Best way to raise $500 to open a Scottrade account???

Question

Any ideas. Smart ones please. No I will not rob a bank or do something stupid. JK

Answer 1

Work hard at a job and save your money until you have $500.00.

It sounds like if you're having trouble getting to $500.00 you might want to check out setting up a ShareBuilder.com Basic account instead. It's free to open an account and you don't have to have any initial amount in there. Plus all investments are based on dollar amount, not share amount so you could invest $100.00 in Google and own like 0.25 shares of Google (partial shares). Also if you schedule your trades (each Tuesday) it's only $4.00 commission. Good Luck!

Answer 2

If you don't have enough money to open a brokerage account, you shouldn't have an account.

Your not being very realistic.  What do you expect to do with $500 in this equities market??

I think you should re-consider your game plan