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To: Investor Clouseau who wrote (1902)	3/3/2001 7:04:30 PM
From: JamesB	Respond to of 2005

Customer service with Mytrack has shown significant improvement over the past 6 months of more. No OLB can ever get it right all the time, but at least they have been listening and working to correct problems as they occur. News feeds, L2 data feeds, market maker routing etc.

To: Investor Clouseau who wrote (1902)	3/3/2001 9:18:41 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2005

Investing Activity Slows Dramatically Individual investors kept feeding the 1990s bull market, as new technology and lower commissions enabled them to make cheaper and more efficient trades. By 1999, 48.2 percent of U.S. households owned equities, compared with only 32.5 percent a decade earlier, according to the Securities Industry Association. But the prolonged market slump has turned some investors from the market, and they have taken away business from brokerages and mutual funds alike. Customers at the largest U.S. discount brokerage, Charles Schwab Corp. (NYSE:SCH - news), called in 281,800 stock trades in January, a 26 percent decline from a year before. New customer accounts slumped dramatically at Schwab's largest rival, TD Waterhouse Group Inc. (NYSE:TWE - news) (Toronto:TWE.TO - news), in its first quarter. Only 160,000 customers set up new accounts, down 38 percent from the first quarter of 2000. Top brokerages aren't the only ones getting hit. Investors pulled an estimated $12.5 billion out of stock funds in February, based on activity through Feb. 22, according to California-based data service Trim Tabs.com. Monthly outflows from stock funds have been rare in the past dozen years. Dramatically lower levels of margin debt clearly indicate investor caution. Trading stocks on margin means a customer borrows money from a brokerage to buy more stock. Margin debt hit a record $278.5 billion at the Nasdaq's peak a year ago, according to the New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites). It has since fallen 30 percent to $197.1 billion. Investors, who typically borrow more in rising markets to get their hands on as many shares as they can, face margin calls if their portfolios fall below a certain value. That means they have to pay back their loans or have their stocks sold out from under them, which can take a deep bite out of their holdings. ``The people that really got stung bad ... have slowed down,'' Quick & Reilly's McGraw said. ``By the end of the year, they were kind of done (trading on margin).'' Investors also seem to have foregone those daily -- sometimes hourly -- checkups of their portfolios, a common practice when they were dreaming of retirement with their high-flying investments. ``People just don't want to count it when it doesn't look that good,'' McGraw said.

To: Investor Clouseau who wrote (1902)	3/3/2001 9:33:02 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2005

Clouseau , I have never mentioned a problem with TRAC in the past , that didn't turn out to be so . I also don't mention frivously now , that there have been problems with newsfeeds cutting out during the high-rate of PR's coming out after-hours during earning's season . It is an annoyance only , and not a condemnation of TRAC in general. But it is a fairly serious annoyance if you are interested in reading the the earnings release of a company after hours and your news feeds are overloaded , and not responding. Your statement of : " I've never noticed any problems with the after hours news feeds " carries so little value in addressing or correcting this recurring problem, as we have seen throughout many many months in the past , when TRAC was having so many problems , you *never* experienced ever a problem then....though many many other's were. Don't start this foolishness all over again , because you are a shareholder. It is non productive and untruthful. There have been problems with news feeds, this past month or more , though mainly sporadic , but happening at a crucial time in the afterhours. It may or may not be TRAC's fault , but may be within their power to make it more stable. I am not here to discuss revenues or trade volumes here with you , only to report an annoying problem. Though I would be happy to discus those as well if you like . regards Mars