Date:    01/29/2000  5:15 PM

Subject: SR-NYSE-99-47


Why is this rule not posted on the SEC Proposed rules page? Someone 
trying to sneak this one through the system without alerting the public? 
SR-NYSE-99-47
     
2. I believe this rule is discriminatory and allows Market Makers and people 
with $25000 and above to control their risk, while at the same time removing 
the smaller accounts ability to control the risk to their portfolio's. This 
country was built on equal opportunity. To remove the equal opportunity aspect of 
trading/investing is a great disservice to the american citizens0. To support this 
proposed rule is anti-american. This proposed rule should be killed 
immediately and should never have even been considered due to it's 
discriminatory nature. It is designed to allow the Market makers to go back 
to stealing billions from the public as happened in years gone by.
     
Regards,
    Joe D. Wheeler