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Charles Schwab Starter Kit Offer: New Investors Open/Fund Account w/ $50+, Get

$101 Cash Bonus
for 5x S&P 500 Stock Slices
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Charles Schwab offers New Schwab Investors: Charles Schwab Investing 101 Starter Kit when you open a Schwab account and fund the account with a minimum of $50 (within 30 days), get $101 cash bonus to purchase stock slices (fractional shares of the top five stock by market cap in the S&P 500).
  • Note: Offer is valid for new Schwab Members only who enroll/fund their accounts w/ a minimum of $50 to receive $101 in cash bonus to purchase stock slices. Fractional share (stock slice) is when you own less than one whole share of a company.
 Thanks to community member devilZ for finding this deal.

Deal Instructions
  1. Open an account with Charles Schwab.
  2. Fund your account with a minimum of $50 within 30 days of opening the account to qualify.
  3. Once funded/verified, Charles Schwab will deposit $101 in cash bonus to your account to purchase your stock slices.
Schwab Starter Kit
  • $101 of Schwab Stock Slices: Get $101 and an easy way to buy fractional shares of the top five stock by market cap in the S&P 500
    • Note: Top five stocks will change from time to time. Fractional share (stock slice) is when you own less than one whole share of a company.
  • Investing Education: Unlock short videos and step-by-step guides to get the 101 on investing.
  • Tools and Resources: Easy-to-use tools and budget planners, plus investment professionals on standby 24/7 if you ever have a question.
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This bonus went away and now its back! New Charles Schwab investors can get $101 of stock slices after depositing $50 or more within 30 days.

Schwab Starter Kit [schwab.com]

The Schwab Starter Kitâ„¢ offer is only available to eligible new customers. To be eligible to receive the $101 cash bonus, you must be an individual who does not have a Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. ("Schwab") account (other than a Schwab Stock Plan Services account) and who: (1) opens a Schwab One individual taxable retail brokerage account and (2) deposits at least $50 into that account within 30 days of enrolling in the offer (only outside assets new to Schwab qualify; assets transferred from affiliates other than Schwab Retirement Plan Services are excluded).

The Schwab Starter Kit is intended to help you start investing. So with this offer, when you open your brokerage account, you will instruct Schwab to use the $101 cash bonus to place orders for you in the future to buy $20.20 fractional shares of each of the top 5 fractional shares by market capitalization in the S&P® 500 Index through Schwab Stock Slices™ (unless the orders are cancelled by you—see details below). The top 5 stocks will change from time-to-time. To see the top 5 fractional shares at any time, go to www.schwab.com/starterkit.

By agreeing to these terms and conditions you also agree to the Schwab Stock Slices Terms and Conditions, which you should review.

After you enroll in the offer, here's what will happen:

Two business days after your account is opened, Schwab will begin checking for qualifying deposits every business day. Once your qualifying deposit has been received, Schwab will credit the $101 cash bonus to your brokerage account at approximately 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time the next trading day. (If you make your qualifying deposit after 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time, Schwab will credit the $101 cash bonus at approximately 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time two trading days later.)
Schwab will send you an email about your 5 trade orders the night before the orders are placed.
Schwab will place the 5 orders for you ($20.20 fractional share orders for each of the top 5 stocks in the S&P 500) at approximately 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time the day the cash bonus is credited to your account, provided you maintain at least $50 in your brokerage account at that time.
You will have a short period of time (from approximately 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time until approximately 9:25 a.m. the next trading day) to cancel the orders.
To cancel the orders, you will need to go to the Order Status page on schwab.com or on any of Schwab's other trading platforms or call a Schwab representative at 800-435-4000.
If you cancel your orders, you will keep the $101 cash bonus and can save or invest it however you want.
If you take no action, the orders will be executed shortly after market open the next trading day. You will then see the fractional shares reflected in your account and Schwab will send you trade confirmations for the trades.
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Created 04-01-2024 at 05:00 PM by devilZ
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"Charles schwab is like silicon valley bank with outdated investment strategy which can collapse anytime"

Based on...? Source please.
What a bunch of nonsense.
From the terms, just for everyones awareness:
The cash bonus will be reported on your Form 1099-INT. Any related taxes are your responsibility.

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Bunduckie
04-08-2024 at 02:35 PM.
04-08-2024 at 02:35 PM.
Quote from javaking_1000 :
Does your un-invested cash earn anything? Like 0.5% or something? I couldn't find that info anywhere on their site.
Yes, it's less than 1%, a ridiculous rate. Go with Fidelity or Vanguard where uninvested cash earns 5%+.
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04-08-2024 at 03:55 PM.
04-08-2024 at 03:55 PM.
PSA: The only way I found to make Scwab limit selling your info to 3rd party marketing firms is to call 1-877-812-1817 from the phone number you registered with Schwab. It's an automated system. The process is pretty fast as long as you are calling from a phone number that Schwab recognizes as associated with your account.

I did not find any way to limit information sharing(selling) from their website, and I spent 20 minutes looking.
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CyanLeopard7900
04-08-2024 at 04:36 PM.
04-08-2024 at 04:36 PM.
Sucks this isn't offered on custodial accounts.
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Wulfrax
04-08-2024 at 08:13 PM.
04-08-2024 at 08:13 PM.
Quote from keep-them-coming :
I know. It was stupid lol

I hated it too.

I called in and now I am able to login.

I still can't fund because they have some issues (forgot the exact error message).

Will try again tomorrow to fund money.

Bruh. Making this free account literally turned me off to Schwab entirely.

I've had the account for 5 days now.

Every time I try to login, it forced me to CALL them and wait on hold for a special security code.

For 5 entire business days I cannot connect an external bank account to fund anything. It simply says "Technical Error, please try again later or call us". I caved and called them twice. Today they said idk your account looks fine. They gave me the phone number to a 3rd party they use to do bank account verification. I call this other place, and there is a voicemail message that says they are overwhelmed with calls and to try again at a later time.

R—I—D—I—C—U—L—O—U—S

Login issues. Constantly need to call Schwab. Uses 3rd parties for core pieces of their website.

Nah. Total garbage company. Would never ever trust my money with them.
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saveyourself
04-09-2024 at 07:35 AM.
04-09-2024 at 07:35 AM.
Cancelled 5 slice orders, though I only got $76.76 added. Put it in SWVXX for now
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Vice_Monkey
04-09-2024 at 12:23 PM.
04-09-2024 at 12:23 PM.
Cancelled my orders last night. Have 151 in my account, will only let me transfer out 101, due to some hold on the original 50 that hopefully will be released soon.
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04-09-2024 at 12:37 PM.
04-09-2024 at 12:37 PM.
Does anyone know if 13 year old can open an account?
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E4300
04-09-2024 at 12:53 PM.
04-09-2024 at 12:53 PM.
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Bruh. Making this free account literally turned me off to Schwab entirely.

I've had the account for 5 days now.

Every time I try to login, it forced me to CALL them and wait on hold for a special security code.

For 5 entire business days I cannot connect an external bank account to fund anything. It simply says "Technical Error, please try again later or call us". I caved and called them twice. Today they said idk your account looks fine. They gave me the phone number to a 3rd party they use to do bank account verification. I call this other place, and there is a voicemail message that says they are overwhelmed with calls and to try again at a later time.

R—I—D—I—C—U—L—O—U—S

Login issues. Constantly need to call Schwab. Uses 3rd parties for core pieces of their website.

Nah. Total garbage company. Would never ever trust my money with them.
Management at Schwab is clueless when it comes to good customer service. Why must all TDA customers create a new log in ID and password? Greedy Schwab pays you virtually nothing in the sweep money market account. The transition from TDA to Shwab is an ongoing mess...three years after the merger.

My TDA SEP IRA was pushed out to Schwab last year. Reason...we no longer want to maintain SEP at TDA. No problemo...Fidelity gladly accepted the $, and deposited $1000 bonus to the account.
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04-09-2024 at 05:09 PM.
04-09-2024 at 05:09 PM.
Not able to add external bank account to fund the account. It gives a technical error for last 5-6 days now. Add account number, routing number etc. & when I hit submit, it gives error "this feature is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later". Just talked to someone and they said they are aware of the issue and trying to fix it. So stupid and waste of time. Deleting my account now đŸ˜
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04-09-2024 at 07:53 PM.
04-09-2024 at 07:53 PM.
Quote from gcrack :
My bonus was not placed as a fractional order for those top 5 stocks but just deposited in the account. Dunno if something was just missed but either way, it did come through and it did give me the money.

It doesn't two days later unless you withdrawal the money
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Theresa
04-10-2024 at 09:11 AM.
04-10-2024 at 09:11 AM.
I deposited $50 last Weds and got my $101 in stock slices today. This offer is, indeed, legit.
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04-10-2024 at 10:17 AM.
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anyone know any good resources for getting kids under 18 started with investing and as well young adults around 20 years old?

I want to help get my nieces and nephews started early with investing, compound interest and all that
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04-11-2024 at 08:51 PM.
04-11-2024 at 08:51 PM.
My account is still locked after calling 3 days ago. I told the rep I use a VPN and he said that's what must have caused the fraud alerts. He said it triggered all kinds of fraud alerts. I'm closing the account and running if I ever get the $101.
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04-11-2024 at 09:24 PM.
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Quote from khalid7412002 :
anyone know any good resources for getting kids under 18 started with investing and as well young adults around 20 years old?

I want to help get my nieces and nephews started early with investing, compound interest and all that

Lots of resources out there. You could browse here to learn about any topic. https://www.fidelity.com/learning...bout-money
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04-11-2024 at 09:30 PM.
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Does anyone know if 13 year old can open an account?

They are under 18 so won't be able to open an account by themselves. You could open a custodial account for them, but I don't think that's one of the qualified accounts for the bonus...please double check the terms in case I have misread it.
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