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To: LJM who wrote (107)	6/2/1999 1:33:00 PM
From: capitalistbeatnik	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 406

Merrill at this point is about as big of threat to DLJ as Niemann Marcus is to WalMart. Anyone stupid enough to pay 200 dollar commissions for the added benefit of bad advice is too stupid to day trade, and that isn't saying a lot considering the inanity of some of the posts on SI or even worse, Yahoo. I love the brokers in the WSJ articles whining about losing 4 million dollar accounts they never deserved in the first place. Merrill is for fat and happy second generation scum with trust accounts who don't know any better. Serious investors abandoned them a long time ago. A more immediate DLJ problem is they keep losing my paperwork that I Fedexed two weeks ago. So of course they notify me a week late while on holiday. Now I'm in Prague trying to download documents and get them over to the US by Friday. Big pain in the ass I didn't need on vacation.