schwab off-line again

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Just heard on the radio that Schwab's on line trading system went down again today. What's going on?

-- wondering (mgrmos@aol.com), October 21, 1999

Answers

Lots of Y2K last minute testing goin' on this week and next. Morgan Stanley is _deep_ in the test phase two right now. Possibly having an effect? anyone else know?

-- Billy Boy (Rakkasan@Yahoo.com), October 21, 1999.

Now is a good time for the "on-line" brokerage firms to have "planned problems". It keeps clueless finger-happy day traders from screwing up the market even worse......not a mistake

-- karen (karen@karen.karen), October 21, 1999.

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