Major thanks to beltway and rob_flies_ua for making this much easier for us. What would be really useful is knowing precisely how the partners determine the activity date and their posting schedule. It would reduce a lot of clutter in the threads and we can mostly concentrate on minimising costs. The data at gsscorecard.com could be used for this purpose.

I am not really happy with the bloggers messing up sharebuilder for all of us. How hard was it really to set up a one-time automatic investment? There are so many coupons available to offset the commission and you can invest any amount. $5 or more in one of Vanguard's ETFs would have been a good choice/advice. Instead of that, they went for the dramatic one whose sole purpose would be to increase traffic to their blogs.