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Pastimes : ETRADE Sucks! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ratan lal who wrote (1040)	4/30/1998 9:38:00 AM
From: DD™	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3262

Having trouble again this morning. Have been frozen out of my account. I get the follwoing.. Server Error This server has encountered an internal error which prevents it from fulfilling your request. The most likely cause is a misconfiguration. Please ask the administrator to look for messages in the server's error log. DD

To: ratan lal who wrote (1040)	5/30/1998 2:10:00 PM
From: Kurt N	Respond to of 3262

Execution of Market orders is done on a first come/first served basis, so any pending sell market orders must be executed before yours. Also PFE is a NYSE stock which slows down execution a bit as compared to Nasdaq, since there are human beings (specialists) that match buyers with sellers. You only lost 9/16 (.5625) on a stock that was trading for $115, which is a really small amount (~.5%) Stocks like PFE can easily move up/down half a point at a time. If your market sell order got executed half a point above you'd be praising E-Trade. Is E-Trade perfect??? No. Kurt