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

To: Thanh T. Phung who wrote (2889)	5/8/1998 1:06:00 AM
From: Bikergirl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13953

You are missing the point of trading. A brokerage firm should allow you access to get a trade in whenever you want, routing your trade quickly. Just because EGRP was incompetent, and the market moved in your favor, is no reason to stay with them. What if it went the other way? By the way, if the two examples you cited are indicative of your trading acumen in general, you should probably either buy mutual funds, or buy no brainer stocks(INTC,MSFT,CSCO,CA,PSFT,ORCL,etc.) and just hold them for 5 years. You will be much happier.

To: Thanh T. Phung who wrote (2889)	5/8/1998 11:05:00 AM
From: Steve Morytko	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 13953

EGRP's up-time is excellent and it's much more likely that a network component between your system and the ETrade site(s) (there are probably 20 or more) is not working properly when there are "ETrade problems". Of course, you could open an account with some other brokerage and maintain 2 accounts and test them both when one seems to go down - I don't necessarily recommend it. You should also ask yourself whether you can honestly expect not to have any problems using another service (only in your dreams). ETrade's services are much* better than most other services too. I'm neither long, short, or straddling - just a very satisfied customer.

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