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

To: BoNg-N-BoNg who wrote (12982)	8/6/1999 10:59:00 AM
From: reikjavic	Respond to of 16892

yep . DATEK screwing big time , idiots

To: BoNg-N-BoNg who wrote (12982)	8/6/1999 11:11:00 AM
From: Gary Yu	Respond to of 16892

I still can't enter order at 11:05. What's going on?

To: BoNg-N-BoNg who wrote (12982)	8/6/1999 11:20:00 AM
From: EK	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16892

All is not well. I have packed it in for the day. I got off one trade on one express server in one account. Very, very slow. Closed all three accounts and I am out of here. Still evaluating other Brokers carefully. Caution... be careful trading Datek today. Last week on NYSE stock I had 1/2 hour wait to cancel an order and execute a trade. They told me they had 1500 orders in limbo-- third party trouble with MADOLF? NADOLF? The trade went against me in that stomach-wrenching 1/2 hour and bounced back to where I lost only $250. It could have been much worse. I am wrangling with them on getting that $250 back. I printed the daily activity log that dated and stamped that 1/2-hour of canceling limbo. Neither the messages nor the daily activity shows the limbo time elapsed after the fact. They were gracious enough to warn me not to cancel any more NYSE stocks that day. Imagine for a moment having $65,000 on the table and being unable to execute a sell. -- Who needs the thrill of sky diving with a faulty parachute!