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Current Bank & Broker Promotion Bonuses
If you are looking for a little incentive to open a bank or brokerage account, there are a few promotions currently running which will give you as much as $50 bonus for a single new account. Check them out. Maybe there’s something you need
TradeKing $50 bonus for a new account: Open an account [...]
How to Open a Scottrade Account
Scottrade is a leading online discount broker which offers a wide range of products at very competitive price. If you are considering opening an account with Scottrade and start to invest in the stock market yourself, here’s a good video that will help you get a better understanding of what Scottrade offers. In this video, [...]
Firstrade Trading Platform Review
Early last week, I took a look at Scottrade trading platform because it’s the broker that I use the most for stock trading (not that I trade a lot). As you know, Scottrade isn’t my only stock broker. In fact, it is one of many brokerage accounts I own. Another *old* account I have is [...]
Quicken Giveaway Winners
Thanks everyone for participating the 2010 Quicken Deluxe giveaway I ran last week. The contest received a total of 61 entries. Now the winners are selected by random number generator at random.org and they are:
Drew at 21 and Heather S at 38. Congrats to the two lucky winners! The Quicken software you won will be [...]
Chase Sapphire Card 10,000 Bonus Points Promotion
The new Chase Sapphire Card is a premier travel rewards card that offers excellent credit card features. Some of the key benefits of the Sapphire Card include:
Earn 1 point for each $1 spent on purchases.
Earn an additional 1 point for each $1 of eligible airfare net purchases made online through the program booking tool.
There are [...]
OptionsHouse Promotion Code for 100 Free Trades
OptionsHouse is one of the discount brokers that I have an account with.
I opened the account in June when I found that it charges only $2.95 per stock trade, much less than other brokers I use (Zecco offers free trade, but the requirement is rather high for small investors). However, it disappointed me when I [...]
Transfer Fund to Scottrade Brokerage Account Is Easy
The stock is down pretty badly so far today. For some investors, this is an opportunity to buy stocks at a better price, given that the market was down four out of the six trading sessions. Suppose that you see a stock that you have wanted to buy and today it finally reaches the price [...]
Join Prosper, Get $50 Free Money to Start Lending
Prosper, one of the earliest players in peer-to-peer lending, was quite last year and early this year because it failed to meet regulatory requirements. It wasn’t allowed to keep operating until it was cleared by the SEC. Its chief rival Lending Club, on the other hand, was quick to get the OK from the regulator [...]
Is Ally Bank in Trouble?
The bank itself may be not, but its parent, GMAC Financial Services, is certainly in a situation no bank wants to be in.
News came out this morning that GMAC, the recipient of billions of dollars of taxpayer money since last December, is going back to the government to ask for more money. That would be [...]
ING Direct Business Savings Account Reference Code for $25 Bonus
I took advantage of an early bonus offer for ING Direct Business Savings Account last month and got an account for myself plus $50 bonus from the one-time offer What I like about the account is not only the decent yield (currently at 1.15% APY) of the Business Savings Account, but also the [...]
Lending Club Loan Default and Credit Score and Debt-to-Income Ratio
In my post over the weekend, I took a quick look at Lending Club’s new statistics page. The improved web page offers potential lenders a range of tools to evaluate the overall performance and risk of lending money through Lending Club. In addition to statistics provided by LC, you can also download raw data from [...]
