I recently was invited by a friend who knows I like to trade stocks to get on an app called Robinhood. In the past I had always traded on Ameritrade which charged a fee of $9.99 to buy and $9.99 to sell an equity. That's about $20 to simply get in and get out of the stock market.
Well on Robinhood, it is completely FREE to buy and sell stock. Also, they give both the referral and the referrer a free share of stock when they invite you and you sign up using their invitation link so that's what I'm going to do here:
Use this and we will both get a free share of stock (chosen randomly and can include companies like Apple, Facebook, etc.) :
http://share.robinhood.com/toddc79
They also give you the option to add $1000 of extra purchasing power for an extra $6/month, $2000 for an extra $10/month, and finally an extra $3,000 purchasing power for $15/month. You get 30 days for free! This works out to roughly trading on margin at a very competitive 6% APR. A great way to leverage for cheap, not to mention you can cancel it at anytime before it renews each month with the click of a button, so simple. With the stock market doing phenomenal I must say this year I have never been so bullish, should be a great 2018!