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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Hello,<br>
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<font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>We're interested in
hearing from blind and low-vision traders and investors who have used E*Trade,
TD Ameritrade, Scottrade, ThinkOrSwim -- or any other online trading platform
-- to discuss your opinions and experiences as to the pros and cons with any of
the accounts and platforms you may have used. <br>
</span></font><br>
<font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>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 hadn't. So if anyone
responded previously on this topic and didn't hear back, please forgive me --
and try again. <br>
</span></font><br>
<font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>A handful of blind traders
and investors are putting together a group of interested participants for an
initiative, working ultimately towards its own Nonprofit organization,
dedicated to making the world of investing and 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 can do so any time they wish. <br>
</span></font><br>
<font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>For many people, Day and
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, these tools, materials, and
opportunities are not accessible or usable on some very important levels of access
to independence. <br>
</span></font><br>
<font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>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 those who are fully sighted can. <br>
</span></font><br>
<font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>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. <br>
</span></font><br>
<font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>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 share this message with anyone you think
might be interested. Thank you.<br>
</span></font><br>
<font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>Strive On!<br>
</span></font><br>
<font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>Everett<br>
</span></font><br>
<font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>Everett Gavel<br>
</span></font><br>
<font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>Successful Adaptations,
llc<br>
</span></font><br>
<font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'>everettg@successfuladaptations.com</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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