Subject: Rule 34-42037/ File No. S7-24-99 Author: "Amir" at Internet Date: 12/07/1999 4:26 PM This comment is in regards to the process of shorting on the OTC:BB. This process should be outlawed. It is legal highway robbery when an MM is allowed to manipulate a stock to his/her gain. Some stocks on the OTC:BB have gone DOWN even with heavy buying pressure coming in. Today on the TVCP ask price, a few buy orders cam through at .53 and then immediately the ask was lowered to .52. This unlawful manipulation of stock prices needs to be stopped. It is not my problem that the MMs are short but for them to resort to this type of activity to protect themselves at the cost of others losing money is an outrage. Seeing orders for 1,000 shares followed by 5,000 shares come in and the ask does not budge. Then if a small 100 share order comes through as a sell, the bid drops. The MMs need to be more strongly regulated and the process of shorting completely eliminated. Thank you for recognizing that a problem exists. Let's all work together to eliminate this shorting process. Amir Ali