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Non-Tech : E*Trade (NYSE:ET) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ecommerceman who wrote (6556)	5/25/1999 8:48:00 AM
From: fut_trade	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13953

I can't seem to log onto E*TRADE this morning. It's probably overloaded with day traders again. Should provide a big bounce in internet stocks from past experience.

To: ecommerceman who wrote (6556)	5/25/1999 9:21:00 AM
From: Peter Church	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13953

OK, Ecoman, so maybe I was a little flippant about selling for all your worth. It's been a tricky market for both longs and shorts. Harder for the shorts for the most part. Looks like the tide is changing, though. I can't prove it yet, but you won't necessarily make that next 100% gain on the past 500%. REALLy what I was trying to get was a sample of how many day traders try to short stocks. I hypothesize that the majority (%?) don't. They're too new to the game. What will they do when the market trend turns south? Withdraw, go broke on denial and margin? Easy come. Hard to let go. Curious