Date:    06/21/2000  11:20 AM

Subject: Market Makers

May I suggest that market makers are supposed to provide orderly markets 
not maniulate the market.. They are apparently shorting stocks for there 
on accounts and manipulating the market. The abusive is more evident in 
bulletin board stocks. I have seen good bulletin board stocks be moved 
and manipuated by market makers before news, and with no new short it to 
ureasoable levels, and in no way providing orderly markets but 
manipulating for personal gains, which was not the purpose of a market 
maker.  
May I also suggest that on bulletin board stocks that it be mandated that 
they maintain a minumum bid and offer of 10,000 shares to offer 
liquidity, and that nasdaq market makers be required to make minimum bids 
and offers of 1,000 shares or more. I think by doing this you will have 
mandated lquidity, and therefore have more orderly markets, as it stands 
now they jerk you around with a few shares. In other words for a bulletin 
board stock the 10,000 bid or offer would reflect now 9,000 after a 1,000 
traded until the 10,000 had been dispensed with and the same on the 
Nasdaq on the 1,000 mnimu amount if 100 shares traded then post 900 
remaining till the bid had ben hit or offer bought.
     
The raising or lowering of the price could be done after news, but only 
then.
I think that no bid can be lowered until a minimum amount of the 
required by a law amount be traded and the same on the ask the market 
can't go up until the required amunt of shares be traded, if you do that 
you eliminate rift raft market manipulation, and maintain orderly 
markets, which is what we all seek.
     
Thank you
Mickey Britt