Growing fad of online stock trading in Europe

Online stock trading has now been in crazy stage now in Europe. After the worst carnage of dotcom bubble in 2001, many European individual stock investor’s money were completely washed out, while many of the brokerages lost out their multimillion dollar gamble that Europeans would embrace online trading, but recent survey done by to market researcher IDC (Internal Data Corporation) only about 14% of the 318 million people in Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Spain, and Sweden owing stock/share. In the U.S., by comparison, nearly 55% of the population of 300 million owns stock, but this trend is changing now. Europe's online brokerage sector, which is now adding customer accounts at a 7% annual growth rate vs. 4% in the U.S.

With the recent development of increase in number of personal computer use along with internet and use of employee-directed pension plans and a shift in responsibility for retirement from governments to individuals, Europeans are paying more attention to stock investing and to online stock trading. It clearly seems like European are gradually becoming aware of the benefits of electronic trading and changing their attitude toward their financial responsibilities.

According to the survey made by IDC there were about 17.5 million online stock trading accounts in Western Europe as of the end of last year and that could jump to 23.5 million accounts, and online trading will represent nearly a quarter of all retail transactions.

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