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To: Guy E. Fleming who wrote (2967)5/5/1997 2:20:00 PM
From: bh   of 13594
 
>Tom, pardon me for interceding as well but I've had good experience with
"Charles & Co." by trading e.Schwab online rather than directly via
modem. You can set this up by simply requesting it from them. You
benefit from the $29.95 rate and have a more stable/reliable system,
IMO. They also answer E-mail promptly (withing 24 hours) in my experience.<

I am not sure about the distinction you are making. There is e.Schwab in which you dial in, and e.Schwab accessed through the net. I assume you are speaking of the latter (wouldn't you use a modem to either contact Schwab or your ISP?). My own experiece is that dialing into e.Schwab is much better than web trading on the net. The web trading people are universally incompetent and have never failed to answer a question incorrectly, including making a habit of contradicting each other. Have you ever tried to trade option with e.Schwab? Well, if you happen to place a fill-or-kill order on e.Schwab, expect it to be filled or killed within a half an hour. They admit that it does not even make it to the options floor within five minutes. Would you interpret that as a fill-or-kill order? Anyway, to put it simply, they stink, although IMHO, the dial-up version, which is almost always accessible (unlike the web trading in which the server is frequently down), is a far cry better than web trading.
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