Alan Newcomb News Today

Our QDR Hometown Hero of the Week is Alan Newcomb, Volunteer Firefighter for the Rosewood Volunteer Fire Department.   Alan was nominated by his wife Ashley who says, "Alan is an amazing father and husband! He has a heart of gold, loves his community, and would give anyone the shirt off his back

Born legally blind, he co-founded the company that revolutionized stock trading – “a broker in a box,” as one newspaper put it.

He wrote a program that allowed people to buy and sell stocks on their home computers and co-founded a company that reaped its benefits.

The legally blind son of a janitor, he wrote a program that allowed people to buy and sell stocks on their home computers and co-founded the company that became E*Trade.

Newcomb developed a system that revolutionized stock trading, enabling individual investors to buy and sell shares on their personal computers.