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A Brief History of Online Trading

Although most people imagine stock trading floors as a mass free-for-all with suited types screaming and making frantic hand gestures as they buy and sell their stocks, this scene is actually a relic from a bygone era. It's still a free-for-all of course, but today's market traders are an entirely different bunch, for the most part staring at computer screens and making virtually all of their trades at the push of a button. Although online trading seems like a recent innovation, but traders