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I am a student at Brooklyn College working on a senior thesis about investing on the 
Net. The focus of my research will be to analyze how internet trading is affecting the 
individual investor. Some of the issues I plan to tackle include:

- How are on-line trades executed?
- Why is the Net a threat to the status quo of the brokerage industry?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the Net instead of calling a
  broker?
- Which internet trading service is the best,cheapest and easiest to use?
- How are investors protected from fraudulent investment schemes? (Pyramids, etc.)
- What type of investors use the Net?

This last question is the most important.  I need to know the demographic groups that
are trading on-line. While I have found a good deal of information in publications like
Business Week and The Wall Street Journal, I'm required to supply primary sources.  I
need to get in touch with investors who are actually trading on-line and get their
opinions on the subject.  Please provide me with possible sources of information or
ideas on any of the above issues.  Any ideas would be helpful, I'm pretty desperate at
this point.  Thanks.