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To: MaryinRed who wrote (93676)	2/1/1999 8:18:00 PM
From: violatrader	Respond to of 176387

Hi Mary - Your post was interesting to me because I also use a Dean Witter broker - way too espensive, same as you I do my own picks, the expensive commisions keep me from trading too much. Also, my broker has become a sort of mentor to me: he doesn't do the kind of investing(momentum - O'Neil) that I do but he understands it and I discuss all my decisions with him and he looks at charts with me and encourages me and/or warns me. Believe it or not, I have a broker who is a really good person and cares about me and has become an important friend. The commisions still bother me though and I keep wondering if I should change. Last summer, when I was trading on-line and using margin to the hilt and doing options and the market got sick, I lost a very large (for me) amount of money. Mark (my broker) won't let me use margin, which is probably good because I tend to be too impulsive and too dangerous. Mark just told me about the "active trader account" because I was asking him if I could download to quicken. At the moment I'm using "freerealtime" for quotes, but the problem is I can only get one quote at a time. Do your real-time quotes thru your active account work well? I noticed that we have a bunch of the same stocks - excite/athome, cmgi, csco, lu, sunw, I just sold Wcom and of course dell. Today I have my first dell double! Do you think the excite/athome drop at the end of the day means anything, or was it just the market? I hope you will excuse my verbocity. I was excited when I read your post. Emily Karr-Cook (alias Violatrader)