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Re: TooFrank post# 186361

Sunday, 04/27/2014 3:58:10 PM

Sunday, April 27, 2014 3:58:10 PM

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In the OTC, after hours Form T trades are almost without exception "late prints". They are the result of accumulated buys or sells handled on a "not held" basis through block desks. They have nothing to do with short selling in particular, but with buying and selling in general.

Let's say you are an insider, promoter, or finance guy and who has a large block of shares you want to liquidate (the most common reason for Form T trades, in my experience). You can tell your broker (who in the penny market is usually someone who specializes in this kind of work) that you want to sell "up to XXX million shares at the best price possible". He turns the order over to a market maker (it may be one from his own firm or it may be a market maker with whom his firm has an order flow agreement). In other cases, the seller may instruct his broker to "sell up to 10% of the day's volume at a positive average weighted price". The broker usually monitors the progress of the order throughout the day.

At the end of the day, the market maker handling the order will place a T-trade print on the tape for an accumulated total at the average price at which the shares were sold if there was still a balance left to sell. If the entire order had been completed during trading hours, the print will go on the tape normally.

You can pretty much tell whether the Form T trades are from large block buyers or sellers by looking at the price at which the trade was entered."

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