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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.