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The history of the development of Internet trading

Internet trading today is familiar to almost everyone. For many traders - it is the only possible way of making deals. But even 10-15 years ago, the majority of traders to work with a simple landline phone.

Today the internet trading as individuals and large companies. More than 80% of global trade in shares, and even more foreign exchange operations conducted by this technology. High demand for speculative trading in real-time resulted in many brokers and dealing centers, which popularized this type of income.

Internet trading in emerged in the 90s of the last century, but the history of trading dates back even earlier. By the mid-20th century trader profession it was not a novelty. Wrote books and worked out technical and fundamental analysis tools. But the very existence of trade exchanges and all dates back several centuries.

But only with the 70-ies in connection with the introduction of floating exchange rate arose the concept of Forex (foreign exchange market), but in the mid-nineties, when the global web enveloped the whole world, Internet trading has declared itself publicly. New technologies have simplified ways of receiving and executing orders from individuals. Online currency trading and securities became a promising type of business and rushed to investment flows. There was a competition that more strongly accelerated the process of technology development - the faster, easier and more reliable tool, the more it can attract investment.

There is an individual approach, reduced the size of the brokerage commissions. On the other hand there are special information web portals, news, blogs successful traders, the program of fundamental and technical market analysis. Exchanges themselves have become more sensitive to news, quickened pulse of the market. Thus, Internet trading has changed and added to the internal structure of the global financial markets by making them more open and accessible to ordinary people.

There was a chain reaction - the financial markets collapsed wave of new investors and related institutions. Internet trading has become a good assistant for traders and drive financial markets.