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                                                    Registration Nos. 333-66807
                                                                      811-09093

   AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON OCTOBER 7, 1999

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM N-1A

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933                                                /X/
Pre-Effective Amendment No.                                           / /
Post-Effective Amendment No. 6                                        /X/
and/or
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE
INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940                                        /X/
Amendment No. 9                                                       /X/
(Check appropriate box or boxes)

                                  E*TRADE FUNDS

              (Exact name of Registrant as specified in charter)

                               4500 Bohannon Drive
                              Menlo Park, CA 94025
                   (Address of Principal Executive Offices)

Registrant's Telephone Number, including Area Code:  (650) 331-5000

                                 Kathy Levinson
                            E*TRADE Securities, Inc.
                               4500 Bohannon Drive
                              Menlo Park, CA 94025
                     (Name and address of agent for service)

                 Please send copies of all communications to:

David A. Vaughan, Esq.                  Kathy Levinson
Dechert Price & Rhoads                  E*TRADE Securities, Inc.
1775 Eye Street, NW                     4500 Bohannon Drive
Washington, DC  20006                   Menlo Park, CA 94025

Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering:  As soon as practicable  after the
effective date of this Registration Statement.

The Registrant hereby amends this  Registration  Statement on such date or dates
as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant  shall file
a further amendment which specifically  states that this Registration  Statement
shall  thereafter  become  effective  in  accordance  with  Section  8(a) of the
Securities  Act of  1933 or  until  this  Registration  Statement  shall  become
effective on such date as the  Commission,  acting pursuant to Section 8(a), may
determine.  It is  proposed  that  this  filing  will  become  effective  (check
appropriate box):

       Immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
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X      on October 19, 1999 pursuant to paragraph (b)
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       60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
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       75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485
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If appropriate, check the following box:

        This  post-effective  amendment  designates a new effective date for a
X       previously filed post-effective amendment.
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This Post-Effective  Amendment No. 6 to the Registration  Statement on Form N-1A
for E*TRADE  Funds (the  "Fund")  incorporates  by reference  the  Prospectuses,
Statements of  Additional  Information  and Parts C contained in  Post-Effective
Amendment No. 3, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange  Commission on
July 26,  1999,  and seeks to extend  the  effective  date of this  Registration
Statement to October 19, 1999.


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                                   SIGNATURES

      Pursuant to the  requirements  of the  Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
the  Registrant  has duly  caused  this  Post-Effective  Amendment  No. 6 to the
Registration  Statement  to be signed on its  behalf  by the  undersigned,  duly
authorized,  in the City of Menlo Park in the State of California on the 6th day
of October, 1999.

                                          E*TRADE FUNDS
                                          (Registrant)
                                          By:   /s/
                                              ---------------------------------
                                                Name: Brian C. Murray
                                                Title:      President

      Pursuant to the  requirements  of the  Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
this  Post-Effective  Amendment  No. 6 to the  Registration  Statement  has been
signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

Signature                       Title                       Date

*
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Kathy Levinson                  Trustee                     October 6, 1999


*
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Leonard C. Purkis               Trustee and Treasurer       October 6, 1999
                                (Principal Financial and
                                 Accounting Officer)

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Brian C. Murray                 President (Principal        October 6, 1999
                                 Executive Officer)


*
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Shelly J. Meyers                Trustee                     October 6, 1999


*
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Ashley T. Rabun                 Trustee                     October 6, 1999


*
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Steven Grenadier                Trustee                     October 6, 1999


* By /s/
     -------------------------                              October 6, 1999
     David A. Vaughan
     Attorney-In-Fact



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