So pre-opening electronic trades for BX in the $40’s were taken off the tape and canceled because the NYSE floor trades had not yet opened. Nice! In auctions there are “shills” that are used to hype prices and run them up. These pre-opening BX bids look like shills to me or if nothing else, free options. CNBC was hyping those trades with their indications being “reported” by Bob Pisani at Knight’s offices. When the floor opened up did they think that we would all just forget about those higher electronic bids? I don’t know the solution but this conflict between the electronic and floor systems really should be handled better.