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To: Char who wrote (18055)	11/28/1998 5:04:00 PM
From: ilh1	Respond to of 119973

Holidays Kick Off Online Retailer 'Portal Combat' zdnet.com By Connie Guglielmo November 25, 1998 12:57 PM ET Santa Claus isn't the only one coming to town this holiday season. In what's shaping up to be what one analyst describes as "portal combat," new and established online retailers -- including Amazon.com Inc. and Yahoo Inc.! -- spent the past week opening new stores and launching shopping programs. Their goal: to establish themselves as electronic-commerce hubs, or portals, designed to capture the hearts, minds and credit- card numbers of as many online consumers as possible during the all-important holiday shopping season. "The big a-ha for '98 was, 'Boy, there are a lot of people out there who are ready to buy products. What can we do to sell to them?' " said Kate Delhagen, a digital commerce analyst at Forrester Research Inc (www.forrester.com). "Among consumers, the Internet has arrived and has started to matter as a viable e-commerce channel." How big a deal will online sales be this holiday season, which retailers say should account for one-fourth to one-half of their annual sales? Anywhere from a record-breaking $2.3 billion at the low end, according to Jupiter Communications LLC, to a high of $3.5 billion, according to Forrester. Overall, consumers are expected to spend $13 billion online in 1998, according to estimates by 127 top online retailers in a study released last week by shop.org and The Boston Consulting Group. Online retailers are doing all they can to push those numbers even higher, with Amazon.com, Buy.com Inc. and newcomer National Media Corp. taking the "superstore" approach to online shopping. Making good on its promise to branch out beyond books, Amazon.com (www.amazon.com) opened an online video store with 60,000 video and 2,000 digital videodisc titles and a holiday gift store featuring consumer electronics, toys and games. National Media goes live this week with a new, for-members-only superstore it claims will offer the lowest prices on 800,000 brand-name products. Consumers who pay the $72 annual fee to join the service, called Everything4Less (www.everything4less.com), will get a refund of 135 percent of the difference if they find a lower-priced product. The stores also enjoy free two-year extended warranties on a variety of goods, and online customers will receive up to 5 percent rebates on their purchases. The week also saw the relaunch of BuyComp.com, a year-old computer reseller, into Buy.com (www.buy.com), a new superstore offering computer products, videos and soon books. Taking an aggregation vs. superstore approach to e-commerce, Yahoo! put a new front end on the build-your-own-store and hosting service it set up midyear after acquiring online store creator Viaweb Inc. Its new Yahoo! Shopping service (shopping.yahoo.com) lets users search for, compare and buy more than 2 million products from the more than 2,700 online stores it hosts. Redefining One-Stop Shopping Some e-commerce portals that have come online recently: Amazon.com Inc. (www.amazon.com): Adds 60,000 consumer electronics products, digital videodiscs, holiday gifts and videos to its already robust collection of books and music. National Media Corp. (www.everything4less.com): Kicks off a multimillion-dollar TV campaign to promote a new, for-members superstore with 800,000 brand-name products and a low-price guarantee. Buy.com Inc. (www.buy.com): Formerly BuyComp.com Inc., Buy.com relaunches as an Amazon.com competitor with books, computer products, games and videos, with plans soon to add music. Yahoo! Inc. (store.yahoo.com): Puts a new front on the 2,700 stores it already hosts that lets users search and comparison shop for products, then place their multistore order using a single shopping cart.

To: Char who wrote (18055)	11/28/1998 5:09:00 PM
From: N2GROWTH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 119973

Remote Trading- Filled in 2-3 Seconds? Everyday, I read post' on this board about bad fills and slow executions. I trade with a Direct Server Connection for $ 20.00 a ticket. I know this is not the cheapest but the fills are instantaneous! I can trade on ISLD, TNTO, ATTN or Direct MY Order To a Specific Market Maker. The execution software cost $250.00 per month and that fee is WAIVED if you Round Trip 50+ trades in a month. I did a market survey of Remote Trading Firms and I found 22 firms offering this service. Most require you to connect over the Internet. I only found 5 who offer a Direct Server Connection. If any of you are interested, send me a private email and I will fax you a copy of the Market Survey I just completed for a new Remote Trading firm. n2growth

To: Char who wrote (18055)	11/28/1998 6:49:00 PM
From: Captain Ed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 119973

What broker do you use? I will have level II starting Dec 1, and at that time I want to dump Ameritrade and go with someone much better. I have been evaluating several quote/charting programs, and using Ameritrade for a while now. I have no problem with their execution of market or limit orders (in fact, they got me out of BNYN at 10, the exact peak on Wednesday on a 9 7/8 limit sell--although they later claimed that I had cancelled that, and so I still have BNYN, but that was later cleared up (I think)). My problem with them is that I often find myself chasing stocks when they go up or down. For example, I will enter a limit sell or buy, find that it has passed me, and then I have to change my order. This usually takes 15 to 20 minutes, after which I find that I have either executed a trade at my change order price, or I now have a new open order, which has been passed again, so I need to drop the trade or issue another change order, etc. Apparently market or limit orders are handled by a computer, but change orders have to be manually handled (or something). I need better change order's, etc. I assume that most people use limit orders to protect themselves from the MM's, but maybe I should be doing things differently. I am relatively new to day and position trading. I am thinking of Etrade or MB Trading. My understanding is that I would be better with someone like MB Trading if I am using level II software and quotes. Any opinions? Suggestions? Market vs limit orders? Limit stops vs stop orders? (I am now convinced that I am better not entering stops...just set a mental stop and sell myself, but maybe I am wrong?)