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

To: Bill Rood who wrote (10464)	11/28/1998 2:38:00 PM
From: Pierre Borczuk	Respond to of 16892

I enter lots of datek orders between 9:30 and 10 Like buy 1 share dell for 1$ wait 40 seconds for it to appear open orders...then cancel it...wait another 2 minutes for cancel to be confirmed... Then I try buy 1 dell at $2 ... :) Maybe thats what ties datek up...everyone is doing test trades..not

To: Bill Rood who wrote (10464)	11/28/1998 7:33:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 16892

Yes, check, agree. I am NOT a day trader, but have experienced in my own small way the agony of the uncanceled trade. Sent my Datek pull-out check to deposit yesterday. Will celebrate when it clears and go on to other methods. Spots PS. Some notable praise singers, eg, one R. B., have disappeared silently. Thank goodness. (Come to think of it, perhaps the only long-term consistent one, at that<g>.) Sank without a trace.

To: Bill Rood who wrote (10464)	11/28/1998 10:45:00 PM
From: BradC	Respond to of 16892

<Cost $4500. If I can save 1 person $1> I continue to wonder why any serious day traders stay with Datek. Anyone who is trading at a level where they can lose $4,500 on a single Datek screw up should have graduated beyond browser (slow brokers) by now. Judging from the complaints on this thread it might be more useful if people started posting when Datek servers ARE working before 10:00am! The following post summed up my thoughts on the matter perfectly: Message 6592796 Brad