Originally Posted by
johnnie198x
Does Charles Schwab still do hard pull when opening account? I got a HP from them when I tried to open an account. And the most stupid thing was they refused to open because I was traveling outside the US (still US address and everything, only IP was foreign)
I would assume so because step one is getting the brokerage account, which presumably has the potential go under water if you trade derivatives and/or on margin.