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To: The Vet who wrote (7015)	2/26/1998 12:19:00 PM
From: Vladimir Zelener	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16892

Vet, So far You are the only one who likes the new clasic interface. Here is the number of corrections which I think should be made to make this new interface better. 1. Make the ticker colomn left justified 2. All fractions replace wit 2 (maybe 3) decimal digits after period 3. Move UP/Down colomn next to the change colomn (let all green/red colomns be together) 4. Insert new colomn: %change from the previous day's close 5. Correct the change colomn, it does not disply negatives 6. Change the color of the negative numbers from dark red to light red for the better contrast with light green 7. Move the colomn volume by two positions to the right to reduce the probability of fields overlapping. If neseccery get rid of last 2 zeros in the volume. 8. Put back field Marginable / Not 9. Put horisontal and vertical lines back, if not much trouble 10. And one more colomn if possible: last 12 months p/e

To: The Vet who wrote (7015)	3/5/1998 12:01:00 PM
From: The Vet	Respond to of 16892

Peter, can you tell me why DATEK does not allow a limit buy order and a limit sell on the same stock? I have tried this several times, and I get the message that "the stock cannot be shorted" and the order is rejected. In all cases I had more than sufficient shares in my account to cover the sell and funds to cover the buy. I wanted to increase my position if the price dropped but sell some if it increased, but I could not place the orders to allow me to do that.