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Tinker2387

10/04/11 12:46 PM

#25651 RE: mm107 #25639

im sorry (sometimes pictures need to be drawn for me) but in the grand scheme of things this is a good thing, except the mm's make a nice profit off of it?
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Yosako

10/14/11 11:09 AM

#26131 RE: mm107 #25639

That measure can do far more harm than just "slowing down volume" from dilutive activity: it can literally drive volume down to zero. If order sizes > 25% ADV are outright blocked (Zecco's implementation is this radical), the size of the orders accepted by the trading platform go down exponentially as average volume gets lower each day. If a stock has days of low activity or no activity, the stock inevitably dies unless activity from non-Penson brokers come into the scene.