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Ok ok, the offer is a little rich, but if you have $100,000 to deposit or transfer, such as from some retirement accounts, into a TDAmeritrade account, you can get yourself a free Garmin nüvi 660 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator plus a $200 Shell gift card. If you have $50,000, you can transfer or deposit that sum and get just the Garmin GPS unit. The deadline for this offer is August 30th. From a straight ROI perspective, the Garmin nüvi is worth $300 so the first $50,000 deposit is worth more than the second one.

The account must remain open for 12 months with the minimum funding requirements ($50k or $100k) but otherwise the offer is pretty straight-forward.

Promotion

Zecco, which stands for Zero Cost Commissions, is a recent entrant to the cheap stock trade brokerage game and they offer the cheapest trades out there. For the first 10 trades a month, you pay $0. The only requirement is that you have $2,500 in your account to start.

Are they a scam? Not according to my research on whether Zecco was a scam but it pays for you to do your own due diligence if you are still concerned.

(Zecco used offer no minimums and unlimited trades, claiming to earn enough off advertisements and margin interest, but they’ve since taken that away)

TradeKing is a discount online brokerage company that has no minimum account requirements and no fees. They are offering a $100 bonus when you open up an account with a $2,500 deposit and one trade. What you’ll need to do is sign up for an account, deposit $2,500, then make a single trade and withdraw everything except $1,000 - that’s how much you’ll need to qualify for the bonus. Just leave that in there for 6 months to keep the $100 bonus, which should appear after your first trade. Then, after six month, cash out (or keep the account).

There are more details in the sign up link above.

Sharebuilder is a great specialty brokerage firm that specializes in the old Buy and Hold and Dollar Cost Averaging parts of the investing spectrum. For a mere $4 a scheduled trade, you can slowly build up positions, dollar cost averaging as you go, in your favorites stocks. To get you jump started, Sharebuilder offers plenty of promotional codes such as $50 free for opening up an account, depositing $50, and making a single trade.

Check out this comprehensive list of Sharebuilder promotion codes to get you started.

TDAmeritrade has a promotion on their front page for commission free trades for a whole month plus $100 if you fund a non-IRA account with at least $25,000.

Terms & Conditions:

Offer valid for one new individual or Joint TD AMERITRADE account opened by 12/31/07 and funded within 30 days with $2,000 or more. To receive $100 bonus, account must be funded with $25,000 or more within 30 days of account open date. IRA and other tax-exempt accounts are not eligible to receive the $100 cash bonus. Offer is not transferable and not valid with internal transfers, accounts using the Amerivest service, current TD AMERITRADE accounts or with other offers. Qualified commission-free Internet equity orders must execute within 30 days of account funding. Limit one offer per client. Taxes related to TD AMERITRADE offers are your responsibility. Retail values totaling $600 or more during the calendar year will be included in your consolidated Form 1099. Account must remain open with minimum funding for 9 months, or TD AMERITRADE may charge the account for the cost of the cash awarded to the account. TD AMERITRADE reserves the right to restrict or revoke this offer at any time. This is not an offer or solicitation in any jurisdiction where we are not authorized to do business.