We have about 3 million of those investors, about 10 percent.

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You do a lot of work by phone on the commute? I do. Still, the picture may get worse before it gets better. We weren't getting the traction that we all wanted.

They're very small, but they do advertise their prices a lot. The great low prices apply if you do 15 trades a quarter or 60 a year.

If you put Ameritrade in there, it's about 6 percent or 7 percent. After hundreds of trades and countless clicks, we've run 21 brokers through their paces and ranked them on everything from stock picking to trading tools. Um, Earth to Karl, that is precisely the proposal at hand.