Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : EFAX.com - easy-to-use fax-to-email technology -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jacksoo who wrote (473)	3/16/1999 11:11:00 AM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1197

I don't know you, and you sound like an OK dude, but I must tell you that everybody cleans up his own mess. I personally had to deal with this a while back. The only way I could come to grips with it was to just assume that whatever happens, it's my fault if things go wrong. I trade on Level 2. I use a satellite feed. If it rains, I'm down. I have two choices. I piss and moan, or I have a backup plan. It's my money, and it seems that nobody else has as much interest in preserving it as I do. Therefore, I have my Magic Emergency Phone Number (Backup Plan #1). I'm not saying that Etrade didn't screw up. What I am saying is that if I had an account with Etrade, and somehow got into trouble and lost a grand because I couldn't get through for whatever reason, one time, then I am friggin' gone. I find a firm where I can get execution, and if it costs me $300 a month, then that's what it costs. I can make that on one trade. And then, I have Backup Plan #1, and I have a Backup Plan #2 if Backup Plan #1 goes sour. If somebody screws me, I have it in writing, and I can prove it. But I have never had to use it, all I've ever needed was Backup Plan #1 and a friendly phone call pointing out that there was an error. No problem, fixed, thank you very much and goodbye. That's the way I play the game; I play to win no matter who is making the rules, because it is my damn money. Everybody wants it, and I just do whatever it takes so I keep it.