Originally Posted by MrMaxwell

I think it's worth a couple of hundred bucks.. but he wants $1000
I'm half tempted to do it, though, because having access to an interactive brokers account would be a very very good thing and I can't get one without 10k initial deposit .... but god damn, 1000 bucks?! There's no risk to him- the account would be opened and kept in HIS name and I wouldn't have access to it until he withdrew the 10k .....

I really want an IB account but wow a grand is steep