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Non-Tech : Datek Brokerage $9.95 a trade -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Esteban who wrote (11351)	3/24/1999 8:46:00 PM
From: Sir Francis Drake	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16892

Datek - a wish list! Esteban - I think we should quit this Datek love fest, or it'll go to their heads<ggg>! Seriously, there are several areas they could improve, and most of those have been pointed out. What I'd like to do is perhaps push them to do some things that are "wish list" things... First, what I'd absolutely love, would be if we could have a little window open (sort of like the streamer) in which the status of the order would actively pop up (pending, exectuted etc) - maybe using some java applet. I'm not that technically literate to know how hard that would be to do, how much bandwidth it would eat up - at our end and at their end, and generally how much of a pain in the butt that would be. Maybe this is asking too much - but boy would that do me a world of good - instead of the distraction of going to Daily Activity pages and refreshing. Not only does it take time, but it takes your eyes away from the action for too long. And you have to keep wondering what's going on. An active window would be a God-send. As it stands now, after dozens of trades and dozens of cancellations it's a hassle just to scroll down the long page (in the interim, the earlier suggestion of putting the most recent trades on top would be helpful). Datek are you listening? If you want to get TERRIBLY ambitious, please consider these (maybe unrealistic) wishes! Anyone want to add to the "wish list"?