Ally Invest offer of cash

[caracarn]

A little more involved, but if you want to make a good lump of cash by moving your investment account or some of it, Ally is offering up to $3,500 of cash

http://go.ally.com/invest/current-offers/

[HAPPYINAZ]

Etrade offers similar cash and you can often talk them into raising the bonus if you are near one of the thresholds for the next tier of cash bonus.

[Paul der Krake]

If you can do 4 per year that's like a minimum wage worker right there, just for shuffling a bunch of ETFs around.

[ThatGuy]

Ally requires you to keep your initial deposit and bonus in the account for 300 days.

[Mr. Green]

You have to move $1M+ to get $2,500 and $2M+ to get $3,500. That's a quarter percent of less. You could easily lose more than that just being out of the market for a day during the transfer.

[Cali]

Nope

[Rubic]

You have to move $1M+ to get $2,500 and $2M+ to get $3,500. That's a quarter percent of less loss. You could easily lose more than that just being out of the market for a day during the transfer.

I've switched brokerages twice in the past few years, once to Etrade and
once to ScottTrade (now TD Ameritrade), each time for a $2,500 bonus.
I'll consider the Ally bonus if it's still around next year -- though the current
Ally offer expires 7/31/18, there's usually some brokerage bonus available.

To your point about missing out on the market ... When I transfer brokerage
accounts, the exact same shares I own are transferred, so no loss (or gain)
results during the transfer process.