Zecco: Go Paperless or Pay for Your Paper Statement

Posted by Sun on May 1, 2008 (2) Comment

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 [...]

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Zecco Removes Stock Trade Account Minimum to Lure More Investors

Posted by Sun on June 5, 2007 (10) 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 (15) Comment

No, I am not talking about their commission free trading (check out Zecco new pricing policy for more details on how to get commission free trades).
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 [...]

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Zecco Review Plus Free Trading Account Opening Process

Posted by Sun on May 28, 2007 (39) Comment

Zecco Trading is an online broker that lets you buy stocks/ETFs for free. Open an account with a minimum $25,000 and receive commission free trades.
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 [...]

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Zecco Promotion: Lowers Account Minimum, for now, but Keeps the News like a Secret

Posted by Sun on April 16, 2007 (18) Comment

Early last week, I learned that Zecco the commission-free online brokerage firm, is running a promotion with lowered account minimum from $2,500 to $1,000. That seems to be a good news for small investors who can’t meet the initial deposit requirement. In fact, the $2,500 minimum is the highest among several brokerages as shown on [...]

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Zecco Free Dividend Reinvestment Confirmed

Posted by Sun on October 19, 2006 (8) Comment

Recently, Zecco started offering equity free trade for customers with $2,500 or more in their accounts. While this news certainly got my attention considering that I am now paying from $4 to $7 for each stock trade, there was one question that I didn’t find answer from their posts: there’s no mention of dividend reinvestment. [...]

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