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by daniserra 5453 days ago
I don't think brokerage sites are not accessible, let me disagree on that one. Players like Charles Schwab, Ameritrade and eTrade made it very simple for common people to trade online, and there are millons of individual small traders already. Also, old boards like Motley Fool helped a lot of people understand how the sistem works and encourage them to take control of their investments. Financial products like ETFs and interfaces like Yahoo finance and Google finance are visited by millions every month. What is a REAL NIGHTMARE (at least for me, a foreigner) is the paperwork related to opening an account (banking or brokerage, the same). If you can think of a way (or service) to simplify that process, you would be improving people's life.