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Non-Tech : MB TRADING -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Francis Ou who wrote (5047)	7/18/1999 12:01:00 AM
From: agent99	Respond to of 7382

Yes, MBT has Dow Jones News at the same price as ABW; but ABW's feed also includes PRN and Businesswire releases as well as a few more feeds. Clearing through SWS (MBT) was always an adventure with all of the errors. In short, they're horrendous. Penson (ABW) has been much better; Their website is great because you can slice and dice information any number of ways and the data is clear and understandable. SWS' account data is a mess. And Penson's Quicken download link has worked like a charm every time (something that MBT doesn't have, although there's a program that u can lease called StockTax that accomplishes the download but which i found cumbersome to use). FWIW 99