March 4, 2009

Subject: The Uptick Rule

Please put back the uptick rule.....if not permanently, at least put it back while taking another look at it.......it worked so well for so many years, and I have to believe that part of the problem of the market coincided with the elimination of the rule......

Elliott Peigen

Vice President

Capital Insurance & Investment Agency

Fort Oglethorpe, Ringgold and Chickamauga, Georgia

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