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Non-Tech : Former Harrisdirect customers who are not happy with Etrade -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (36)	1/27/2006 4:28:51 PM
From: Dave	Respond to of 54

<<<<Been looking at interactive brokers and I will probably be going with them once my etrade account gets straightened out, heard a lot of good things about them.>>>> redfish I too have been looking at other brokers. FWIW, AAII (american association of individual investors) members rate Scottrade the best. I have looked at interactive brokers, bank of america, fidelity and ameritrade. From the online data I have a hard time finding any detail. Afraid of jumping from bad worse. None of the firms (except bank of america) have an office here; I would like someone I can look in the eye and complain. I still haven't been able to telecon e-trade and talk to someone. No transactions from Harris since 1/13/2006. Made one buy and found the transaction in one place but not another. Hopefully things will get straightened out by the end of the month??? Dave

To: redfish who wrote (36)	1/27/2006 9:38:11 PM
From: James Hutton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54

I've been looking at Fidelity. I like the fact that they are a huge institution (now that I've got a bunch of cash), plus the fact that they are not going to get bought out like Lombard, Dean Witter, and everyone else who ended up with Harrisdirect. I stopped in at the local Scottrade branch yesterday to get their shpeel, but I think Scottrade will be sucked up relatively soon also. I'd go to direct access like trade station, but I don't trade quite enough to warrant the monthly cost. I definitely don't want to get into ameritrade. It's not much different than etrade. Don't know much about Interactive Brokers or Options Express, but have heard good things about both. Scottrade said they need seven days without trading to transfer the account. I assume everyone else is comparable on that issue. Yikes, I might get the DTs if I have to do that.