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To: Chip McVickar who wrote (24233)	5/25/1999 11:22:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44573

<Gietzen> I've become a scan artist. Just cannot finish a book anymore. Forget about my bookshelves, you should see my floor. There are places where they are stacked 6 and 8 high. On LeoWeb, A friend told me to set my printer on so I can compare their XMission Time with my computer time and track the T&S. I cannot "get" the T&S on today's latest LeoWeb disaster so I shall print it out in the future and see what happens. They say it was because they have a server that accepts the order and a slower one that XMits the Fill. This does not exactly make my day complete. So next time I shall be able to line up T&S where today I could not. Their clock does not line up to reality. For example, this morning before 10 Eastern I did a fast trade, in and out for just under three points. According to the Fills, the Buy went in at 58:40:20 and the Exit was at 58:42:45 So, I suppose I was Buying at 9:40 EST but who the heck knows for sure. If the Hour is completely wrong how do I know if the minutes are correct? I know it may not seem like much, but getting done where I was Filled ended up in a loss of a thousand dollars a contract. This puts me off a bit. Particularly when the T&S seems to infer that the order should have been done at a better price but I cannot say for certain as I cannot fix T&S closely. Next time, with printing it out, I will be able to determine whether or not it's just sloppy execution (which I suspect that it is). If so, I must go back to calling in the order, as the service may be fine for the e-mini but definitely weak on the spoo end.