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To: Cleo who wrote (325)	2/1/1999 9:17:00 PM
From: xcr600	Respond to of 2220

Not short, yet.. 20mln shares traded, and only up only 3. Stock traded 3times the float. Lots of daytraders. Time will tell... x

To: Cleo who wrote (325)	2/1/1999 9:28:00 PM
From: xcr600	Respond to of 2220

Some more... From Briefing.com 2/1/99 -------------- ONLINE BROKERS Online brokerage stocks have the privilege of being selected by daytrader's as the Internet group dejour. Reports of robust Q4 trading volume have helped lifted everyone from industry leader ETrade (EGRP 64 5/8 +9 7/16, +17%) to group laggard JB Oxford Holdings (JBOH 5 15/32 +2 7/8, +111%). Once ETrade and Ameritrade (AMTD 107 1/4 +27, +34%) began taking off, it didn't take long for traders to locate "me-too" plays Siebert Financial (SIEB 20 1/8 +7 13/16, +64%), National Discount Brokers (NDB 26 1/4 +7 1/4, +38%) and Knight/Trimark Group (NITE 50 3/8 +5 3/8, +12%). According to a study conducted by CS First Boston, online brokerages enjoyed their best quarter ever, growing over 34% sequentially to 340,000 traders per day. Online trading now accounts for 13.7% of all trades, up from 11.4% in Q3 and 9.2% in Q4 of '97. In the market share war, Waterhouse moved passed E*Trade to number two in the industry, while Datek jumped over Fidelity to take the number four spot. The survey found that Charles Schwab saw its market share slip 2.9% during the quarter. Shares of Canadian financial institution Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD 43 3/8 +1 1/2, +4%) also managing to participate in the action today, after last week announcing that it was exploring a public offering of the company's discount brokerage business, which includes Waterhouse Securities.