Its been decades, personal investors placed orders to buy and sell stock through personal brokers. At many brokerages, the size of a customer’s account often determined the level of personal service. If we peep in the past, you will find that in the late 1980s, a handful of innovative brokerages allowed their clients to trade stocks using dial-up services, such as Prodigy. Further, as the Internet blossomed in the 1990s, online trading services realized that they could eliminate the overhead of branch offices by expanding offerings direct to consumers.
Nowadays, unlimited number of household uses online trading accounts to conveniently … Read the rest