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To: Jon Tara who wrote (6774)	2/11/1998 2:12:00 PM
From: Glenn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16892

Speaking of spreads, I just got a quote on B that reads: bid=27 1/2; ask=27 5/8; last 36 1/16; chg= +8 1/2 Checked both orders9 and orders3, new and old, same stuff. Went to SureTrade's realquotes and received: Symbol B; Last 27 1/2; Change - 1/16; Bid 27 7/16; Ask 27 5/8; High 27 9/16; Low 27 1/2 That kind of stuff can jerk a guy's heart out if he didn't check it out and reacted on Datek's quotes! Come on, Datek!

To: Jon Tara who wrote (6774)	2/12/1998 5:32:00 AM
From: Scott Pedigo	Respond to of 16892

Scott, was this today or yesterday? Well, it was Wednesday, which when you asked was "today", but now is yesterday. There should not have been trades below your offer, unless they were before the market opened. That's what I thought. The opening trade on BROD today was at 22 1/8, and it rose from there. I guess that implies that the trade for 21 1/4 was indeed before the market opened. Later in the day the price dropped back down and I finally did get filled, but I missed the opportunity for a nice day trade. I'm not a day trader by profession, but I know that some day traders do use DATEK. It seems inevitable that DATEK is going to screw up the occasional order, so traders should take that into account, as well as the likelihood of Internet and/or server traffic jams which periodically block one from entering an order at a critical moment.