Free Stocks, Cash Awards, Investment Money and Tips

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a major topic of discussion has been how to get into the market while it's down or "buy low" now so you can "sell high" later.

To get you started, I've rounded up a list of brokers you can check out in case you'd like to see the different ways each is able to manage your stock and even cryptocurrency investments. To help you find which it's in your best interests to use as primary investing accounts, I would be more than happy to discuss my experiences with each as well as the promos I know of and how they all work if you'd like or you can Google them or try them out yourself! Either way, each has its pros and cons but all exist because they have their own merits AND each one I've listed gives you either fractional or whole stock shares for joining. They are all also completely free to set up, they all have mobile apps you can use to manage your account on the go, and most offer comission-free trading. Some even offer decent interest rates on the uninvested money you hold in your account and/or considerable cash awards or additional stock shares for funding your account, whether you choose to invest the money or not. Disclaimer: I do benefit if you decide to use any of the referral links below but I also believe these are worth a look for various reasons (the free stock, if nothing else) and am more than happy to discuss investing and anything else related to finance whether you decide to use them or not.

Without further ado, here are your brokers:

-Robinhood: Join Robinhood and get a share of stock for free when you use the following invite link: http://share.robinhood.com/aletae

-Webull: Open a Webull brokerage account and receive ONE (1) free stock valued between $2.5-$250. Deposit ANY amount and get an additional free stock valued between $12-$1400. https://bit.ly/37Q1F2Z (case sensitive)

-Nvstr: a new, collaborative way to invest, they will give you up to $1,000 free cash to invest when you join. Sign up here: https://www.nvstr.com/share/ac9b367c

-Firstrade: Join Firstrade today and get a free share of stock. Use the following link to claim the stock without having to invest money first: https://share.firstrade.com/AletaM0WG

-Moomoo: Join moomoo and open a trading account, you'll get a free stock card valued $4-$200. When you deposit $500 or more, you'll get another one valued $10-$1000. It could be Netflix, Beyond meat, Uber or Groupon. https://j.moomoo.com/00163m 

-Public: Join me on Public and own the companies you believe in. Get started with free stock 👉 share.public.com/JOKRlovesBBC

‐M1 Finance: With M1, you can automatically invest in what you want for free. Try it today and get $10 to invest! https://m1.finance/ZidFcwhLlVsV

-SoFi Invest: SoFi Invest 📊 allows you to buy and sell stocks (and pieces of stocks) with zero fees. Open an Active Investing account with $5,000 or more, and you'll get $100 in stock!: https://www.sofi.com/share/invest/2731202

-Cash App: Cash App allows you to send money for free as well as invest in fractional shares of stock and cryptocurrency. Enter the code FQKNJDV when you sign up and we'll send you $5 when you try it. https://cash.me/app/about

-TD Ameritrade is fantastic as well. I don't have a referral code for them and they don't offer any free bonuses that I'm aware of, unless you fund your account with a large dollar amount, but their platform and phone app are both intuitive and loaded with the tools you need for efficiently and quickly analyzing and placing trades.

Next, I highly recommend Morning Brew's newsletter for keeping up with markets and news, new investing ideas, and more. They've provided insight regarding and turned me onto a number of traditional and alternative investment ideas of which some of the more unconventional ones include DiversyFund & Groundfloor (types of real estate investments), SeedInvest (where you can invest in startups and companies such as Winc), and Masterworks (where you can invest in fine art). Their description: "A free daily email that delivers the top business news in just a 5-minute read." You can sign up here:
https://morningbrew.com/daily/r/?kid=980a6ae4&utm_source=twitter_share

Mentioned above, if you're interested in Groundfloor, I do have a referral link for that which will get you a free $10 to invest: https://www.groundfloor.us/new_referral/iec633

I'm not saying that trading or investing without the help of a financial advisor is for everyone or that you should go and put money into obscure investments without doing your homework (please don't!), but anyone can at least benefit from the array of free stocks and investments above and decide where to go from there. It all adds up and investing and diversification are obviously extremely important, especially for and in times such as these.

If you're interested in brushing up on your technical analysis skills for trading or need to learn fundamental analysis for investing or how to get into forex or crypto trading or anything, I'd be happy to send some extremely beneficial learning tools your way for that too. (These would be in the form of free online courses, YouTube videos, or articles I've found and bookmarked over the past couple of years.) Some of these are topics I'm still getting a handle on myself but I'm learning quickly thanks to the myriad of resources currently available online and would love to share and discuss with anyone interested!

Hope this helps at least a few of you! Stay safe out there and happy investing! :)