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Account Transfer from ShareBuilder to Zecco: The Information You Need

Posted by Sun on June 28, 2007 (12) Comment

Last week I posted an entry on transferring my account at ShareBuilder to Zecco. After the post was published, I got an email from Drew who is interested in some more information about the transfer:
I enjoyed your current posts on Zecco and moving from ShareBuilder to Zecco. I currently have a portfolio with ShareBuilder but [...]

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Zecco Removes Account Minimum to Lure More Investors

Posted by Sun on June 5, 2007 (9) Comment

Now it seems that everything is free at Zecco (except option trading).
I was tipped off by Joe yesterday about the change and just got an email from Zecco this morning that now you can open a Zecco trading account with no account minimum.
You asked, we listened. In response to popular demand, we’ve lowered the [...]

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Zecco IS Cheap

Posted by Sun on May 30, 2007 (13) Comment

No, I am not talking about their commission free trading.
It’s now a quite common practice for financial institutions to use small amount of trial deposits to verify the ownership of bank accounts, if they can’t, or don’t, verify it in real time online. For example, when I opened my last two savings accounts at IGoBanking [...]

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Zecco Review, Promotion Codes Plus Free Trading Account Opening Process

Posted by Sun on May 28, 2007 (24) Comment

Well, I eventually opened a Zecco account after mulling the idea of getting commission free trading for a long time. The main attraction is, of course, zero commission trading. Currently, I am paying anywhere from $4 to $7 commission on stock trading. It would be nice to eliminate the trading cost. However, my concern [...]

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Zecco Eliminates Paperwork in Account Application

Posted by Sun on May 16, 2007 (0) Comment

I got an email a couple of days ago from Zecco [Affiliate link] about their new online account application process which eliminates all the paperwork for accounts opened after May 10, 2007. Here’s the section from their FAQs page regarding the e-signature account application:
I signed the online application form electronically. Do I need to mail [...]

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