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Non-Tech : Datek Brokerage $9.95 a trade -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sniper who wrote (5599)	10/27/1997 8:37:00 AM
From: 007	Respond to of 16892

Sniper, after that last post, I can only hope you become dissatisfied with SI and close your account here.

To: Sniper who wrote (5599)	10/27/1997 6:56:00 PM
From: Crabbe	Respond to of 16892

Sniper:. Estimated profruit.. lemme just say that I USED TO BE a supporter of Datek.. until the quality started going DOWNHILL. Was it the quality of trades, or was it the unintellegence of trades, that has cost you so much money lately? There is every now and then a person who comes on this thread and starts crying about how bad Datek is. The last one that reminds me of your posts was a young man named Eddie Collins. It was all Dateks fault, Datek sucked, etc. But Eddie admited that he had lost more than he wanted to afford. How about you are you making stupid trades in a down market and your strategy just doesn't work at the moment? I've been there, it hurts, but the more mature of us realize that it is our fault, not Dateks, and if we want to stop the bleeding we had better find the right way to trade in this market, not just keep trading like we did in yesterdays market. Trading stocks is dynamic. conditions change, if a person is intellegent they adapt, if they aren't they cry an awful lot, bitch about everything connected, and probably get drunk. It boils down to if you were making money you would be happy, as you are not happy you must be losing money. If you are losing money and continue to lose money you aren't very smart. If all you can do about it is continue to blaim Datek then you won't correct your problems, and in any case when you go broke and can't trade anymore you will get tired of haranging Datek and you will go away. Maybe you are intellegent enough to realize that the basis of your troubles start with you, that there is only one thing in this world that you have the power to change, and bitching about correlated events is not the solution. When you reach that point you will be ready to find the way to make money in any market. Sniper I hope for your sake you find the perfect broker, and I hope your strategy for trading works with him. But maybe in a month we will be able to go to the Watley thread and read about how Watley Sucks. Maybe.............. Rod Dream a little