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Re: Daytrading article in WSJ



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Did you re-enter your limit order today? If I remember, all limit orders at
Datek are for the day only.

In a message dated 11/30/98 9:33:11 PM, hacker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> Speaking of fills, it lloks like Datek screwed me today by holding my
>  order when they should have executed it.  I entered a limit order Friday 
>  to sell shares of Egghead Software at $31 1/2 / share.  Egghead closed at
>  a hair under that price and I was anticipating a spike up in the morning.
>  
>  Well come Monday I got my spike upwards as Egghead soared to $40 / share,
>  however my limit order never executed even though my limit price had been
>  exceeded by 9 whole points!  Egghead traded around $38 / share for a full
>  half hour before plummeting to $25 / share and I never got my fill!
>  
>  Worse, a friend of mine who trades with E-Trade says he experienced the
>  same problem with Egghead in his account this morning.
>  
>  So are the brokerage firms holding our orders and not executing them as we
>  have directed?  Isn't this illegal?  Are there other explanations for
>  this?  If not, I'm going to directthe SEC to look into the matter.
>  
>  - Hacker
>