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Non-Tech : E*Trade (NYSE:ET) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: larry who wrote (2625)	3/20/1998 2:11:00 AM
From: Michel Bera	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13953

Larry and Don, I agree entirely that there are a lot of (big) shorts our there on EGRP stock, due to a bloody price war. There is also a lot of dust, and it seems that as far as now, a classical rule of technology (the first to enter has a very high advantage above competition, at least for a whiloe)has not been enforced by the market (there are 6, 7 buttons to trade on every market net info screen ???). For AMZN, it worked much better, Barnes and Noble being the only competition with a real brand recognition by now. Coke and Pepsi type of market almost already, with BKS having trouble coming up ahead financing all those emptying bookstores (people buying from the Net no longer go to their bookstores). It will take a long time for ETrade competition to quit the game, bleeding to much blood in this price war. The thread is indeed dead in this sense that there seems to be no study on Net trade companies market share being posted : what is ETrade position ? 10%? 20%? is it growing ? A previous Barron's post about rating net trade services is fine indeed, but some figures on market growth and share split would help a lot. I play EGRP as a long term investor, long at $32 (hence bleeding myself and learning a lot from it). Just my two cents, MiB