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To: HeyRainier who wrote (1556)	3/24/1999 9:02:00 PM
From: HeyRainier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1720

[ E*Trade and DELL ] Have you heard all the talk in the newspapers about trades at the online brokerages just not executing? Well, it seems that those newspaper stories have finally hit home. About 7:00 am (PST) this morning, I placed a Market Order to purchase DELL, then quoted at 35 13/16 at the ASK. I came back later, and lo and behold, I got a message that my order was cancelled!! (Expletives cross my mind at that point--feel free to imagine.) Hmm. Well, by this time, DELL had escaped my buy price, and what a buy price it would have been too. In the past 12 months, there have been only four entry points signaled by my technical indicators for a reversal-entry into DELL: 1. The close of 8/31/98 2. The Hammer close of 10/8/98 3. The close of 2/19/99, and 4. The close of 3/23/99. It has been suggested by my broker co-worker to file a complaint with the Nasdaq and the SEC. We'll see what happens. RT