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To: Carlson who wrote (4233)	11/30/1998 10:59:00 PM
From: shane hartman	Respond to of 8307

>I would like your comment on Fidelity. Is is easy to place trades >with a broker or on the intenet. I got hosed again by Water Hose >Securities. Even on the heaviest days and the most volatile stocks (like EGGS today) I have had my orders taken from the web site. Its clunky and a page drawing is slow but it always works. Active trader discount is 14.95. 19.95 otherwise. Automated phone orders accepted. I have never had a busy signal. You can trade with a human if you want but I have never done this in 15 years. I use fidelity because I started there with mutual funds. And when I hear about horror stories like yours, I won't leave for a discount broker. If I change, it will be for a real trading setup with realtick like MB Trading. But I will need to retire to have time to use that effectively ;) If a trade gets screwed up they have complete history. This happened to me once and they fixed it immediately. I like em.

To: Carlson who wrote (4233)	11/30/1998 10:59:00 PM
From: HECTOR RUBERT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8307

AVOID SURETRADE!!! I've used SURETRADE now for a few months but today took the cake. Couldn't login all morning and their touchtone service was down too. This smells like a rat. Small investors got shafted. I keep hearing the same story in different boards. "Couldn't login, 20min waits, and no touchtone service". While the stocks are crashing, there was nothing the individual investor could do. MM's and brokerages stole our $$$. While we were trying to save our profits, they were bleeding our stocks. I'll be looking over to DLJ. It's $20 per trade but I haven't heard any horror stories from them plus they offer IPO's opportunities for accounts over $100k. Hector