more competive pricing of all eVWAP trade types. The revised fee schedule was effective immediately upon filing.
Ashton has an agreement with a third party to develop an interactive central limit book for a non-equity securities marketplace. The system would be licensed to the third party and Ashton would be entitled to certain cash payments and an equity interest in the third party. Ashton has developed the system prototype and the third party is in the process of evaluating the market receptivity to the product. Management believes that this approach will enable it to reduce the costs and risks associated with the development effort of the more demanding central limit order book
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system for equities. Upon completion of the central limit book system, it would be modified and enhanced for use on a global basis.
http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=4687979&tid=astn&sid=4687979&...
Posted as a reply to: Msg 118014 by MST_2000
"No one is more incensed than renowned VC Donald Valentine, who backed Yahoo and Cisco: "The new company is not the customer," he says. "The bank's customer is the institutional investor. The victim is the small company that needs money." "
http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=202138
Sara
What does any of that have to do with Fred's background? For example:
"Fred's background: links provided
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr16842.htm"
Not one mention of Fred or ASTN in that link.
Also... Warning: You at high risk to click on a link to anyone's personal website as they can grab your IP and ISP information.
Sara
co principals salaries as of 3/31
by: kcmillpe 06/01/01 09:10 am EDT
Msg: 117992 of 118063
Officers [Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay
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Fredric Rittereiser, 63
Chairman, CEO $62.5K
Arthur Bacci, 41
Pres, COO, Director 185.0K
Marc Gresack, 44
Pres, Universal Trading Technologies Corp. (subsidiary) 4.3K
Matthew Saltzman, 40
Pres, Electronic Market Center, Inc. (subsidiary) --
Fred Weingard, 47
Exec. VP, CTO 325.1K
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Mar-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc..
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salaries for the top echelon are low. personal wealth is clearly tied to the stock performance.
http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=4687979&tid=astn&sid=4687979&...
re Fred's background...
Hmmm... I wonder what people will find more credible... your very biased opinion (seeing that you are being sued by Fred and ASTN) or a NY Times article.
Sara
THE TRUTH ABOUT FRED'S BACKGROUND
To:Capitalizer who started this subject
From: Candle stick Monday, May 7, 2001 5:32 PM
Respond to of 3821
THE TRUTH ABOUT FRED'S BACKGROUND
looks pretty damn good to me, read on.....
New York Times - Sunday, June 1, 1986 - Page 1 of Business Section
HOMETOWN BOYS MAKE GOOD . . .
The Rittereisers, raised in Yorkville, now use their street smarts downtown.
by Priscilla Ann Smith
Ritterize (RIT ter-ize) An attempt to rescue a brokerage house from scandal in what appears to be a hard-hitting, competitive, straight shooter – often named Rittereiser – to take command.
Last June, when E.F. Hutton & Company was reeling from the worst scandal in its history, its beleaguered chairman went outside the firm to hire a president who would, he hoped, pull the company back together.
Robert Rittereiser, at the age of 47, seemed to be the perfect elixir for a suffering Hutton. Already known around Wall Street as a straight shooter and Mr. Clean, he was Merrill Lynch's chief administrative officer and financial officer, top operations man, and some believed, a contender for the president's job. He was known as for his "direct, aggressive manner of handling problems," the sort of executive whose approach to challenges is "Let's do it, let's not be afraid," said William G. Morton, chairman of the Boston Stock Exchange.
As it turned out, Bob Rittereiser went to work digging Hutton out of its morass, just as his older brother, Fredric W. Rittereiser, was tapped for a rescue mission of another sort. The 49-year-old ex-cop, who has held a host of jobs in the brokerage business, took the assignment of Vice Chairman of First Jersey Securities last fall. His major task: to improve the tarnished image of the big, fast-growing firm that has been hurt by repeated charges of stock manipulation made against it and its chairman and founder, Robert Brennan, by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Mr. Rittereiser's presence is already being felt there. In the latest version of First Jersey's television commercials, for example, Mr. Rittereiser and the firm's president, Jack Dell, are shown getting into a helicopter with Mr. Brennan – a break with previous commercials that show only Mr. Brennan.
"Robert Brennan was First Jersey and now Fred Rittereiser will be First Jersey," says Scott Emrich, publisher of United Markets Guide, which charts over-the-counter stocks, a market the First Jersey dominates. Mr. Brennan himself says that Mr. Rittereiser's presence will help him play a "less significant" role in First Jersey and to concentrate on other investments, which include racetracks, race horses and real estate.
Thus, within a few months of each other, the brothers took on two of Wall Street's toughest jobs. Finding siblings in such high-level positions would be curious enough in the old blue-blood families that have long filled Wall Street's top ranks. But for a blue collar family from Manhattan's Yorkville section, where stickball and not racquetball was the sport of choice and education came from the street and not a parlor of prep school, the Ritterisers phenomenon is an aberration – even in a nation that treasures its Horatio Alger tales.
And there is yet a third brother, Thomas, 46, who also earns more than $500,000 as a brokerage executive. As a first vice president at Cantor Fitzgerald Securities Corporation, he is not, however, in a hot seat as his two brothers are.
That pair has already left its mark on wall Street. They "are superb executives," says Kenneth R. Leibler, president of the American Stock Exchange, echoing the views of many on Wall Street, "They are sensitive to the major forces in our industry, particularly technology, and the fact that they are so successful and in the same family is truly remarkable."
The head of that family, Fredric Rittereiser, their 77-year old father, says quite simply that his sons' success "scares me."
The Rittereiser boys, and their younger sister, Liz, were raised in a blue collar work ethic. There father was a truck driver, their mother, Elizabeth, a housewife. The three boys juggles part-time work and played ball in the streets, turning down college scholarships to get jobs that paid steady wages. Until they married in their early 20's, they handed over half of their earnings to their mother. Only Bob graduated from a four year college, and he did that in seven years, by working days and going to school at nights. Fred had a two-year City College "police science" course before going to work as a New York City policeman.
"You see working class families where everybody is successful, where there are a lot of kids who are all overachievers," says Paul D'Arby, senior consultant psychologist for Rohrer, Holder Heplagle, Inc. which psychologically screens people for executive jobs. But, he adds, they often do not fit into corporate roles or meet corporate requirements.
The Rittereiser brothers, he said, appear to have had "a good mother and a good home. But they also may have gotten something special from their father. He sounds like a free spirit and a risk taker who may have caused their mother a few grey hairs but taught the children to look beyond the ordinary working class boundaries and be willing to go far from home to bring the bread in."
Adds First jersey's Mr. Brennan: "I know the brothers and they are remarkable; the whole family is remarkable. But when you know the father, you know that when you plant beans, you get beans."
Still, the Rittereisers seem conscious of their lack of credentials on Wall Street. "I couldn't join the political clubs and I wouldn't have joined them," Bob says. "There is no question I was chosen on merits. My mother believed the world was a meritocracy. Added Fred with characteristic bluntness "There was the old boy network and I never got in. But my knowledge of telecommunications allowed me to penetrate management."
The street smarts didn't hurt either. "I fear that higher education makes a man too civilized to face what he has to face," says Fred. "Growing up like we did, I can feel a hoodlum, smell him."
If the Rittereisers were barred at first from the powerful clubs and networks that dominate Wall Street, they formed one of their own. In 1958, Bob took a lowly job as a margin clerk at Merrill Lynch, and even before his 27 year career there took off, he laid the groundwork for his brothers' careers.
"Bob was doing well at Merrill Lynch and he brought his brothers both into the firm," said their father. Five years after Bob started at Merrill, Fred joined as an assistant trader in the over-the-counter department. And five years after that, Tom started as an operations clerk but later moved into bond trading. In fact, the family network was "so strong that the job Tom left to go to Merrill – at Emory Air Freight – was one that his father, who was a truck driver there, had gotten him. At Emory, Tom worked up to operations manager at Kennedy Airport and "when I left, my father was working for me," he said.
During his years at Merrill, Bob moved steadily – and aggressively – through the ranks. But by the time Robert Ponson called last summer asking for help at Hutton, Mr. Rittereiser appeared more than ready to jump ship. "Nineteen eighty four was a difficult year,"he said. Among other things, he watched his mentor, Roger E. Birk, chairman of Merrill Lynch & Company, take early retirement. Mr. Birk had been instrumental in many of Mr. Rittereiser's career moves at Merrill, including his assignment to save Goodbody & Company, a larger brokerage house that nearly collapsed when Merrill took it over in 1970.
Goodbody was Bob Rittereiser's first experience with crisis management — and within 18 months, he said he helped dissolve the firm and make whole its former customers. But Hutton was a much tougher challenge. As he put it when he arrived: There was an atmosphere at Hutton "where the ball could go through the third baseman's legs and then the left fielder's legs, and the center fielder could sat ‘It's not my problem.'"
Now, he says, his major challenge is to restore morale, a task that he says is made more difficult by all the investigations: "We must be the most thoroughly investigated firm in history," he said.
Hutton's problems seem to have resulted from independent regional offices, where some officers were apparently inflating the cash flow of their units by [indiscernible] bank accounts and making illegal profits off [indiscernible]. Top management said it was unaware of what was going on.
One of the first things Mr. Rittereiser sought to remedy he says, was Hutton's loose structure. He has also tried to realign Hutton's financial operations, including establishing a new internal cash management system and appointing a new chief financial officer.
Financially, Hutton seems to be on solid ground now. Although its earnings last year dropped 17 percent to $43.7 million, largely as the result of a writeoff for a possible loan loss, they rose sharply in this year's first quarter. And as Mr. Rittereiser reorganizes the firm, he is keeping it close to basics: It does not plan to convert itself into a financial cafeteria as many of its Wall Street competitors have, offering customers everything from credit cards to home mortgage loans. Instead, Bob Rittereiser says, Hutton will continue to offer a number of financial products that will all relate in some way to investments.
Although his job is far from done, Mr. Rittereiser, whose salary exceeds $800,000 plus stock options, appears to be taking charge smoothly and ruffling surprisingly few feathers. "It's hard to believe that someone from outside Hutton could move in so smoothly," said Michael Castellano. a senior vice president at Hutton, who suddenly found himself reporting to a new chief financial officer brought in by Bob Rittereiser. Added Robert [indiscernible - Forpon?], Hutton's chairman, I lucked out. It is much more than I ever anticipated."
Fred Rittereiser, for his part, might have the more complicated of the two brothers jobs. There has been a steady stream of negative articles on Mr. Brennan and First Jersey as a result of press and Securities and Exchange Commission investigations into transactions of the company. "First Jersey is becoming too big a company to have this kind of press," says Mr. Emrich.
The S.E.C. basically charged that First Jersey had violated securities laws, in effect, through the manipulation of prices of various stocks. Mr. Brennan has denied those charges, but in 1984, without admitting or denying the allegations, he agreed to an injunction against certain future securities law violations.
In some instances, Mr. Brennan's private investments have been in companies whose stock was later sold, all or in part, to First Jersey customers – generating big profits for him. Mr. Brennan has contended that these transactions are legal because he had disclosed them in public filings with the S.E.C.
Last month, after another probe, several lower level officers of First Jersey were charged with obstruction of justice and perjury. And the S.E.C. is continuing investigations into other First Jersey activities.
Despite its problems, First Jersey continues to grow, it is one of the nations biggest mass marketers of stocks, particularly small capital, so-called growth stocks. According to Fred Rittereiser, it now has $85 million in assets and $45 million in net capital. With 1,200 sales representatives in 38 offices nationwide and between 550,000 and 600,000 retail clients, it adds new clients at the pace of 5,000 a month, he said. In 1980, he said, there were fewer than 100 account executives and fewer than 50,000 clients and "12 or so offices." Net capital was below $5 million.
By his own admission, First Jersey's Mr. Rittereiser, who said he now earns more than $500,000 a year, has little retail marketing experience. He was tapped for the First Jersey job after serving as president of Instinet,, which operates a computer network for institution-to-institution stock trades. His earlier experience was in over-the-counter stock trading, where he had a reputation of being shrewd and clean.In fact, when he was trading at G.A. Sexton & Company, he was named to one of the first committees set up by the National Association of Securities Dealers to look into some questionable First Jersey transactions in the late 1960's. Results of the investigation were inconclusive, Mr. Rittereiser says, and were later turned over to the S.E.C., which continued investigation.
How does a Rittereiser-run First Jersey differ from a Brennan-run First Jersey? In addition to beefing up its research department – it has 10 people now instead of two – Fred Rittereiser is trying to lead the firm further into investment banking, which would give First Jersey a major source of income not dependent on retail customers and provide a new area of potential growth.
Though First Jersey has brought public a number of new issues, underwritings to generate added capital for existing companies would be a new source of income for the firm, says Mr. Rittereiser. He cites one recent transaction that he devised, involving [indiscernible – Imatron, Inc. or Imedtron, Inc.???], which he says is the model for "five or six other" deals he is planning.
First Jersey became involved with [Imatron??], a medical equipment company whose stock is traded over the counter, in several ways. It purchase about 20 percent, or more than 4 Million, of the company's shares, for sale to its customers. First Jersey also arranged to become underwriter for [Imatron??] to raise funds in the future, probably through private placement of equity units, which might include warrants or various forms of stock. For now, First Jersey's newly expanded research department has put out a 12-page report on [Imatron??] that recommends purchase of its shares.
The April 11 research report to customers does not mention First Jersey;'s underwriting arrangement nor its 4 million share purchase of Imatron's stock. That, says Mr. Rittereiser, is covered in the standard boilerplate disclaimer that is prepared in small type at the bottom of the research report's first page.
Many Big Board firms, as a matter of policy, include such specific information in their research reports, but legally, according to a National Association of Securities Dealers attorney, Mr. Rittereiser may be right – the boilerplate may protect a firm against any failure to make a material disclosure. First Jersey is not regulated by the New York Stock Exchange; instead, it falls under the N.A.S.D., an industry-supported regulatory organization. It is also regulated by the S.E.C.
With so much limelight on First jersey, how are Mr. Rittereiser and Mr. Brennan getting along these days? "I understand him," Fred Rittereiser says of his boss, pointing out that Mr. Brennan grew up as a street kid in Newark. But, he continued, Mr. Brennan "will have to prove himself on the playing field." Then he pauses, "I never trust anyone that I haven't known a very long time."
END OF ARTICLE
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=15767388
Bird of Prey,
"After all, many posters were educated in the public school systems...who haven't produced a national spelling bee champion in forever...maybe it's because they spend so much time trying to find new excuses to arrest students!"
Too true... but best not to get me started on the public school system... especially here in CA.
Sara
bullish engulfing candlestick?
Would love any TA experts to comment on this post:
Posted by: arkieboy
Date: 5/31/2001 10:32:48 PM (ET)
Post # of 5045
Archangel: Bullish Engulfing Pattern Alert:(05/31/01)
These penny stocks completed a bullish engulfing candlestick pattern today.
ASTN
BSTI
EMEDD
PRAV
PSIX
TERA
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=118359
Sara
I'm a little confused... in post 22 it said the headquarters where relocated to Madison, WI, yet this PR is out of Las Vegas... ???
Also, I clicked on the world home page and it has an active X control... if you ignore it, you get nothing.
Sara
Management Report Update May 8th 2001
The period subsequent to the last management report has been a busy and very rewarding time for JMC. This latest report follows directly from the return of Dr. Mousseau Tremblay from his latest site visit in his capacity as representative of the Joint Venture Management Committee and the completion of the documentation of his findings.
Dr. Tremblay spent the period between March 28th through April 13th in Brazil, principally to report on the development of the site and to facilitate the legal requirements of government filings related to the property.
Plant Rehabilitation
Management is pleased to report that with the exception of some electrical wiring, water piping and final connections between components, the mill is ready to process uncemented gravels. All individual components are working efficiently within their expected parameters. The laser Sortex, for final separation of diamonds from the heavy mineral concentrates, has been tested using historically processed gravels, from which diamonds were recovered. A separate attrition mill component has been located and will be added to expand the plant capability to process cemented gravels once revenue from diamond production is forthcoming. The completed plant is expected to become a model for the Juina area and its efficient completion is a testament to the dedication of our Plant Manager, Ron Turner.
Ron has also overseen the completion of the strong room, which completes the security system aimed at ensuring safe storage of processed diamonds before leaving the property.
A well-equipped laboratory for the separation of mineral samples from the prospecting program has been completed. The laboratory includes heavy mineral separation facilities, microscopy equipment and all necessary computational support.
Mineral Sampling Program
At the time of Dr. Tremblay's departure from the site, lines had been cut on over half of the property and samples had been collected from approximately 30% of the total number of sites. The survey, when complete, will cover the entire area of the Joint Venture's claim and in addition to providing immediate information allowing the accurate location of diamond source anomalies will represent a comprehensive database of mineral separates for future and more detailed sampling. The area so far completed has focused around the location of the most promising geomagnetic anomalies according to surveys completed on behalf of JMC.
Dr. Mark Hutchison, using representative samples from close to the primary anomaly, is optimizing the details of mineral separation and prospecting procedures. Heavy mineral and magnetic separation of different fractions have allowed a recipe for the most efficient removal of the key kimberlite indicator minerals; ilmenite, garnet, phlogopite, zircon and Cr-spinel to be completed. Preliminary findings of mineral compositions have yielded promising data in terms of diamond prospectivity.
Governmental Filings
The Joint Venture is still in the process of finalizing the negotiations with the relevant Brazilian State and federal government authorities. At this stage, and now that the plant is essentially finished, the principal impediment to processing of gravel and extraction of diamonds is the completion of filings with the mining authority IBAMA. Management wishes it to be known that these procedures are in hand and are being conveyed with as much speed as possible.
Juina Mining Corporation Re-organization for Return to Bulletin Board
Management has acquired the services of Thomas J. Kenan, Esq., of the law firm of Fuller, Tubb, Pomeroy & Stokes as corporate council. Mr. Kenan will be instrumental in assisting management in the proper corporate filings necessary in its anticipated return to Bulletin Board trading status. SB-2 and 10-SB forms have been completed and submitted to council for review and subsequent filing. Management is taking an aggressive approach to all past, present and future filings necessary to maintain full compliance and the upgrading of trading status.
The complete address and communication numbers with corporate council are as follows:
Thomas J. Kenan, Esq.
Fuller, Tubb, Pomeroy & Stokes
201 Robert S. Kerr Ave., Suite 1000
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102
Tel: 405-235-2575
Fax: 405-232-8384
Email: kenan@ftpslaw.com
Final Notes
The next Joint Venture Management visit to the site is planned to be conducted by JMC's Chief Geologist, Dr. Mark Hutchison. He is expected to oversee the initial stage of mineral separation from the sampling program and to supervise focusing on the most likely diamondiferous areas. It is hoped that if filings are completed, his visit will also coincide with the first processing of diamondiferous gravels which will enable timely observations of diamond grade to be announced.
Management would like to extend its thanks to shareholders for their patience during this developmental period and are confident in a bright future.
Forward-looking statements in this report are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties and actual results could differ from those discussed. This material is informational only and is not an offer or solicitation to buy or sell securities.
(see their website for original report)
Thanks for the clarification. eom
FG,
Some years back I found out someone had been using my Social Security Number. Fortunately, they had been contributing to my account, not claiming unemployment or anything (most likely an illegal alien using it). But I think this kind of thing happens more often than people think.
Anyway, I recommend people periodically checking their Social Security account information.
Sara
RE: The JXM Rule
The JXM Rule: No posts will be allowed to be removed after a 24-hour period starting from the posts’ timestamp, unless good reason is given to the iHub Administrator.
IMO this is a good rule, but I am concerned that 24 hours is kind of short. What is someone posts something on saturday and the chairman and director are gone for the weekend and check Monday morning... they would not be able to delete any posts that might have been offensive.
Sara
MLO's chart of daily eVWAP Volume...
Check out today's spike!
http://www.geocities.com/mlo23/
Sara
eVWAP - Stock list traded today!
SYMBOL COMPANY
A AGILENT TECH
ABT ABBOTT LAB
ADP AUTOMATIC DATA
AEP AMER ELEC PWR
AGC AMERICAN GENERAL
AHP AMER HOME PROD
AIG AMER INTER GRP INC
AT ALLTELL CORP.
AXP AMERICAN EXPRESS
BAC BANK OF AMERICA
BAX BAXTER TRAVENOL
BK BANK OF NEW YORK CO
BLS BELLSOUTH CORP.
BMY BRISTOL MEYERS SQU.
C CITIGROUP
CA COMPUTR ASSOC INTL
CD CENDANT CORPORAT
CHV CHEVRON CORP.
CPQ COMPAQ COMPUTERS
CVS CVS CORPORATION
DD DUPONT DENEMOURS
DUK DUKE ENERGY CORP
EK EASTMAN KODAK CO
F FORD MOTOR CO
FBF FLEETBOSTON
FDX FEDEX CORP
FNM FANNIE MAE
FON SPRINT CORP
FRE FREDDIE MAC
G GILLETTE COMPANY
GDT GUIDANT CORP
GE GENERAL ELECTRIC
GLW CORNING INCORP.
GM GENERAL MOTORS C
GMH GENERAL MOTORS CORP
GPS GAP INC.
HAL HALLIBURTON (HOL
HCA HCA - THE HEALTH
HD HOME DEPOT INC.
HIG HARTFORD FINAN
HWP HEWLETT-PACKARD
IBM INTL. BUS. MACHI
JNJ JOHNSON & JOHNSON
JPM JPM CHASE
KR KROGER CO
LEH LEHMAN BRO INC
LLY ELI LILLY AND CO.
LTD LIMITED, INC.
LU LUCENT TECH
MAY MAY DEPARTMENT S
MCD MCDONALDS CORP
MDT MEDTRONIC INC.
MER MERRILL LYNCH
MET METLIFE INC
MOT MOTOROLA INC
MRK MERCK & CO., INC
MWD MORGAN STAN DW
ONE BANK ONE
PCS SPRINT PCS GROUP
PEP PEPSICO INC
PFE PFIZER, INC.
PVN PROVIDIAN FINAN
Q QWEST COMMUNICAT
RAL RALSTON GROUPS
SBC SBC COMMUNICATION
SCH CHARLES SCHWAB CORP
SGP SCHERING-PLOUGH
SLE SARA LEE CORP.
SLR SOLECTION CORP
SO SOUTHN CO
T AT&T CORP.
TGT TARGET CORP
UNH UNITEDHEALTH GRO
USB US BANCORP
VZ VERIZON COMM
WFC WELLS FARGO NEW
WM WASHINGTON MUTUA
WMT WAL-MART STORES
3,918,000 shares, executed pre-opening in eVWAP with
complete anonymity, no market impact, at very low fees.
http://www.ashtontechgroup.com/anews.html
1959000x2.record
by: the_grand_poobah2000 05/31/01 09:33 am EDT
Msg: 117783 of 117802
<EOM>
Second the motion for this feature suggested by FG:
+ Archive for PM's sent, more important than those received, which you can choose to delete or copy at leisure
Sara
Interview by WallStreetReporter of
Fredric Rittereiser
Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer
Dated March 1, 2001
http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/interviews/mar/1/AshtonTechnologyGroup.htm
Sara
Today's trading, from ASTN website at
http://www.ashtontechgroup.com/anews.html
SYMBOL COMPANY
CPQ COMPAQ COMPUTERS
EMC EMC CORP.
HAL HALLIBURTON
IBM INTL. BUS. MACHI.
LU LUCENT TECH
RIG TRANSOCEAN SEDCO
1,364,000 shares, executed pre-opening in eVWAP with
complete anonymity, no market impact, at very low fees.
Last post of mine on this subject...
If anyone cares to know the whole story, I'll be happy to explain in detail, providing links and backup to what I've said via private message in order to spare the board any more of this.
My final statement on invasion of privacy. I believe the TOU should following the legal defintion which would indicate that posting any personal information that is not directly relevent to public concern is unlawful.
I will fully comply with this rule.
Further, I believe anyone that professes the tactic of snagging peoples IP information by lurring them to their personal website for the purpose of using that information to threaten them, should not be allowed to post such links.
Sara
greg and board,
Sorry... it started when I reacted positively to this post:
"Personally, I feel that a site should take action against a poster that is using their site to invade another's privacy, through any means, including the posting of links that facilitate this behavior."
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=117159
You probably would have all known who I was talking about without having supplied the specific example and stirring things up.
Sara
Thanks for the warning, but I already fell victim to her. But thanks for the link, it should help in the future. I've been on the net for about 8 years now and this is the first time this has been a problem for me.
Sara
SirVinny,
On other boards I have bookmarked people who I felt posted great information without ever addressing them directly. Doesn't seem that out of the norm to me. I lurk on a lot of boards and follow along and rarely post.
Matt... as for my vote... I don't think it matters either way to me about knowing who has who bookmarked. But it does matter alot to me if any feature can lead to a person's IP being snagged.
Sara
SirVinny,
Good point.
Sara
"So when you went to someone profile, you'd see:
People Marks: 25
Ignores: 12
I'm inclined to just show the number of People Marks and if the number of ignores goes over 25, make it output "Dingleberry" on your profile."
LOL... I love the idea, especially the Dingleberry!
Sara
682000x2
by: the_grand_poobah2000 on Yahoo
Hi Matt,
I know I'm pretty new around here, but I thought I'd throw in my two cents.
I agree with Vs post that Chairman concept is a good one. I can see from an administrative point of view it must work well. The only problem might be if you got a chairman and/or director who was a disruptive or unfair person.
It's been suggested tallying the ignores. On Yahoo you can recommend individual posts and on RB you have the "power" rating system. I'd like to see a combination of some sort of positive reinforcement (either for individuals or their good posts) and some indication that a poster is a problem child. So, I guess I kind of like the idea of tallying ignores as long as it's balanced with some sort of positive rating system. The reason being that posters who are straight shooters can be received poorly even when they are posting factual information. So not everyone is going to get all ignores or all recommends, it's going to be some balance of the two in most cases.
Anyway... just my thoughts. Have a good day.
Sara
ASTN Announces Regulatory Approval of S&P 500 Listed Issues for eVWAP
(Hi Smokey & Tradin... thought it might be nice to have the most recent news posted here)
Monday April 30, 2001 10:02 AM
Company Press Release
The Ashton Technology Group Announces Regulatory Approval of S&P 500 Listed Issues for eVWAP
PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 2001--The Ashton Technology Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTN) announced today that the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) has received immediate effectiveness of a rule filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which, among other things, expands the number of securities eligible to match in the eVWAP(TM) Trading System, to any exchange traded component issue of the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 Index, and any listed issue designated by S&P for inclusion in the Index.
Ashton's eVWAP is an anonymous, pre-opening matching system to execute orders at an SEC approved standardized volume weighted average price (eVWAP Price(TM)). Participants receive confidential, binding match reports before the market opening with the eVWAP Price automatically ascribed to such trades following the market close.
Key users of the System, which is operated by Ashton as a facility of the PHLX, are brokers, index traders, plan sponsors, money managers, and other institutional investors.
Fredric Rittereiser, Ashton Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, "We are very pleased to receive the opportunity to consider the entire list of S&P 500 Index exchange traded issues as eligible for eVWAP matching."
"eVWAP's ability also to trade all listed issues being added to the Index is particularly important to index participants engaged in portfolio rebalancings. Inclusion of S&P 500 Nasdaq components and other active Nasdaq issues in eVWAP coincides with the PHLX's reinstatement of its over-the-counter unlisted trading privileges program, which should occur early this summer," Mr. Rittereiser added.
Ashton is an eCommerce company that develops and operates electronic trading and intelligent matching systems for the global financial securities industry. Our focus is to develop and operate alternative trading systems, serving the needs of exchanges, institutional investors and broker-dealers in the U.S. and internationally.
Our goal is to enable these market participants to trade in an electronic global trading environment that provides large order size, absolute anonymity, no market impact and lower transaction fees.
The forgoing press release contains forward-looking statements based on current management expectations. A variety of important factors could cause results to differ materially from such statements.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ from current expectations include unexpected regulatory filing issues, industry trends, and competition. These and other risks are described in greater detail in Ashton's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Websites: www.ashtontechgroup.com and www.evwap.com.
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Contact:
The Ashton Technology Group
Investor Relations and Media:
Christine Geisser, 215/789-3300
Telefax: 215/789-3397
Shareholder email: shquestions@ashtontechgroup.com
Mary
Yes, I know "cease and desist" is a general term which can be orders from a court, a government agency or individuals. Asking if the cease and desists you have gotten were court orders was a legitimate question. Yes I know you specified "letters" but your posts are often inaccurate.
Sara
Nice to get the record straight. Were those cease and desist letters court orders? If so, didn't the judge say something to you about disobeying a court order?
Sara
"How many are threatening to sue Mary now? I don't know, why don't you ask her?"
I have.
As for the rest, each to his own.
Sara
Mary...
Ah... time will tell.
And what's happening with SEVU, are they still threatening to sue you? And what about that rumor you talked about over on RB, that FG and others are going to sue you? How many are companies/people are threatening to sue you? How many actual suits are in progress?
Sara
"Ok, you've pointed them out. Move on!"
Sorry... if mary can't chase me away by posting my personal information and threatening to call my boss... then your rude post won't do it either.
""She doesn't just report the facts or state her opinion... she intermingles the two in such a way that it makes things that are her opinion sounds as if they are facts." In you opinion!"
No, I can provide posts that demonstrate that.
And yes, when it's my guess or opinion, I try hard to make that clear.
IMO it would be a travesty of justice if Mary got off the hook with the ASTN law suit. How many people are threatening to sue her now? You seem to be best buds with her.
Sara