Why does Wedbush Morgan dominate order flow?

Have you looked at recent list of your market participants lately? If you’re a large, liquid issue on either NYSE or Nasdaq, Wedbush probably ranks high. During September 2007, Wedbush topped all liquidity providers at the Nasdaq, surpassing Morgan Stanley, Citadel Derivatives, Instinet and Lime Brokerage.

Los Angeles based Wedbush, once just another mid-sized bank toiling in the long shadows of the bulge brackets like Morgan, has carved itself a niche. Our Top 25 Volume report for Oct 29-Nov 2 showed Wedbush with 9% of all order flow. Is Wedbush’s Maximus fast-trading platform dominating other trading systems, or is there more to what’s going on here? (Read the full post about ‘Investor Relations and High Frequency Trading - What’s Lurking in the (Wed)bushes?’…)

They extend their hand-out and that’s about it sometimes. Your suggestions are more important than your hand! It’s like April Fool’s everyday with them and they don’t even know to go figure after decades perhaps! We The People, need to more than make our so called mark! Suggestions should be offered in every area of life, and especially when we vote. If you have a good thought or suggestion, then your vote has my respect more! Marriage carries many suggestions with it. Shouldn’t those who hold office be as important and open for suggestions as we are in everyday day life, married or not? Shouldn’t they be required to read at least some of a voted in group of , “We The People” candidates best, that we voted in to offer our best suggestions? (Read the full post about ‘Suggest Best, Before, Durning, And After Voting !’…)