| Nobody makes a financial investment with the goal of | | | | makes it very difficult to take small gains from an |
| losing money. Making financial gains is everyone's | | | | investment and get out of it. Your entire investment |
| objective and the internet has now made that goal | | | | strategy has to be altered to more of a long term |
| possible for many investors who were previously at | | | | one. You eliminate a particular strategy that many |
| a major disadvantage. Shortly after the internet was | | | | investors make a lot of money with. |
| invented and made available to the public, cheap | | | | Secondly, when you trade through a website, you |
| online stock investing websites began. Today, they | | | | have the option of buying and selling shares of stock, |
| have come so far, they are like an internet stock | | | | mutual funds, or whatever it is you choose to invest |
| broker for beginning to novice investors. There are | | | | in, at any time of day or night, seven days a week. |
| three major advantages to using an "internet stock | | | | You don't have this freedom with a traditional broker. |
| broker" instead of a traditional stock broker. | | | | Last, you have the ability to educate yourself on |
| First, when you invest in a stock through an online | | | | every aspect of investing in the stock market. Most |
| stock broker, you save a lot of money. The amount | | | | of these websites offer tools and educational |
| of money that investors are charged by brokers is | | | | courses for their members to use for free. You will |
| very high and unnecessarily inflated. Depending on the | | | | no longer be tied down to only the investments your |
| firm the broker is with, you could pay between $40 | | | | broker makes. (Often, these suggestions are the |
| and $70 per trade. This ridiculous amount of money | | | | ones that will pay him or her the biggest commission. |