His company now pitches its online trading customers on money-market accounts, mortgages, asset management and loans.
With the ease of online trading, retail investors had an insatiable appetite for dot-coms.
It offers financial-planning tools and low-cost online trading, as well as some advice services.
His firm now pitches its online trading customers on money market accounts, mortgages, asset management and loans.
The explosion of online trading so far has done little to keep Merrill's bosses awake at night.
Already more than 30 discount brokers are offering online trading accounts at rates that match or undercut e.
But all along, Cotsakos says, he knew that E-Trade would have to move past its mainstay of online trading.
Individual investors, hooked on the thrill of online trading, have led the charge into technology shares in most countries.
Online trading platform Intrade has ceased all trading activity pending an investigation.
The implications of this regulation for business-to-consumer online trading are enormous, said Mike Pullen, a Brussels-based lawyer with U.K. law firm Dibb Lupton Alsop.
Reliability is everything when it comes from e-commerce and online trading.
Early adopters of e-scheduling capabilities will gain a real competitive edge -- remember how the most active stock traders gravitated toward brokerages that offered online trading first?
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It cut commissions in the 1970s when others were raising them, offered one of the first mutual fund supermarkets in the 1980s and discount online trading a decade later.
When the antiestablishment broker started pitching in 1996, it used the tagline "Someday we'll all invest this way" to introduce investors to online trading, a newfangled notion at the time.
As one of the a most recognized online trading companies struggles a rival may be stepping in to save the day and up its market share at the same time.
The stock market was going gangbusters, everyone except me seemed to be making money hand over fist, and with the help of the internet and online trading, anyone could get in on the action.
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By the end of the year, two other local brokers were offering online trading, and the giant of the business, Charles Schwab, had launched its own e-trading in Hong Kong (only in American securities so far).
Moreover, much of the growth in online trading seems to result from investors doing more trades and keeping less of their money in the bank, rather than from e-brokers gaining clients at the expense of full-service firms.
This would allow even the tiniest Hong Kong broker to offer its clients online trading on the Exchange's site, which will simply check with the brokers to confirm the client's account balance and credit-standing before executing the order.
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.
Just three years ago, most Chinese startups were unheard of in the West, aside from search engine Baidu and online trading marketplace Alibaba, which were among the earlier wave of Internet startups to make a splash with successful public trading debuts.
He launched online trading two decades later, took his firm public in 1997 and built a national name during the dot-com boom by offering cut rates, bare-bones service and Stuart, a ponytailed spokesman who taught his boss how cool it was to trade online.
Other Windy City players that have made headlines in recent months include (though not in as infamous a fashion as Groupon) mobile marketing firm Vibe Media, food delivery and restaurant finder company GrubHub, online trading platform optionMONSTER (home of tradeMONSTER) and personnel management software company SilkRoad.
At the same time, it promised to keep the pits open until trading volume became insignificant, spruced up its electronic trading software, passed out 250 handhelds to traders, opened a computer room so that floor brokers and traders can practice online trading and courted electronic trading groups popping up worldwide.
Another boost for Kosdaq: South Korea has one of the highest levels of online stock trading in the world.
Sony recently established an online stock trading company and also owns Sony Financial International which issues credit cards and insurance.
But Singapore brokerages are reeling not just from the arrival of the big global guys, but also from online securities trading and falling local fees.
Then, I went on to place in the top 10 (after 5 years) out of about 70, 000 participants in the online stock trading competition known as Marketocracy.
The web page of the Financial Services Commission, the country's financial regulator, was overloaded and an online stock trading system was shut down for a few minutes but both soon recovered, according to government sources.
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