All things STOCKS

I showered early this morning because I knew I was going to be glued to my PC all day with this going on.

I just showered again because I was in a cold sweat for 5 hours straight.
Yup...my ticker is too old for that stuff anymore.

But I could tell a couple of war stories from 25 years ago.
 
Beginning of E-trade and AmeriTrade and Datek/Deltek/something...I think?

Paying $19.95 per trade

It is a new day.

Datek. Before Schwab ended up owning most of the “deep discount” brokers. Ameritrade (and the Think or Swim platform). Waterhouse. TD Waterhouse. Scottrade. Datek. They’re all Schwab now.

Touch tone trading was $29.99/trade. It was a big deal when they had to compete and got the price down to $9.99/trade. Brown and Company was another deep discount brokerage.

Then if you were really on the cutting edge you’d get a pocket quote machine. Live stock quotes over an FM frequency. Quotrek. Pocket Monitor.
 
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