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[Calvin Powers <calvin AT cspowers.com>]

Greetings fellow internetworkers,

I could use a recommendation for a brokerage firm, preferable an online 
firm, but not necessarily.

I started out with E*Trade and bought quite a few shares through them. But 
since then I've been sitting on them, hoping to weather the dot-com bust.

Well, E*trade started a policy in which they are going to charge you an 
"account maintenance" fee if you don't have any trades in a certain time 
period. (I think it was 6 months). Arrrgh. How silly is that? So I dropped 
them like a hot potato and switched to Datek.

So in the past day or so, I got a similar notice from Datek. They had a 
different name for the fee but it's the same idea. They charge you a fee if 
you don't execute any trades in a certain time period.

So now I'm shopping around again for a brokerage firm. Anyone have any 
recommendations? I only occasionally buy and sell shares. Mostly I'm 
looking for a place to park my shares and ride out the hard times.



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Calvin Powers                                             current events
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