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Non-Tech : E*Trade (NYSE:ET) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richard James who wrote (7303)	6/23/1999 12:09:00 AM
From: Mark Iguchi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13953

Hey there... If price is your primary concern, I would go with Etrade. As long as you can put up with times when their site goes down, I think Etrade is very competitive in all other regards. It does take a while to get in touch with a human being, however. If that's important to you, I find that Schwab is much more responsive...both by phone and e-mail. In fact I find that Ameritrade's email response time is much quicker than ETrades... If you were going to make a few trades a year, I would open a Schwab account, as you can get a debit card to access your money...and they will waive ATM fees when you wish to withdraw money from your account...now only if E*Trade would do something similar... I've been an ETrade customer since 1994 or so, and I've never had a problem with their service, albeit it is sometimes very slow...so with ETrade or Schwab, you can't go wrong. Ameritrade, on the other hand...

To: Richard James who wrote (7303)	6/23/1999 12:38:00 AM
From: Spytrdr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13953

if you're an active trader, at ETrade you'll get ThePulse (a wonderful terminal with streaming Level II quotes, streaming charts, streaming news and portfolios, technical charts, etc) for FREE, and commissions are lower than Schwab's. no other online broker offers that. ETrade is the best online broker without a doubt. the site is not as screaming fast as Amazon's site for example, where pages load in 2 seconds if you use a cable modem, but i'm confident that speed will improve with the new version of the E*Trade site they are about to unveil.