Subject: File No. S7-08-09
From: Theodore A Wilde

May 4, 2009

Dear Ms. Shapiro,
I hope you'll reinstate the uptick rule as it existed before 2007. As a small investor I feel like I've been playing on a field tilted against me. Stand for fairness even if it means some of your colleagues on the commission, who did away with the rule, have to eat crow.
Good luck,
Ted Wilde