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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1997 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: sheldon spivak who wrote (6251)10/29/1997 9:24:00 AM
From: Mengistu ejigu  Respond to of 9285
 
Hello Timoteo

I use Lombard,Waterhouse,schwab,Etrade and all of them were down

yesterday.I lost a lot of $$$ just because of that.i think this is

a very serious problem for small investors.We could have made a lot of

money yesterday.

Good Luck,

Ej



To: sheldon spivak who wrote (6251)10/29/1997 11:06:00 AM
From: Jon Tara  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 9285
 
Sheldon, it is simply unreasonable to expect perfect executions under these market conditions. Yes, it IS hopeless. What you should do to prevent this in the future is to avoid trading in record-making markets.