Originally Posted by
Happy
The most you can get is 50K for $100K deposit for 6 months, ONCE every 12 months. So you cannot accomplish the same thing as BD, not in the BD scale, i.e. no way to get 200K miles per year. All you can get is 50K every 12 months. Therefore while the cost is about the same (actually the fido's deal is slightly more costly) it cannot be scale up to the level the BD would give you.
And it is not brokerage houses as TD has long ceased offer any bonus for miles or SPG pts. All you can get from TD is free trades or statement credits. Fido is the only game in town.
Fidelity is the only brokerage house giving ff sign-up bonuses now? That's not good. It used to be fairly easy to find these, and they were fairly lucrative.