As investors gain confidence, business will have the capital to expand and put more people to work.
The professional investor can gain $.10 or more per share with very little risk.
For varying fees, investors can gain access to more detailed screens and data.
Over the last three sessions investors have gained about $21.88 for each $1,000 they have invested.
His hope is that investors can gain as the market becomes surprised by levels of holiday spending.
BUT defenders say the studies do not support the view that investors would gain.
When that gain is converted into dollars, investors have gained more than 30 percent this year.
By contrast, a buy-and-hold investor would have gained 313 percent.
Stocks may bounce back during the summer, of course, as investors gain their footing in unstable times.
But investors should gain from the dispute, if only the insight into how brokers make money off their trades.