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Specialists for OTCBB & Nasdaq Stocks
Specialists for OTCBB and Nasdaq Companies By William Cate Published June 2000 [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]
An orderly market should be the goal of every public company. Sharp rises or falls in share price attract regulators. A rapidly rising share price feeds upon itself and guarantees a share price collapse. A sharp drop in your share price creates selling barriers. When you attempt to revive your strong share price, your shareholders dump their stock. A steady upward climb, with minor downward adjustments, keeps shareholders loyal. The question isn't how high can you drive your share price? It's how long can you sustain your current share price?
One weapon in your share-price stability battle is the trading of your stock by a specialist. Most U. S. Stock Exchanges use a specialist to match buy and sell orders to create an orderly market. When buying and selling are relatively constant in any U. S. Stock Exchange company, the market is orderly. Specialist can be overwhelmed with selling and this leads to a market correction or a Bear Market. But the matching principle is sound.
The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) rely upon their brokers acting as Market Makers to act as specialists. This is the basis to the Bid/Ask price structure in the OTCBB and Nasdaq Markets. The NASD policy doesn't work. The Market Makers goal is to make money for their brokerage firms. Share-price stability is counterproductive to profit, because it reduces trading. The Market Maker needs volume to profit from a stock. Trading volume infers instability as buyers go into a feeding frenzy or sellers panic. Feeding frenzies and panics kill public companies.
If your company trades Nasdaq or the OTCBB, your investor relations person MUST act as a specialist for your stock. They must trade your stock to maintain an orderly market in your share price. Your specialist's job is to maintain the current share price, not to drive it up. Your
specialist should have a short term goal in restructuring your shareholder base. For example, EFHCF's current share price trading allows speculators to sell at a profit. However, my goal is to replace the speculators with investors who will hold the stock as it moves up. If I achieve my goal, I'll need less buying to sustain a higher share price.
Here are five golden rules for specialists seeking to maintain an orderly market. 1. NEVER discourage a shareholder from selling their stock. If you succeed, you are only delaying the sale until your share price is higher. 2. NEVER advise anyone to buy your stock. Let buyers make their own decisions. Your job is to help them buy the stock at the current price. 3. Communicate regularly with your shareholders. Keep your shareholders informed. BUT, understate the positive events and overstate the negative events about your company. 4. Use your shareholder newsletter to regularly remind your shareholders of your help with selling or buying your company's shares. 5. NEVER call a potential buyer. Let them call you.
The SEC should change its rules to help specialists. Changes would allow public companies to act more effectively in ensuring an orderly market in their stock. Unfortunately any rule change that would benefit a responsible specialist would benefit a crook. The crook would use the rule change to steal from the public and destroy the public company. At present, the crooks seem to have enough going for them. They don't need more regulatory help to bilk the public.
To contact the author: Visit the Beowulf Investments website: [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] Or, visit the Global Village Investment Club Website: [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]
About the Author
He has been the Managing Director of Beowulf Investments [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] since 1981 and is the Executive Director of the Global Village Investment Club [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]
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