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Gold/Mining/Energy : International Precious Metals (IPMCF) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John D. McClure who wrote (23645)	10/29/1997 11:07:00 AM
From: Larry Brubaker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35569

Long-John: ETrade is $19.95 for NASDAQ (or OTC BB) orders, whether market orders or not. Since almost all of the stocks I buy in my play money fund are NASDAQ (or OTC BB) I think of ETrade as having a flat $19.95 fee. ETrade's fee is $14.95 for listed stocks, although it may be $19.95 for limit orders of listed stocks, not sure since I never buy listed stocks (I was hoping the correction would be deep enough that you could find some bargains with listed stocks). I jumped ship from fidelity 1 1/2 years ago because I got sick of paying their ridiculous commissions. I understand they've come down recently (kind of like closing the barn door after the cows are gone), but understand they are still considerably above ETrade, so I have no interest in going back. I get just as good, if not better, trade execution from ETrade. Biggest complaint with ETrade is that on days like yesterday (very busy), the web site slows to a crawl, and they can take forever to answer the phone.

To: John D. McClure who wrote (23645)	10/29/1997 11:31:00 AM
From: JMB55	Respond to of 35569

O.T. - Long John, consider Waterhouse (http://www.waterhouse.com), no nonsense. $12 for market _or_ limit orders up to 5,000 shares over the 'net. They've been terrific for me. Best of luck. PC Jack PS. Finally defragged my hard drive; got rid of Pointcast, could have been some compressed data they may have supplied - or the cookies. ... So I tossed 'em, the cookies of course, eh eh. Feed on some more IPM today? - yea probablamente! Hungry and Happy Jack