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To: TraderAlan who wrote (10612)	11/9/2000 4:38:29 PM
From: Ken Adams	Respond to of 18137

And my 74 cents rests comfortably since '98 in my "closed" Ameritrade account. Funny stuff, this.

To: TraderAlan who wrote (10612)	11/9/2000 7:00:24 PM
From: WaveSeeker	Respond to of 18137

When I wrote FX trading software in the 80's, we used to round off the currencies and direct the excess into a special account. Eventually it grew to 4.3 million dollars before we fled the country. Or at least that's what we always dreamt about doing! WS

To: TraderAlan who wrote (10612)	11/13/2000 7:54:09 AM
From: TraderAlan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18137

This should take care of those outstanding pennies. But the sword cuts both ways. If our informal poll is correct, their open accounts #s should plummet next year: "Under pressure to add more and more services but also boost the bottom line, newfangled online brokerages are turning to an age-old Wall Street practice -- fees. TD Waterhouse (TWE:NYSE - news) and E*Trade (EGRP:Nasdaq - news) say they plan to institute a $15 quarterly fee on brokerage accounts with less than $5,000 in assets at the end of this year. " Alan