Subject: Rule changes

Date:    02/25/2000 6:06 PM
     
     
I am a small investor in stock and options currently considering opening an 
account with Interactive Brokers.
     
Please take all of the well considered regulatory comments made by Timber Hill /
Interactive Brokers posted at http://www.interactivebrokers.com/ seriously.
     
I believe that their preference for fairness, equality and efficiency is in the 
interest of all market participants.  
     
     
      Links to some of their comments are shown below.
     
     
     
      Our Comment Letters to the Regulators 
     
     
     
      Interactive Brokers' Comments on Amendment of NYSE Rule 431 (Margin
Requirements for Day Traders) (February 15, 2000).
     
      Interactive Brokers' Comment Letter in Recommendation of the Repeal of the
Short Sale Rule (December 29, 1999).
     
      *Proposed Rule Change and Amendment No. 1 by the Chicago Board Options
Exchange, Inc. Governing the Operation of Its Retail Automatic Execution System 
(December 21, 1999).*
      Click here to view a plain text file of the above file. 
      Respond to this Comment Letter by clicking here to send an e-mail to the
SEC. 
     
     
     
     
     
Please follow their advice.
     
Sincerely, 
     
Paul Cymbala