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Non-Tech : E*Trade (NYSE:ET) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: hcm1943 who wrote (4843)	2/4/1999 5:27:00 PM
From: Cosmo Daisey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13953

hcm, I recall with vivid memories my experience with real brokers. I would call him to place an order and he would be away from his desk, in the toilet, out to lunch, in a meeting, etc. I would leave a message and sometimes he would call me before the mkt. closed and sometimes he would wait and tell me he was too busy to call. I changed brokers several times and they were all the same. If things worked perfectly I would get a confirmation about 1/2 hour after I placed the order. Yesterday I placed a trade with ETrade and got a fill and closed the position with a $310 gain total time, 20 minutes. My old broker would still be at lunch. The one great quality my old broker had was he was such a nice guy he would discount the commission, all the way down to $275.00. He calls me about once a month and I ask him if he is recommending AOL, DELL, AMZN, EGRP, TGLO, all stocks I have traded successfully and he tells me those stocks aren't on his firms recommended list. We compare volume from his system and my real time ETrade quotes and he is always behind in the count. The alternative to ETrade is not Schwab, Siebert, Datek, and the other online brokers because they all go down too because of growing pains. The alternative is Joe Shit the broker at Not a Clue Inc. Where do you want to trade? The talking heads are all pissed off that their crap stocks aren't doing well but they won't take part in the real market that has emerged as a result of online brokers. Suck it up, hcm, the market we have today is the result of the empowerment of the individual rather than the broker depicted in the ETrade commercial. He made $2000 and he owed it all to me in commissions. Been there, done that. cdaiseyPHD@fix-the-problem.com