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Investors Cope With Stock Trading Woes, ETF Glitches

Back to normal? Last week’s wild stock market trading provoked stock brokerage site outages while computer glitches in systems tied to the market compounded the financial world’s woes. Getting the technical matters resolved is continuing into this week, and sorting out the ramifications to investors could take even longer. Reports circulated of customer difficulties with aspects of using the TD Ameritrade (AMTD), Charles Schwab (SCHW), Vanguard,

Is Your Online Stock Account Safe From Cyberthieves?

Chief Technology Officer Lou Steinberg is devoted to ensuring that TD Ameritrade, one of the top five online stockbrokers in IBD’s third annual survey, doesn’t become easy prey. His cybersecurity team constantly examines ways to make it too hard and costly to penetrate the online brokerage’s defenses. But, he admits, even if TD Ameritrade (AMTD) maintains a 99.9% success rate, cybercriminals will exploit the tiniest weakness. “There’s a bit of