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To: VivB who wrote (2256)	2/7/1999 8:37:00 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 17683

wsj presently taking comments from readers about on-line experiences in order to publish a report. I forwarded my comments on ameritrade. It is irresponsible for these outfits to try to gain mrkt share while they cannot serve existing customer base. I hope they get a heavy fine for misrepresenting themselves. We all know its just about impossible to get on-line or call one of these outfits around the opening/closing or heavy moving day. The systems crash..... Let's have them spend some bucks and upgrade the current systems before they add more clients... JOhn

To: VivB who wrote (2256)	2/7/1999 4:57:00 PM
From: Toby Zidle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

Thanks for the great hint, Viv. The current online brokerage ratings are posted on: keynote.com The current report shows that last week Datek was unavailable more than 10% of the time and Suretrade was unavailable over 25% of the time!! That's a pathetic record. I'm sure people interested in opening online trading accounts would love to know of this site's existence. It's being kept a secret, don't you think? <gg> Ameritrade is up 99.7% of the time. Probably as close to perfect as anyone can get in this business. (Remember to subtract the time your own ISP is down if you're serious about starting to trade online.)