To: accountclosed who wrote (88571 ) 1/16/2001 5:42:02 PM From: Knighty Tin Read Replies (1) | Respond to Ant, I am not as big a cheapskate on commissions as I am on other things. In this case, most of the stuff has to go through real brokers, though at a discounted, or, what they call "negged down" rates. Still much higher than the discounters and more than worth it. Brown is great, but they simply can't handle a lot of my trades. Nor can any discounter. They don't do futures at all and they can't really do option spreads well enough to use them. They are also nowhere in bond trades, metals or currencies and in foreign stocks and bonds, fuhgettaboutit. For the partnership, I used a full service Japanese brokerage firm which required me to give them a bit of on the job training for much of this stuff. To the credit of the folks I talked to, they learned fast.
