[nabentre] Accessible Trading, was, "stock trading"

[Sunish Gupta]

I have used TD AMERITRADE.com and find that  their mobile trading platform 
is accessible.
I use their website designed for mobile interfaces on my PC .
Thanks
S



-----Original Message----- 
From: Everett Gavel
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 4:16 PM
To: nabentre at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nabentre] Accessible Trading, was, "stock trading"

Hi Peter, and all,

Very happy to hear you're trading, Peter. I recently
opened a ThinkOrSwim account through TD Ameritrade, and
am currently evaluating that trading platform. However,
it's not looking too hopeful at the moment. It's just
about the most graphical interface I've found yet. I
will say, however, that the phone support is
wonderfully willing to help however they can, so far.

Peter, I'm sorry I can't help you at the moment more
directly, but I'm very interested in getting with you
to discuss the pros and cons further about your
experience with E*Trade & any other accounts &
platforms you may have used.

I've mentioned what I'm about to say in the past
months, but have since found that some respondents
messages got through to me, while some apparently
haven't. So if anyone responded to me previously on
this topic and didn't hear back, please forgive me --
and try again. But Peter, some of us, blind traders and
investors I mean, are putting together a group of
interested participants, working ultimately towards its
own Nonprofit organization, dedicated to making the
world of investing & trading on the Internet, more
fully accessible.

So that those who are blind or have low-vision may
trade as readily as the sighted investors and traders
who do so every day if they wish. For many, Day & Swing
trading, and short-term investing, is a means of income
to survive and thrive on -- not just an investment to
retire on years into the future. Blind individuals
should have the ability to do so just as the sighted
do. It is a viable means of earning a regular,
self-supporting income if one learns how. But to
millions of people around the globe, it is not
accessible or usable on some very important levels of
access to independence.

I've used some online paper-trading games to learn how
to trade and invest over the years. Investopedia,
Stockpickr, etc. Even those are inaccessible to screen
readers with some of their more important and necessary
features. Our goal is to change this. To allow the
blind to have access, to have opportunity, to learn and
earn if they so wish, just like the sighted can.

We want to make the training materials and the trading
platforms, as well as stock tickers and charts, fully
accessible. We're looking for interested traders and
investors who are blind, as well as those who'd like to
learn how to trade. We're also looking for coders and
programmers who would be willing to work towards making
these platforms, programs, and training materials more
fully accessible.

Peter, and anyone else interested, please contact me if
you would like to be part of this initiative to make
the world of investing and trading more accessible.
Also, please feel free to share this message with
anyone you think might also be interested. Thanks.


Strive On!
Everett

Everett Gavel
Successful Adaptations, llc
everettg at successfuladaptations.com


-----original message----- 
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:10:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Peter Mikochik <mikochik at panix.com>
To: NFBnet NAB Entrepreneurs Mailing List
<nabentre at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [nabentre] stock trading

hi list

i have been day trading with an etrade account.
the web site is very difficult to use and sometimes i
cannot complete a
transaction.
the iphone app is better but many times  i cannot get
back to a previous
screen and it is not as full featured as the web site.
it is very frustrating and i cannot even complain cause
the contact form
is inaccessible.
they do have a phone based trading system, but it is a
bit basic.
i have to use a combination of all 3 modes to execute
trades.
i am a very skilled computer user, so if i can't use
the site it is not
for lack of trying.
does anyone here use any of the other brokerage houses?
peter




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