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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (51618)	4/19/1999 10:44:00 PM
From: Impristine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

yup, and i hope that provides some stability...

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (51618)	4/19/1999 10:45:00 PM
From: Jan Crawley	Respond to of 164684

has 70% maintainance requirements on Yahoo and Amazon, plus 60% on AOL...since April 9. Many has 100% cash requirement.

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (51618)	4/19/1999 10:46:00 PM
From: Y2k_fan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

And people still did not wake up.

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (51618)	4/19/1999 11:47:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

I actually the margin requirements at Schwab are tighter than that William. At Discover Brokerage amzn, yhoo, ebay are not marginable at all. Theres a whole lot like that (all the leaders) and then another group which are 50% marginable. My gnet and dclk are in that basket which is why I have margin. Of course if you have a large account you can negotiate but I noticed a change in the daily swings of the large stocks (esp amzn and yhoo) after these margin requirements were implemented. Of course I am only talking individuals here, the fund mgrs probably margin at will. But they are supposed to be more level headed (?)