Article: New Rules Cause Dealers to Drop Stocks Under a Dollar.

Dealers in National Market System stocks, owing to rule changes brought about by Reg NMS, are dropping names trading for less than one dollar.

Behind the moves, traders say, are locked and crossed markets brought on by ECN pricing practices.

"I am clearly seeing problems with some of these ECNs locking and over locking," Steven Winkler, co-head of trading at Hudson Securities, said. "Sometimes they're even locking themselves."

Dealers mentioned a few small-cap stocks in which the locked or crossed markets are most commonly occurring. These include Atari (ATAR) and PRG-Shultz (PRGX), dealers said.

Winkler says Hudson is not dropping any stocks, but other ...

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