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Non-Tech : Datek Brokerage $9.95 a trade -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richard Sinden who wrote (7673)	4/2/1998 12:59:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16892

to anyone else- is there a cheaper options broker than etrade which is $20 + 1.75 per Don't forget the $29 minimum. I don't remember who it was, but I saw someone's ad in the Investor's Business Daily with option commissions of something like $1.75/contract with a $15 minimum. I sent E*Trade an email asking them when they'd lower their rates to something like that and the reply went something like "Harump! Uh, well, we feel our additional services warrant a higher commission." This may not seem like much of a difference but with a $30 minimum you really can't do the couple of contracts that small fry like me would be dealing with. Sixty bucks on a round trip is a killer.