Date:    09/17/2000  7:53 AM

Subject: File No. S7-24-99

    The SEC should completely ban the practice of the short selling of stocks by
everyone, market makers and investors.  The market(s) should operate strictly on
supply and demand.  The market(s) should be completely electronic where the 
buyer is matched with seller and there is no gap in-between. Liquidity will 
happen simply by breaking through the price thresholds that each individual sets
to buy or sell any certain stock. If I want to buy a stock bad enough, I will 
raise my ask until someone is willing to sell. If I want to sell a stock bad 
enough, I will lower my bid until somebody buys it. The markets have stocks 
trading for under a penny that had one time highs of multiple dollars.  But they
are trading!  There is volume, which is liquidity. This is the 21st century, it 
is time for the investment world to utilize the available technology.  Short 
selling destroys supply and demand and creates an avenue for manipulation and 
corruption. Please end the practice of selling short! 
    Thank You:
                    Rodney Lovell