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Non-Tech : A Reform Proposal for broker access -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: deep_rough who wrote (1)	10/28/1997 2:37:00 PM
From: David O. Adams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18

I too was shut out of Etrade. When I signed up there was no mention that just because the price was inexpensive that in some way the service was less viable. When I used a full sevice broker, I had similar results, during times of high demand he was rarely available immediately and since his company was a market maker in many stocks, I felt as though my market price buy was always above what the realtime ticker was saying. I personally am very hopeful that given time, the discount on line services will expand access. In the meantime if I get in a crunch, I'll take my medicine the same as I did while using a full service broker. If we as individual investors want to participate, it seems that on line investing is our best way, most of the time.