1.   But in many ways, the battle over whether to extend trading hours lines up the traditional Wall Street firms against the electronic brokers.

2.   Competition from electronic brokers.

3.   Electronic brokers merely search for the best current price.

4.   Electronic brokers can match buyers and sellers perfectly well when there are lots of buyers and sellers hovering around.

5.   It is an electronic broker that is owned by the major primary dealers.

6.   No other electronic broker comes close.

7.   Once high fliers, the stocks of electronic brokers have crashed along with the Nasdaq.

8.   People were worried that the electronic brokers were going to clobber them.

9.   Paperless stock certificates, electronic brokers and instant access to news and historical data on virtually every publicly traded company in the world await the investor in cyberspace.

10.   Some investors, their confidence shaken, have even filed lawsuits against electronic brokers.