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To: Rande Is who wrote (5644)	4/15/1999 10:55:00 PM
From: EyeDrMike	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

brokerage survery understand Schwab, DLJ, and Etrade all had simultaneous problems, wierd coincidence eh?

To: Rande Is who wrote (5644)	4/15/1999 11:02:00 PM
From: Lola	Respond to of 57584

brokerage survey... my broker is actually Canadian called Investorline and their server was completely down all day on Wednesday, April 14th. I've never seen that happen when it was down all day. On the site it said to do telephone trading (touch phone) instead but you had to wait at least half an hour to get somebody on the phone if you didn't want to do the touch tone thing. I just gave up. Lola

To: Rande Is who wrote (5644)	4/15/1999 11:57:00 PM
From: Tummus1	Respond to of 57584

Rande E*Trade was screwed up for a good part of the day. ooh wee ooh. TW

To: Rande Is who wrote (5644)	4/16/1999 12:12:00 AM
From: Stuart Cole	Respond to of 57584

Brokerage survey I lost $25,000 today because I couldn't place a sell order with my broker (Citibank). I tried to place the order on line but the site locked up or gave a message that "I can't do that" I called the broker on a land line, actually two phones and let them ring on speaker phone. It took over 45 minuets for me to get to a broker and by that time the stock price fell from my original stop limit order of $15 to $9.45. I placed a sell order and got out at $10. This wouldn't be so bad if it was a few shares but I had 5,000 shares. I am changing my broker to Webstreet. My son uses them and get fast accurate execution all day today. They even picked up the phone in a few minutes. Webstreet could of saved me thousands.

To: Rande Is who wrote (5644)	4/16/1999 2:10:00 AM
From: BANCHEE	Respond to of 57584

Rande Brokerage Survey Had real bad day with Waterhouse on Wed. Phone lines, long wait to pick up Very hard to get conformation on trades on PC.. Bad order fills. 3 trades that I'm going head to head with them.. Banchee

To: Rande Is who wrote (5644)	4/16/1999 2:28:00 AM
From: lightfoot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

Brokerage Survey! Conspiracey is more like it! Waterhose down, Mytrac down, fastquote down, free realtime iffy. I was wondering if it wasn't a NASDAQ problem. I froze up at 9:41 on mytrac & then started checking around and everything was slow or down. For the 4th largest trading day in history it sure shows how difficult it can be to exit or enter positions. Watched MMPT hit bottom at $32 and couldn't buy it, watched it all the way to $38 before I was able to get back in to waterhose. The good side, NDB was working OK through all the trauma, and I watched NDB execute a trade later in the day almost instantly. I was shocked, maybe their new servers are working better. Too bad all my cash was in waterhose I couldn't buy MMPT. Personally I'm looking to dump waterhose!

To: Rande Is who wrote (5644)	4/16/1999 7:20:00 AM
From: xcr600	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

Rande, no problems with Datek on Wednesday. I wish I could say otherwise, probably would have saved some money since I tried to play the bounce on a few that never bounced that day. x

To: Rande Is who wrote (5644)	4/16/1999 10:26:00 AM
From: MKTBUZZ	Respond to of 57584

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