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To: rocklobster who wrote (8704)	12/22/2000 5:07:34 PM
From: Lee Lichterman III	Respond to of 10876

I am checking and I don't see IB on the list I have. My program says you can get Schwab transactions though. Here is the list I have... Ameritrade, Branch Cabell, Charles Scwab, Cleary Gull, Common Wealth ASsociates, Continental Broker Dealer, Correspondent Services, Datek, Delta Trust Investments, DLJ Direct, Delta Trust, E-trade, Fidelity, JB Hanaeur, Meadowbrook Securities, Merit Capital, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, National Deffered, Nationwide Pensions, Oak Ridge Invest, Paine Webber, Prudential, PSA Equities, Salomon Smith Barney, Securities Corp of Iowa, State Street Research, Sutro , T Rowe Price, TD Waterhouse, The Investment Center, Vanguard Group, Tucker Anthony, US Global Investors, Van Kampen Funds You might try checking Quicken's website to see if they have a more up to date list as I bought this last year when it was the "new" 2000 program. I have used this for the last couple years and like it. It does try to mess me up once in a while because Waterhouse calls thier options some weird in house ticker while you hold it so it wants to change your portfolio around and they also rename their Market Sweep funds on teh new year rollover so Quiken gets confused on Lots but I just ignore it and then let it clear out when I sell the calls and rename the Sweep Funds each January. Once you get used to it like I said, it makes things easy, especially for taxes as I said. If you don't trade that often, then an Excel program would probably do fine, especially if you can learn all the neat things it does. I used to do all my charting using Excel. I only bought a real chart program because I was doing so many charts that Excel would bottom out due to me pushing the graphics too hard and my formulas were bogging down the floating point. Most people don't crunch the stuff I do. <g> Hope this helps, feel free to ask questions about Quicken or Excel if you need to. I will be gone tonight to do some shopping but should be back later and this weekend. Good Luck, Lee