Growth of Mobile Trading

Growth or Mobile in ONLINE TRADING The SEND TRADE SECURITIES TRADING has been a STAPLE IN AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MORE THAN 200 YEARS. THE ERA THAT BEGAN IN THE EARLY 1990S ushered in a bull market not seen before in the American financial markets, and EVENTUALLY BROUGHT ABOUT THE ONLINE TRADING REVOLUTION. The Early Years Investors called from a REGULAR LAND LINE to O In order TO "PITCH" the research of their firms and speak TO A LIVE BROKER to place a TRADE. SOLICIT A TRADE, brokers also USED A LANDLINE. 1970 During the 1970s and '80s, ECNS (ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS) This were used by financial popularity of the TECHNOLOGY coupled with the + PERSONAL increasing firms to DISPLAY BIDS AND ASK PRICES FOR STOCKS. COMPUTER. OPENED THE MINDS OF BROKERAGE BIDS LEADERS TO NEW IDEAS. 2$ Many brokerages either DEVELOPED SOFTWARE or bought companies that had STOCK CURRENT developed software to LINK TRADERS with STOCK PRICE INFORMATION. This MATCHED UP BUYERS with sellers EASILY, EFFICIENTLY, AND WITH SIGNIFICANT COST SAVINGS. The 1990s into the 21st Century The popularity of ONLINE STOCK TRADING started to CATCH ON. The average retail investor GAINED 7 ACCESS TO INFORMATION ALONG WITH DECREASED TRADE COST. ONLINE STOCK TRADING 1990 BY THE MID-1990S, of the NATION'S POPULATION was 20% INVESTING IN STOCKS THANKS TO ONLINE TRADING. This NUMBER WAS UP FROM 5% just a decade earlier. 1991 E-TRADE was created in 1991. As online trading grew in popularity, E-TRADE WATCHED ITS REVENUES GROW FROM $850,000 $11 MILLION TO in 1992 in 1994. It was named the FASTEST GROWING COMPANY in America in 1994. [1] 1995 CHARLES SCHWAB entered the scene in 1995 with $181./ BILLION in total CLIENT ASSETS. 1996 In 1996, they went live with their ONLINE TRADING PLATFORM. By the end of that year, they had S253 BILLION in assets. 1997 In 1997, the company reported 1 MILLION ONLINE ACCOUNTS. Schwab set a NEW ONLINE BAR of S43/ BILLION in total assets and was ranked THE TOP ONLINE BROKER in the U.S. [2] 2000 An advisory group reported that the NUMBER OF ONLINE BROKERAGES jumped from PARAA 12 140 TO MORE THAN IN 1994 BY THE END OF 2000, Over history, STOCK TRADING HAS EVOLVED from PROPRIETARY, BROKER-DRIVEN TRADING OPEN-ACCESS, CONSUMER-DRIVEN TRADING. Present Day Today we see DEVELOPMENT Of more STREAMLINED SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS and ADDITIONAL OPTIONS FOR TRADING. OPEN TRADE MOBILE TRADING has arrived on the scene, offering the SAME SERVICES PERSONAL that investors access using their COMPUTERS. There are MULTIPLE PLAYERS in the "Trading App" industry, including APPLE ® ( iPhone®, iPad®) GOOGLE (Android TM ). AND Almost every brokerage firm that offers ONLINE TRADING now offers MOBILE ACCESS. [31 The ability to MAKE A TRADE FROM ANYWHERE wasn't even imagined in the early 2000Os. While online and mobile stock trading was all the rage initially, THE MOBILE REVOLUTION HAS MOVED ON TO DIFFERENT FINANCIAL MARKETS, including THE FOREX MARKET, one that has captured and also known as embraced this new technology: CURRENCY TRADING. FOREX is the LARGEST TRADING ASSET CLASS in the world The average DAILY TURNOVER surpasses $4 TRILLION. Forex represents a HIGH DEGREE OF LIQUIDITY that the STOCK MARKET DOES NOT COME CLOSE to equaling. 20% Forex trading has INCREASED 20 PERCENT during the period between 2007 AND 2010 2010 2007 and has more than DOUBLED SINCE 2004, EMERGED THE INDIVIDUAL RETAIL INVESTOR HAS as A MAJOR PART OF FOREX GROWTH due to a number of factors: While MOST STOCK BROKERAGE TRADING ACCOUNTS will give you perhaps Forex represents a HIGHER DEGREE OF RISK but gives investors the ABILITY TO TRADE 4:1 $10 PER POSITION FOR EVERY $1 dealers in the Forex market offer DAY TRADING LEVERAGE, 10:1 IN MOST CASES. in their account, Forex trading can be done through a PC OR LAPTOP, TABLET OR PHONE giving investors the ability to trade JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE, FOREX BROKERAGE FIRMS OFFER EDUCATION to investors and greater opportunities to develop This has also their own investment strategy with GAINED TRACTION ON It's NOT just THE FREE ONLINE STOCK TRADING TRADING ASPECT. MOBILE PLATFORMS. SIMULATORS AND INVESTMENT PRACTICE. Disclaimer Tracing foreign exchange on margin carries a high level of risk, and may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage is a double-edged sword, and can dramatically amplify your profits. It can also just as dramatically amplify your losses. The possibility exists that you coud sustain a loss of some or al of your deposited funds and therefore, you should not speculate with capital that you cannot afford to lose. The high dogree leverage can work against you as well as for you. Hypothetical performance results have marny inherent limitations and there are frequently sharp differences between hypothetical performance resuits and the actual results. Please consult with your advisor before making any financial decision. INFOGRAPHIC BROUGHT TO YOU BY FXCM SOURCES 1 : HTTP://WWW.FUNDINGUNIVERSE.COM/COMPANY-HISTORIES/E-TRADE-FINANCIAL-CORPORATION-HISTORY/ 2 HTTP://CHARLESSCHWABFOUNDATION.COM/ABOUT/OVERVIEW/HISTORY.HTML 3 : HTTP://WWW.FOOL.COM/HOW-TO-INVEST/BROKER/INDEX.ASPX