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Whenever prices do show signs of recovery, he said, the foreigners have been using the opportunity to unload shares.

The possibility of a Conservative defeat at the next election promotion investors to unload shares.

And key executives must be careful about unloading shares or risk damaging the company's image and putting the stock in free fall.

Japanese institutions have periodically been among the heaviest sellers in recent months, and traders said they were unloading shares again on Friday.

However, while sellers have done well in a rising market, it may become harder to unload shares of older units as the market cools.

It prepared its telephone sales representatives for the expected onslaught of calls from investors wanting to unload shares in "junk bond" mutual funds.

That can spell trouble in a volatile stock market, as venture investors are left trying to unload shares that move rapidly up and down in price.

For years, the odd-lotters were heavy net sellers as they unloaded shares received from dividends, employee plans and Aunt Mabel's will.

During this period, almost $300 billion worth of shares were unlocked, and a substantial number of insiders, venture capitalists, and early investors unloaded shares.

With sales slowing and other marketing problems mutual fund companies including Putnam Management and T. Rowe Price have unloaded shares in the company.

Shocked at negative returns on the funds of as much as 9 percent last year, investors started unloading shares in the funds, which were then forced to sell stocks.

But you can blame them, the N.A.S.D. says, when they unload shares at $2.25 to $3 that they bought for $1.10.

Executives who want to unload shares and options from their pay packages have gradually begun to adopt prearranged trading plans, finding them useful for diversifying and raising cash.

Although there was little evidence that individuals were unloading shares by the bushel at any point this week, analysts said there could well be some increase in retail selling early next week.

Yesterday, stock prices plunged in the morning and early afternoon in what some traders described as panic selling by individuals and hedge funds forced to unload shares to meet margin calls.

Part of the reason is the effort by investment buyers to unload shares in renter-occupied apartments in converted buildings in the aftermath of the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

Indeed, Mr. Stechler has been unloading shares of Charles Schwab as that stock has climbed over the last few months, and replaced them with Quick & Reilly's.

His decision over the summer to unload shares of home builders and to acquire coal stocks, which now make up around 18 percent of CGM Realty's assets, has paid off handsomely.

They rapidly unloaded shares, and by yesterday the stock had given up almost all of its gains from earlier in the week, closing at $26.375, or 12.5 cents above where it stood before the troubles began.

The production may call on the brokers and cold-callers to unload shares on the public, although the Internet is making such brokers increasingly unnecessary; now, investors can be persuaded to buy stock electronically.

Stock prices ended lower in light trading as the State of New Jersey unloaded shares in companies that do business with South Africa and program traders grew uneasy about Friday's "triple witching hour."

Business was not dented by tiny articles in Japanese newspapers about accusations that Ms. Stewart had benefited from insider knowledge to unload shares of ImClone Systems just before they tumbled last December.

So far, insiders have not moved to take advantage of the opportunity to unload shares, though: Mr. Ruppert said that no insiders had notified him of any plans to unload shares.

But Steven Gerber at Oppenheimer & Company said the initial price of Guidant might be discounted because institutional investors often unloaded shares of spinoffs that might not meet their requirements for dividends and earnings histories.

Still, these allegations have further roiled investors who already feel victimized by the duplicity of insiders like Enron's Kenneth Lay and Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski, chief executives who made millions unloading shares while urging others to keep the faith.