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To: cherrypitter who wrote (536)	6/29/1999 10:26:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 1413

Richard ; and you guys hush up about changing the screen ! every time they upgrade your in for a real pain, and sometimes I don't know if it's an improvement. Learn to use work arounds, I day trade and it works just fine the way it is ; if as long as it's not over loaded or some dude is getting a better idea and jacking it around. ----------------- I run four browsers have two accounts and log on both, also have live quotes from quote com running. My market orders are normally fairly fast but could be faster , and I'v learned to bring up the order to the confirm stage , then hold until the bid hit's what I want using my other browser , you can only hold so long as youl time out; so after 3 min or so if I don't like what's going on with my other browser I hit cancel and re-do the order . ---------------------- BTW If your running limit orders you can and should hit attempt to change order when you bring up order status , as if you cancel and put in a new one you may get both orders filled. ---------------------- Anyway If you guys knew the hassles and problems every time the system is upgraded you would want to keep "what works", I don't need the whittles and bells, they have to much of that already, and all it does is slow things up. Live charts on quote com is worth the price, you'l make it back easy on one or two trades , if your any good at trading. It's $24 plus exchange fees for real time quotes.. but watching the block size and all, plus a real time chart is like going from night to day when it comes to trading. All I want web-broker to do is take the order when I hit the confirm button, and keep my history file updated. If it tries to be all things to all people it will be half assed at taking orders , it's slow enough as it is, and the more crap they add to it the slower the server will run and the longer trades will take getting posted. I hate waiting for the order screen to come up some days it's real bad, it's just trying to hard to grind out to much useless stuff to impress the newbies..keep it simple and let it work "fast" I can even get my quotes else where. All the whistle and bells will do is cost you money because of slowing down the server. Jim

To: cherrypitter who wrote (536)	6/29/1999 10:33:00 PM
From: Mama Bear	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1413

"Also need a trading screen that allows you to "change" your order without canceling and starting over," Doesn't just hitting your back button work for you? Barb