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To: Dan Swartzendruber who wrote (829)	2/19/1999 6:30:00 PM
From: Jeff Jordan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1463

I to would like to know more...I printed all their forms...from preferred capital markets site. I didn't see where you go online to trade or mention of their software? I also haven't seen anything on DBC site. I'm ready to do some ecn trading...can you trade before/after market w/ your preferred capital account? Are you using stockedge or signal online? I just spotted this link: dbc.com preferredtrade.com

To: Dan Swartzendruber who wrote (829)	2/20/1999 1:29:00 PM
From: d. alexander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1463

Thank you for the good report on your experience so far. I had real trouble connecting this AM, but that may have been network problems. Raises a bit of a red flag. I'm with Ameritrade (which segued from Aufhauser) & have never used anything more complicated. The problem, it seems to me, is not so much execution - tho the site is peppered with warnings that market orders may not execute at or near & stop orders may not execute at or near - BUT that when there's any kind of urgency to place a trade, you can't even get through to their website, if you do get thru your order is likely to time out, & if you call them the line is busy. So this all gets factored into your trading in a negative way :-) very little point in opening a minimum $5K account, since the minimum to keep an account marginable is also $5K! Very glad to know about this. I mailed in the application with wire transfer checked, but may not be able to handle that after getting caught in the recent (we hope) downdraft, partly due to not being able to place trades at crucial times. I agree thet I wouldn't want to rely on someone being reasonable. Really strange, since there was enough depth there. I don't really know what this means, but am curious :-) Also, would describe myself as a position trader, so "swing trading" (esp as requiring only plain vanilla data feed) is not in my lexicon?? Again, many thanks & sorry this is so long. d.alexander BTW - Ameritrade has 50% margin requirement on many Inets (list grows every day), otherwise the following Ameritrade will no longer allow any loan value for stocks trading at or below $5 per share. For stocks greater than $5 and less than $10 per share, a minimum equity of $3 per share will be required. For stocks greater than $10 per share, a minimum equity of 30% of the stock's value will be required (as of March 1)