Thanks to market reforms inspired in part by FORBES' exposs of excessive spreads in o-t-c markets in 1993 and 1996these young marketmakers are often able to dance around the big players.

FORBES: Guerrillas on Wall Street

These traders hope to get rich by shaving small slices off marketmaker spreads in o-t-c stocks like Dell, Amazon.com, Excite, Yahoo!

FORBES: Free enterprise comes to Wall Street

These traders hope to get rich by shaving small slices off market maker spreads in o- t-c stocks like Dell, Intel and Microsoft.

FORBES: Guerrillas on Wall Street

Shapiro is still a director at 360 and says he hopes to make investors in the o-t-c bulletin board stock whole.

FORBES: Magazine Article

In 2002 the company had done a reverse merger with ProHealth Medical, an o-t-c bulletin board stock, that resulted in Langley's RHL Management getting 5.5 million shares.

FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

Yet there it is, on signs and over storefronts, in big, bold letters: C-O-M.

CNN: Stops and Starts

It is possible for U.S. investors to buy shares on the o-t-c market or on the main exchanges through a brokerage account in Vietnam, which you must have in order to buy individual shares.

FORBES: Red Shares

Hordes of penny-stock hustlers have headed south to the American Stock Exchange, the o-t-c bulletin board and the Pink Sheets since the Vancouver Stock Exchange disappeared in 1999.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Sitting next to Serge Milman in Broadway's trading room is Steven Girden, 36, a former o-t-c marketmaker at Bear, Stearns' risk arbitrage desk.

FORBES: Free enterprise comes to Wall Street

Barbara Ryan, the pharmaceuticals analyst at Deutsche Bank, wrote in a note to investors that she expects Pfizer to at least spin off the baby formula and o-t-c units.

FORBES: Will Pfizer Break Up?