The Sun's Financial Diary

You should put this on your Black Friday shopping list if a low-cost brokerage account is also what you have on your mind. Firstrade (my Firstrade review), an online discount broker that I talked quite a lot on this blog, is going to have a Black Friday Early Bird Promotion from November 28th 7:00 AM [...]

Just a quick note. If you want to use ShareBuilder (my ShareBuilder review) to open a custodial or educational savings account, you can get 3 free real time trades when using promotion code 3FREETRADES. This offer is only good for educational savings account and can’t be used in regular brokerage account as well. Currently, ShareBuilder [...]

When TradeKing announced its special $50 new account bouns promotion early this month, the offer was set to expire tomorrow. Now, it looks like the discount broker has decided to extend the promotion one more month into November, a sign I see that the promotion is going pretty well. Actually, this is one of the [...]

Looking for basic knowledge on investing and trading? Online discount broker TradeKing (check out my TradeKing interview and review to learn more about the broker) is to offer a series of free webinars to help investors at all levels get a better understanding of trading and investing. The first webinar will be held tomorrow, October [...]

TradeKing is my latest broker that I got last December when I switched from Firstrade to TradeKing. The main reason for me to decide to open another brokerage account was that TradeKing charges less commission per trade. Since then, I have been using TradeKing quite regularly and found that the discount broker, while cheap on [...]

Just a quick announcement. In August, TradeKing had National Friendship Day promotion and from what I can see, it was quite successful. Now TradeKing is again giving a $50 bonus in October. To receive the bonus, you MUST use this link to open a broker account, fund the account with at least $2,500 and make [...]

It has been more than one year since I became a Zecco customer. Since then, I have used my Zecco account quite actively (especially with my play money) and shared my experience. Like many other Zecco customers, I like the idea of paying zero commission to buy stocks, but I had quite some frustrations with [...]

Zecco recently announced that it will give its existing and new customers unlimited free trades in both stocks and options. The online discount broker has been offering the standard 10 commission-free trades every month for its members with at least $2,500 initial funding in their accounts since last year. This new program will, even though [...]