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To: westpacific who wrote (19070)	10/15/1999 11:48:00 PM
From: amadeus	Respond to of 108040

I now use mytrack and the service is excellent, (see 2MAR$ #19059 above, its all true),but as fate would have it, I took a couple of small long (I thought) positions with a previous account from e&% on Thursday.. In retrospect, had I simply focused on trading opportunities at hand via mytrack Friday morning, I could have done very well with many fire sale bargains and bounces.. but I decided to not maintain any long positions, and it took 40 minutes to make 2 trades thru e&(.. absolutely never again..

To: westpacific who wrote (19070)	10/15/1999 11:57:00 PM
From: jam2000	Respond to of 108040

Hi Westpac, and anyone else unfortunate enough to use TD Waterhouse. I wanted real bad to trade today, but it took an average of 8"to get a "real-time"quote. I kid not...once I brushed my teeth, another time I emptied my dishwasher while waiting. Kide had changed up 3 pts by the time I got the quote, and 5 1/2 up while getting the trade screen-I canceled but was sweating it, in case that didn't go through. When I got through on the phone after 18", they said it must be my connection! And besides, all brokers have problems and insinuated that if I want fast trades, I must be doing something illegal! Whoa..Been meaning to switch for months now, but fear the time it takes to set up a new broker, can be 6 weeks I hear. With this volatility, TDWaterhouse is truly gambling, not trading...