<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by rmart2:
Do you have to move cash or can you just transfer securities from another account in another brokerage?</font>
I moved securities in order to qualify for the Delta miles, so I'm sure the same would be true for Starwood. They would prefer this - it means you really are opening a brokerage account, and will likely trade, as compared to putting in funds and pulling them out in 6 months. For Delta, though, I received half the miles to start, and then should get the other half after 6 months.