The Sun’s Financial Diary

Update: This promotion has expired.
Just a quick reminder. There are a few more days left to take advantage of this $50+$20 bonus offer.
Tonight, I was about to send out the first batch of bonuses I received from TradeKing to those who used my referrals to get a TradeKing account, then I realized that the promotion [...]

I haven’t used my Firstrade account for a while. Actually, the account is largely abandoned since I moved all my investments at Firstrade to TradeKing last December.
Tonight, when I didn’t log into my account to send a referral to a reader, I noticed that Firstrade is now also offering a $50 cash bonus in their [...]

TradeKing, a online discount broker, is running a Refer a Friend on National Friendship Day promotion which will give you $50 for a new account. I will make the promotion even sweeter.
Are you using TradeKing? If not, are you considering getting an account?
if so, then here’s your chance to profit from it, getting up to [...]

Early last month, I ran a poll here at this blog asking readers to name their favorite brokers. The purpose of that poll is to see what we ordinary investors are using when it comes to buy and sell stocks/ETFs and whether our choice coincide with experts’ opinion.
When I search for a broker, my first [...]

Looking for a cheap broker with excellent service? Check out TradeKing. It is an online discount broker which charges a flat $4.95 commission for every stock trade. Also, TradeKing has been ranked No. 1 Online Discount Broker by SmartMoney Magazine for two consecutive years in 2006 to 2007.
I have wanted to write a review of [...]

I started my own Zecco referral bonus sharing program back in December 2007 when Zecco relaunched its Zecco Friend program. At the beginning, it was actually pretty good. I sent new customers to Zecco and got a $50 bonus for each new customer shortly after they opened and funded a new account. I then shared [...]

Since I began to actively use my Zecco account to trade stocks in March, I got myself a task that I don’t want: find a place to store the mail Zecco sent me every time I made a trade. It’s not really a piece of junk mail that I can just throw away, but close [...]

Last week, I wrote about my experience with Scottrade when I was trying to place an order of Visa (V)
when the markets opened. The day after that post was published, I got an email from Chris, Chief Marketing Officer of Scottrade, who expressed concern why I had to wait so long before being connected to [...]

I knew Zecco offers free dividend reinvestment, the only problem is I don’t know how to set it up.
When I logged into my account yesterday, I noticed that there’s a $20 dividend from my investment in Blackstone Group (BX) (not that I appreciate the money given how much the stock has dropped since it’s IPO). [...]

After learning that Zecco relaunched its referral program last December, I set up a referral program of my own shortly after. With my program, I promised to share $20 of the $50 bonus Zecco rewards me for each new account I refer to them. In the first 2 weeks after I put up my program, [...]