I don't know you, and you sound like an OK dude, but I must tell you that everybody cleans up his own mess. I personally had to deal with this a while back. The only way I could come to grips with it was to just assume that whatever happens, it's my fault if things go wrong.
I trade on Level 2. I use a satellite feed. If it rains, I'm down. I have two choices. I piss and moan, or I have a backup plan. It's my money, and it seems that nobody else has as much interest in preserving it as I do. Therefore, I have my Magic Emergency Phone Number (Backup Plan #1).
I'm not saying that Etrade didn't screw up. What I am saying is that if I had an account with Etrade, and somehow got into trouble and lost a grand because I couldn't get through for whatever reason, one time, then I am friggin' gone. I find a firm where I can get execution, and if it costs me $300 a month, then that's what it costs. I can make that on one trade.
And then, I have Backup Plan #1, and I have a Backup Plan #2 if Backup Plan #1 goes sour. If somebody screws me, I have it in writing, and I can prove it. But I have never had to use it, all I've ever needed was Backup Plan #1 and a friendly phone call pointing out that there was an error. No problem, fixed, thank you very much and goodbye.
That's the way I play the game; I play to win no matter who is making the rules, because it is my damn money. Everybody wants it, and I just do whatever it takes so I keep it. |
