Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch have been buying stakes in, and forming partnerships with, several e-stockbrokers, e-investment banks and electronic share-trading systems.
Trinh, 26, and others opened accounts last year with Ameritrade, E-Trade and Trading Direct.
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E-Trade and Trading Direct say they don't keep records on their account holders' nationalities.
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Melanie Sloan, the group's director, says the e-mails show him trading legislation for campaign contributions.
Reliability is everything when it comes from e-commerce and online trading.
While its true that the over caffeinated junky trading E-mini future contracts more than likely subscribes to some sort of TA, it can also be used as a longer term view on bigger trends.
These electronic platforms aggregate the offerings of several brokers so clients can get an online overview, but none had the liquidity and real-time trading capabilities that Paulson says e-markets ultimately will need.
As investors fled e-brokerages amid the tech bust, trading volumes evaporated, along with 87% of Ameritrade's market value.
Or consider a broker who e-mails someone a question about the trading volume at which a certain stock would be likely to rise (or fall).
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The 89-year-old firm was convicted in June 2002 by a Houston jury of obstructing justice by shredding tons of documents and destroying e-mails related to its client, Enron, just before the energy-trading giant abruptly went bankrupt the previous autumn when questions were raised about its financial statements.
The weekly chart shows a more than four-month trading range (lines e and f).
Wendy Trevisani, associate portfolio manager with Thornburg Investment Management, says E-Trade will succeed with its diversification from pure trading into banking and lending products.
The agreement, unveiled earlier this month, means Merc won't have to build its own energy trading operations, as it had planned to do this summer, after dabbling with trading some of Nymex's smaller e-miNY contracts for the last few years.
But all along, Cotsakos says, he knew that E-Trade would have to move past its mainstay of online trading.
The shares are trading at 3 cents, and the spam e-mail says it expects them to go to over 20 cents based on some vague and confusing "information" included in the e-mail.
They tapped their trading desks for people to focus full time on e-commerce.
It seemed that E-Trade, the online broker that celebrated greed and popularized day trading, might become another high-profile casualty of the Internet froth and fizzle.
E-cigarettes are currently classed as a general consumer product and regulated by trading standards.
And LaBranche, a marketmaker on the New York Stock Exchange, is withholding some 8, 000 e-mails from the exchange in a row over how an investigation into trading practices is being conducted.
This Federal Express disciple, who became chief executive of E-Trade in March 1996 (just as it was launching its online trading portal), insists the firm has moved beyond the online brokerage business to a new battlefront: unified online finance.
This year, E-Trade has underperformed its peers, with both Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade trading above it.
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The final frontier is rapidly approaching: direct trading of overseas-listed stocks through discount brokers such as E-Trade and Schwab.
Chinese police last month detained four people suspected of trying to obtain consumer data from e-commerce site 360buy.com, which is operated by Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co.
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On July 11, 2003, the firm's chief financial officer sent an e-mail to all employees, including Hertz, saying there should be no trading in Track Data shares until earnings were announced on Aug. 12.
The e-mails also suggest close commercial links between the two firms and at least one trading outfit that was a target of regulatory probes into shorting violations, SBA Trading.
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"It will be important for HMRC to explain to e-traders the borderline between an individual selling one's own surplus belongings and moving into trading, " he added.
E-mails revealed as part of the rate fixing investigation showed traders were seeking beneficial rates for their trading positions.
Unlike its rival E-Trade, it sidestepped the housing crisis by avoiding risky mortgages and sticking with stock-and-bond trading.
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