9 ordspråk av Blake Darcy
Blake Darcy
A typical broker has 200 to 400 relationships. They can only talk to one person at a time. The biggest customers will be answered first and the everybody else gets in line.
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From a branding perspective, the Super Bowl is a terrific, but very fleeting, opportunity to build consumer awareness in millions of households through a single broadcast.
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If you do that, you're dead. You're giving very sensitive financial information to an institution for a reason and it's not so they can take that information and profit from selling it to someone else. It's a clear misuse.
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It's a year 2000 event. This year it's wireless trading and after-hours trading. Next year it'll be the computerized advice, customized service.
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It's been a very active market. The biggest trading gains you see are of firms that cater to day traders, although we (also) have seen a big percentage increase quarter over quarter.
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The market research available today shows that people are more loyal to their bank than to their brokerage.
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This is the fourth year we've seen a downturn in customer activity at one point in the year and usually it's lasting two to four months, and we're not overly concerned about that. But clearly, it's a competitive marketplace.
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We had a record number of margin calls over the weekend.
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We're going through a transition. There's very little you can't do online. You have the high-quality research, the screening tools, the quotes and the charts.
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