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This is an atypical day, but will help those service providers who
choose to. A chance to re-evaluate there systems. My Datek fill was
still in less than a minute. It took me so damn long to get between the
bid & the ask. Kept moving on me.
Even at 40 minutes, that isn't all that bad. A great deal of folks can't
even get past the busy signal. Gotta love that technology.
Harley
Chip Anderson wrote:
> DLJ's internet software was also flakey at times today. I placed an
> order for INTC that took over 40 minutes to fill. Very stressful.
> CNBC is reporting that lots of people are having trouble reaching
> brokers. Seems like my experience may have been typical.
>
> Chip
>
> ---Harley Meyer wrote:
> >
> > I covered at 23 for a gain of about 17%.
> > Oh it was near the high. So I suspect that they were waiting for me.
>
> You
> > know here comes Harley's order. Now lets go the other way.
> >
> > I took another position at 22 1/4 just in case.
> >
> > I am glad I didn't sell my long positions, they are holding well. In
>
> > fact some are even up. But it is still early.
> > It traded as low as 17, but buy the time I got around finding that
> the
> > quotes were off. The market had moved up.
> >
> > Over all the Express order server worked very well at Datek. Placing
>
> > orders were very fast considering the demand on there quote servers.
>
> > They were a bit slower, but were the only game in town for me to get
>
> > reliable quotes.
> >
> > As far as the data provider PCQuote, the Excel support also held up
> &
> > had correct quotes. The PcQuote for windows rt 6.5 was having server
>
> > problems. The quotes were behind, however the last was generally
> good.
> > As far as I could tell the market data was correct. SO some data was
>
> > good other not so good at times. I just shut down PcQuote for
> windows rt
> > 6.5 and restarted. I am now on a back up server. Seems that it is ok
>
> > now. Usually the backup servers handle the job.
> >
> > But my guess is that most folks are having trouble with quotes.
> >
> >
> >
>
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