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E*Trade announced a new iPhone App this week called E*TRADE Mobile Pro for iPhone.  The App provides the same core functionality as the desktop and is fully synchronized in real time with the online account.  (They also have an service for BlackBerry users – see https://us.etrade.com/e/t/mobile_pro/.)

Customers are provided:

• Streaming real-time quotes, news and market information
• Easy stock and options trading
• Live accounts, watch lists and portfolios
• Quick free cash transfers

See also:
http://www.moneycafe.com/markets/
http://www.moneycafe.com/markets/stockscreening.htm

MarketWatch has a number of investment newsletters currently offering free trials.

Free 30 Day Trial of MarketWatchs’ Hulbert Interactive Newsletter
• Hulbert Interactive, with Mark Hulbert, gives investors 24-hour access to The Hulbert Financial Digest’s performance ratings and search over 180 stock and mutual fund newsletters with over 500 recommended portfolios.

Free 30 Day Trial of MarketWatch’s Proactive Fund Investor Newsletter
• The Proactive Fund Investor, with Bill Donoghue, teaches investors how to take advantage of opportunities in bull & bear markets. Have your visitors subscribe today to receive advice from the “father of safe money investing.”

Free 30 Day Trial of MarketWatchs’ Retirement Weekly Newsletter
• Retirement Weekly is written by renowned retirement specialist Robert Powell and is the only weekly online resource that specializes exclusively in the financial, lifestyle, and health care issues of retirement. Every easy-to-read issue is dedicated to helping readers improve upon saving, investing, and spending.

Free 30 Day Trial of MarketWatch’s The Technical Indicator Newsletter
• The Technical Indicator offers a technical analysis of the market for sophisticated traders. Using candlestick charts and proprietary tools, The Technical Indicator establishes near-term market bias and identifies patterns, trends, support and resistance levels, moving averages, attractive entry and exit points, buying opportunities and more.

Free 30 Day Trial of MarketWatch’s ETF Trader Newsletter
• ETF Trader is an advisory service for investors who want to take advantage of the investment potential of exchange-traded funds. The heart of ETF Trader is the Lowell Technical Trading System, the fruit of editor Jim Lowell’s 20 years of investment research. The system is a proven method for maximizing your investment while minimizing your downside risk.

Free 30 Day Trial of MarketWatch’s Options Trader Newsletter
• MarketWatch Options Trader is geared towards the trader who is looking to utilize and leverage options while maintaining an emphasis on risk. The newsletter will help you to anticipate and follow trends and then determine simple strategies of buying puts and calls. The newsletter will also help you with more complex methods of engaging the options market such as spread trades and hedging techniques.

ShareBuilder is offering a $50 Bonus for opening an account and transferring your current brokerage account.  ShareBuilder is an investment service that claims to make investing easy and affordable for everyone.  They offer reduced commissions and have eliminated account minimums and maintenance fees.  More information about their accounts is here.

See:
http://content.sharebuilder.com/mgdcon/jump/consumer/transfer/index.htm

Open a new Ameritrade account before March 31st and trade commission free for 30 days.  And if your new account is a non-IRA account funded with at least $25,000 Ameritrade will also give you $100.   Commission free trades are limited to 500 equity trades within 30 days of account funding.  Accounts must remain open for nine months.

See:
http://www.tdameritrade.com/offer/special.html

Just in time for the end of tax season while there is still time to open an IRA, E*Trade has a promotion running for opening a new IRA account and getting 100 free trades.  Some of the fine print on the offer says that customers must agree to electronic delivery of statements and confirmations.   E*Trade will credit the account for commissions paid during the first 30 days on up to 100 trades.  Active traders could save a bit of money.

Click below for more information.

A few weeks ago we added our Stock and Mutual Fund Screener to help our community find the right investments in these trying times.    We now have an Editable Watchlist that allows you to customize your list and track your stocks, index funds, mutual funds and market indexes in one convenient location.

See:
http://www.moneycafe.com/markets/index.htm?qm_target_page=Watchlist
http://www.moneycafe.com/markets/stockscreening.htm