From: roger niles [mailto:rniles1@earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 3:01 PM
To: sec marie $steve
Subject: 


who made up the rule that market makers can short a stock in their own proprietary accounts!  
retail investors can't. if there's no stock out there to short..and I was wondering about 
the stock under 5 dollars?  can the market makers short then?  this was obviously a rule made
up by the market makers!  the SEC is just a bunch of lawyers who go after people such as 
Tokyo Joe and that go after the true corruption which goes on all the time!  by the market 
makers working in conjunction with the analyst firms. who would know the answer to that 
question? can the market makers short a stock under 5 dollars?