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To: yard_man who wrote (4517)	12/8/2003 10:25:40 AM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108745

I like Ameritrade for Canadian trades but nothing is simple the live quotes for me are 10-15 minute delayed and from www.tsx.com only because I choose not to have an added premium service Ameritrade enables easy limit orders for Canadian stocks executions are easy they require a phone call for obtaining bid-ask realtime quotes which I always request with bid and ask size volumes but the trades themselves are done online without aid and they are $11 flat trades, regardless of size bang bang done I highly recommend Ameritrade / jim

To: yard_man who wrote (4517)	12/8/2003 10:41:28 AM
From: gold$10k	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108745

Tippet, I have been using Penntrade for a few years to trade directly on the Canadian exchanges. $30 per trade, no share limits, online, no additional commission for partial fills of multiple days, nice folks. penntrade.com I use Ameritrade for US exchange trading and believe that they access Canadian stocks only through the NASDAQ Bulletin Board where the fills are not nearly as good for the penny stocks. The higher the stock price, the less the difference, although sometimes the BB MM's seem asleep. For real-time quotes from the Canadian exchanges, I use the streamer from new.stockwatch.com for a reasonable monthly fee. vt

To: yard_man who wrote (4517)	12/8/2003 12:21:23 PM
From: gold$10k	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108745

Tippet, I just received a PM advising me that Ameritrade does trade directly on the Canadian exchanges, but you have to do it through one of their brokers (they have a subset of brokers who will place orders on the Canadian exchanges) and the cost is $29.95 for any quantity of shares though you pay again for partial fills on different days. I don't know this for a fact myself, so you will have to check it out yourself. I think very highly of Ameritrade. vt