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To: Gerald Merna who wrote (355)	2/19/2000 10:19:00 PM
From: JD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 571

Yes, "complete struggle" is a pretty good description, although I had a little better luck Friday at TRAC. I have found that 95% of the time, if an order does not get done in 10 minutes, it will never get done. True at both TRAC & AMTD for OTC-BB's. 1 out of 3 orders got filled @ TRAC this week, 3 out of 4 at AMTD (although on fast moving BB's I will not even try AMTD because of the phone time involved). TRAC's great strength is in its ability to get the order to HRZG or NITE with the click of a button....but its weakness is that most of these orders (speaking from my experience this month, of course) do not get executed. TRAC's MyTrade worked pretty good all week, only thing I noticed was a few slowdowns (for the first time since the big "fix") in delivery of intra-day chart data (3 day X 1 min. would take 15-30 seconds to load). Got disconnected from AIQ real-time data flow once on Thurs & twice on Friday, and noticed a slow down in the rate of data flow there, also. Looks like they may be starting to reach the limits of their new, third server for MyTrade (which makes sense because they have gained about 50% in trading volume....5K to 7.5K per day). The strengths of MyTrade still outweigh the no-fills - I think it is the best trading platform for OTC-BB's, and the no-fill problem occurs at HRZG & NITE. Jerry