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Non-Tech : AMERITRADE HLD A (NASDAQ:AMTD) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Darth Trader who wrote (336)	9/6/1998 3:27:00 PM
From: brian z	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1848

The CEO of Ameritrade keeps lying to media and customers all the time. He really has a stupid loser's attitude. I am going to close my Ameritrade account later this month after option expiration and ask people here do the same! The following is from The street.com Joe Ricketts, Ameritrade's chairman and chief executive, says the same piece of middleware technology is to blame for both problems. It started causing problems in the spring and, since then, the company has been replacing it for blocks of accounts. Ricketts said the technology would be completely replaced by next Friday. On Monday, Ameritrade's biggest volume day ever, Ricketts says there were no technology problems. Thursday was also clear, he says, but Friday there were three minutes of downtime around the open.