I have introduced a lot of sign-up opportunities from banks and credit card issuers. Actually, most brokeage companies also offer sign-up bonuses for using their service. I have a post about the sign-up bonus from ShareBuilder last year which included a lot of promotion codes for opening an account at ShareBuilder.com and get varies amount of bonuses.

However, ShareBuilder was acquired by ING Direct on November 19, 2007 for $220 million. Since then we seldom hear the sign-up bonus from ShareBuilder. Today, I found out a new promotion code from ShareBuilder-Gift50. With this new promotion code, you can get $50 bonus for opening a new account at ShareBuilder after you purchase a first stock through ShareBuilder. This is a decent deal if you want to buy stocks online. In order to get the deal, you have to click “I’m responding to a promotion” button and then enter the promotion code “Gift50“. Otherwise, you can’t get the promotion offer.

In the “Account Type” part, you can choose “Individual Account” (You can open an account for your spouse later with another $50 bonus, so don’t open joint account.). The account at ShareBuilder features:

• No account minimums
• No inactivity fees
• Invest in stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs
• Free automatic investment plan
• Investment guidance
• Gain and loss tracking

ShareBuilder is one of the most popular US brokerage with about 1 million accounts. Sharebuilder offers an easy, convenient way to begin investing, and is relatively inexpensive, but it is not free. And nearly 70% of its customers have less than 3 years of investing experience. ShareBuilder offer a variety of programs to choose from based on your own investment styles. It was rated as the Forbes Best of the Web.

For those who want to learn to invest on stock, ETF or other investments, you can try to start from ShareBuilder. In brief, Sharebuilder is an online discount brokerage that encourages automatic scheduled purchases of stocks and exchange-traded funds and extremely good for beginners.