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Non-Tech : Datek Brokerage $9.95 a trade -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RockyBalboa who wrote (12558)	6/22/1999 10:34:00 PM
From: Sir Francis Drake	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16892

I agree that recently Datek has improved - but there are still significant problems, in my experience. Slow servers - unpredictably not always at the open, but sometimes in the middle of the day. Or like today's problems with orders not appearing on express server 16 - which leaves you no way of cancelling in either Open Orders, or Daily Activity. Granted, this doesn't happen often, but it's unnerving. However, overall, compared to a month ago, definitely an improvement. And executions continue to be the best in the business. I say that even though today I lost $ - but it was due to my own boneheaded trades, not due to Datek technical problems. I prefer it that way, rather than my doing things correctly, but Datek screwing it up. Keep up the good work, Datek! Morgan