The Sun's Financial Diary

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.
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Are you a Costco member?
If you are, you can get up to $90 bonus from ING ShareBuilder if you open an account with the discount broker through Costco using this link. In addition to the bonus, Executive Members can also receive 25% quarterly commission rebates, while Good Star and Business Members get 10%. The promotion [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

The $100 bonus offer from OptionsXpress is back!

To get the bonus, $500 must be deposited into the account by March 31, 2008. I opened an account when the offer was around before the new year. Now I am just waiting for the free money
Meanwhile, TradeKing is also giving $100 bonus for new accounts [...]

More bonus for using my referral links!
I have accounts with many banks, brokers, and online shopping rewards sites, etc., and some of them offer benefits for referring a new customer. If you need a referral for the following programs, please use the contact form to send me an email with a valid email address and [...]

I have been a loyal customer of Scottrade for more than 5 years. Though I have opened a number of brokerage accounts during that time period, Scottrade remains my primary broker holding most of our investable assets. There are reasons for me to stick with Scottrade (Scottrade 3 free trades offer).
Last week, Scottrade informed me [...]

Spotted this deal on FatWallet.com and it seems to be an easy money just for the holiday

If you open an OptionsXpress account and fund it with at least $500 before December 31st, they will give you a $100 bonus. From the offer page
In order to qualify for the $100 offer, account application must [...]

Good changes are coming to ShareBuilder after ING Direct bought the online discount brokerage firm a month ago.
An email from ShareBuilder over the weekend informed me that starting December 17th, the cost of trading securities at real time at ShareBuilder will be at a flat fee of $9.95 for both market and limit orders. ShareBuilder [...]