To: Jerry Olson who wrote (107 ) 5/26/2001 9:59:14 PM From: - Respond to of 565 Hi OJ, Good to hear from you! No, none of us have been affiliated with any other firm except our own, since early 2001. I never worked for Oliver -- just co-moderated a room strictly on a volunteer basis (that was the only way I'd do it) there for a while. Actually I haven't worked for anyone (except myself) since 1991. I consider that to be one of my finest accomplishments ;) Deron & Ed have gone entrepreneurial/self-employed now as well. We wish our old friends and former colleagues at Pristine (and other firms were we have friends we sort of compete with) well. There is plenty of room in the trading business for all kinds of advisory services and operations; we feel ours is unique and different enought that it will attract customers on it's own merits. Thanks for the good luck wish, we are off to a good start... customers have signed up from all over the world and we haven't done a lick of marketing. We are creating a high quality trading environment for ourselves and our members which we will run in a fashion that we're comfortable with and where we'll innovate. An example - our audio provider dropped the ball a few days - everyone was credited for those days as an extension (even our trialers). And we've innovated by mixing in real-time graphics during the day. Also, a very slick piece of software which generates a "position minder" that shows everything we're in in real-time, the date/time we entered along with the price, where our initial stop was located, and and changes in the stop or partial sales, etc. We have a lot of other cool stuff planned and think it will be a profitable adventure for everyone involved, especially our customers (actually, it has been already for them, we've been told). Good trading!, Steve