With software like Quest Trade, its very possible to make money in the stock market for the small guy. With TD Waterhouse I had the high fees and no trading software and it was no fun.
Here's a screen shot, (last day bought BMY after some rumors), and today it went up.
Just holding that over night.
And a couple days before that.

Made about $73 on Amazon
Currently only have one account I'm trading with, still waiting for my other portion to be transferred. Note I'm using only about $2000 at the moment but once my other account is transferred I'll be back up to all that's left of the $10,000 I had to start with ;-)
Tomorrow lots of earnings are coming out, going to pick a stock I'll have faith in and let it run!
I'm interested again so I'll be revamping this site, putting it to a relevant domain, and more.