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

To: Spots who wrote (7993)	4/21/1998 12:22:00 AM
From: peter michaelson	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 16892

Spots: I'll decide for you. Datek's execution is the very best and their personal service is the very worst. The cost of the few mistakes and inconveniences quantifies out, for me, at $5 per trade, making a total commission of $15 for excellent, immediate execution, availability of shorts, immediate portfolio updates et cetera. It's a good deal. We just can't look for something from them that they have shown they will not provide - it's like asking my wife to speak logically. Once, when I had a problem of monetary substance, I didn't even bother to phone, but sent off a certified letter, return receipt requested, and got an immediate response. Don't ask them to talk to you, they are a humble robot. I'm not much of a talker myself, so I'm sympathetic to their dysfunction. peter

To: Spots who wrote (7993)	4/21/1998 4:45:00 PM
From: LTBH	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16892

New to Datek Questions Hello Spots, Hoped you might help out a new user. What is the blue button with an i inside that I see on many of the screens? If I click on it, I get a secure and unsecure download message. Haven't DLed it yet. Can you explain what I would be downloading and why I should? Canceling a placed but unfilled order. Could you give me a step by step on how to accomplish this? How do I know the cancel took? Thanks Networm

To: Spots who wrote (7993)	4/22/1998 9:12:00 AM
From: pae	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16892

unequivocally ambivalent Nice phrase! When I find a broker who will provide the ability to trade Island AMONG the other choices (SOES, select market-makers, Instinet ...) for @$10/trade and offers integrated (and reliable) Level II for a reasonable charge I will be even more ambivalent. (g) 'Till then I continue to vacillate between waiting for the often promised but seldom seen Datek Level II and giving one of the $20/trade "super-trader" brokers offering Level II a try. Between this crap and taxes, who has time to trade?