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To: TraderAlan who wrote (3629)	9/21/1998 7:33:00 PM
From: GT	Read Replies (1) of 4969

Thanks for that insight Alan. Now for the 64 million dollar question - WHICH BROKER DO WE GO TO ? I am disgusted with Waterhouses' confirmations (hours and days late) but amazed by their ability to get price improvement ALL THE TIME. The price improvement is great - but if you don't know whether you own it or not - you can't sell it ! Datek sounds fast IF you are trading a heavily traded stock with island all over it - but I want to trade bb's (yes - you can CASH IN on bb's as long as you sell immediately after the 300% rise or whatever) and also stocks in the 100,000 to 200,000 daily vol range. I think the price improvement from the discount brokers is due to in-house matched trades between different clients wanting to transact at the same price- so if we can find a broker that reports immediately - with a streamlined order entry page that doesn't time out (fill in the blanks ahead of time and wait) get a a nice data feed from someone else(q charts ?) we might have actually found a way to make $$$ at this crazy game. PLEASE let me know your experiences with on line brokers - Thanks - Gordon

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