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Old 10-28-2004, 01:40 PM  
BoNgHiTtA
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Quote:
Originally posted by MattK
Something to consider about online brokers:

if there is some kind of financial panic I would not all my stocks on Etrade or Scottrade

There is no way their servers can handle 1000's of freaked out people trying to sell at the same time.

Well, while theres many reasons I would disagree with you, the main one woul;d be I can still call in and do broker assisted trades at 12.50 it looks like.

The online market orders are at 7
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