The Offer
- WeBull brokerage is offering new users bonus of up to $5,000 when you transfer over investments:
- Transfer $2,000: Get $100 Transfer fee Reimbursement
- Transfer $10,000: Get $100 + $100 Transfer fee Reimbursement
- Transfer $25,000: Get $300 + $100 Transfer fee Reimbursement
- Transfer $100,000: Get $1,200 + $100 Transfer fee Reimbursement
- Transfer $500,000: Get $3,000 + $100 Transfer fee Reimbursement
- Transfer $1,000,000: Get $5,000 + $100 Transfer fee Reimbursement
The Fine Print
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Offer Period: Oct 2, 2023 12:00 AM EST – Oct 30, 2023 11:59 PM EST.
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Offer Eligibility: This promotional offer (the “Offer”) is only open to current customers in good standing of Webull Financial LLC (“Webull”) who have opened a brokerage account on or after Oct 2, 2023. To be eligible for this Offer, the customer must (1) be at least 18 years of age, (2) reside in the United States, (3) have a valid social security number or tax identification number, and (4) initiate a transfer of that brokerage account to Webull via the Automated Customer Account Transfer Service (“ACATS”) during the Offer Period (the “Account Transfer”) (“Qualifying Customers”). The Offer does not apply to individual retirement accounts (IRAs).
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Offer Requirements: Qualifying Customers will receive an invitation to participate in this promotion either through e-mail or push notification within the Webull mobile app. For Qualifying Customers who initiate an Account Transfer during the Offer Period and have an Account Value of $2000 or more, Webull will reimburse the transfer fee of $100(the “Transfer Fee Reimbursement”). Transfer fee reimbursement is only eligible for customers who have never transferred a brokerage account to Webull. Internal transfers between Webull brokerage accounts do not count.
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Qualifying Customers who make a net incoming Account Transfer(the value of cash and securities transferred to Webull less withdrawals or transferred as of January 29th 2024 11:59 PM ET) of $2,000 or more during the Offer Period (“Eligible Customers”) will receive cash reward.
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Eligible Customers will not accrue Offer Rewards on a cumulative basis. For example, an Eligible Customer with a Net Incoming Account Value of $30,000 as of 11:59 PM EST on January 29th, 2024 will receive Offer Rewards solely in the amount of $300, and will not be entitled to receive an additional $100 of Offer Rewards for exceeding the preceding Net Incoming Account Value tiers.
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Offer Rewards earned by an Eligible Customer will be deposited to such Eligible Customer’s Webull Brokerage Account on or about January 30, 2024. Eligible Customers that have accrued Offer Rewards in accordance with these Terms and Conditions will not need to take any additional actions to accept or claim their accrued Offer Rewards.
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Limitations: Transfer Fee Reimbursement and Offer Rewards must be claimed through the Webull mobile app by 11:59 pm EST on January 30, 2024 (the “Reward Date”) in the My Rewards page of the Webull app. Offer Rewards not claimed by the Claim Date will expire and cannot be reissued.
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Webull reserves the right to either decline to grant the Offer or requests to enroll in the Offer in its sole discretion, including for, but not limited to: (1) Transfer Fee Reimbursement per social security number; (2)cryptocurrency and options are excluded from this Offer; (3)any securities or other investments transferred via ACATS that are not tradable on the Webull platform, such as mutual funds or over-the-counter (OTC) shares, may be liquidated or rejected and may not be included in the calculation of Account Value; (4) failure to meet the requirements and qualifications of the Offer; (5) actual or suspected fraudulent activity; (6) attempting to undermine the legitimate operation of the Offer by cheating, hacking, deception, or other unfair or improper conduct (including, without limitation, the creation of multiple accounts and/or inducing referrals by the payment of compensation), or (7) any violation of these Terms and Conditions. Webull reserves the right to change the terms or terminate the Offer at any time without notice. If, for any reason, the Offer is not capable of running as planned including, but not limited to, by reason of tampering, unauthorized intervention, labor dispute, fraud, or any other cause beyond the control of Webull which, in the sole opinion of Webull, corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Offer, then Webull reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Offer.
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The Offer is limited to no more than one account enrolled per customer. The Offer is not transferable or saleable and is available to legal U.S. residents only.
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This Offer is valid alongside other promotions offered by Webull.
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Employees, contractors, or persons similarly associated with Webull or its affiliate(s); members of their household; Webull Influencers; registered representatives of broker-dealers; employees of any securities regulator, self-regulatory organization or securities exchange; and/or employees of any market maker are not eligible. The Offer is only available for personal use and may not be used for commercial purposes. Other restrictions may apply. Void where prohibited. No substitution, cash redemption, assignment or transfer permitted, except by Webull, who reserves the right in its sole discretion to substitute Stock Reward with another prize of equal or equal value.
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All federal, state, and local taxes, if any, related to a prize are the responsibility of the individual winner.
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Not Advice: Neither receipt nor identification of a particular stock in communications related to this Offer constitutes a solicitation, recommendation to buy, sell, or hold, or investment advice. Consult with your tax advisor about the appropriate tax treatment for this Offer and any tax implications associated with receipt of a stock reward before enrolling.
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Where required by applicable rules and regulations, the value of all Webull offers received may be reported as Other Income on Form 1099-MISC. Webull is not responsible for any taxes related to this Offer or any stock reward program.
Our Verdict
It sounds like the $100 the Transfer Fee Reimbursement is automatic. Regardless, $1,200/$1,300 for transferring $100k is an excellent bonus when compared to other brokerage bonuses. A lot of the other tiers can be very interesting as well. (You should also get 6-12 free stocks, per the offer page, so that would be another $18 value or more.)
The terms do confuse me somewhat, but I believe the way it works is as follows:
- Open a new WeBull account between October 2nd through 30th. I believe any new WeBull customer who opens (or opened) an account any time from October 2nd through October 30th will be eligible for the bonus. But be sure to check that you received the notification of the bonus after opening the account. (“Qualifying Customers will receive an invitation to participate in this promotion either through e-mail or push notification within the Webull mobile app.”).
Transfer over your assets by January 29, 2024. Based on your total assets transferred by that date will determine your bonus.Update: another interpretation is that the funds have to be transferred over by October 30, 2023. Readers have heard from WeBull reps that the transfer has to be initiated by October 30th.-
- I believe you can do multiple smaller transfers and count them all together, e.g. transfer over two separate asset transfers of $50k each will get you to the $100k tier. But the fine print confuses me a bit on this point.
- Claim your bonus on January 30, 2024 in the app. There are conflicting terms in the fine print about whether you have to manually claim the reward or it will post automatically. Incredibly, one point in the fine print sounds like you have to claim the reward within the app on the very same day that it becomes available or else it will be forfeited. I’m probably misunderstanding something in the terms.
We’ll add this to our List of Best Brokerage Bonuses. Feel free to share experiences with WeBull in the comments below.
WeBull also has a separate cash bonus for cash deposits to their Cash Management account which we cover in this dedicated post. See that post and the verdict there for more interesting discussion.
Hat tip to reader 007
https://www.webull.com/offers-promotions/transfer-promo
Seen on another forum. 2% for taxable account transfer, paid out over 2 years.
Promotion valid through 7/31.
Nice! Posted thx https://www.doctorofcredit.com/webull-2-brokerage-transfer-bonus-up-to-100000-bonus/
FYI for anyone (like me) who forgot to “Claim” the reward within 30 days of it being issued. ($1200 reward was showing as “Expired”)
I messaged them via chat, and quoted the paragraph of the offer terms about “not need[ing] to take any additional actions to accept or claim their accrued Offer Rewards.”
They forwarded my request to the promos team, and they re-issued my Offer Reward. (Still needed to be “claimed” but at least I didn’t lose out on $1200!) Kinda BS that the Terms of the offer are self contradictory, but at least they made it right.
Thanks so much to DoC for keeping this page up since the official Offer Terms page is no longer present on Webull’s website. (And thanks for including a direct link to the original Terms page, since I was able to pull it up via Wayback Machine.) I definitely wouldn’t have been able to get the reward reissued without DoC’s page here. Huge thanks!
That’s wild that you could forget to claim 1200 bucks.
Hi Mark,
I am in the same boat. By any chance, you can send me an email to xiaoyu.ivy@gma i l.com Did they ask you about the screenshot? Thank you so much for your help.
They did not ask about any screenshots. I’m sure they have the official terms of the offer still on their side and that’s what I quoted from verbatim. So it would be easy enough for them to validate what I claimed.
That being said, I can send you the screenshots/links to the Wayback Machine if you need them. Lmk.
Chuck the link to this offer seems dead. It is listed on the best brokerages page.
Updated now, thanks
I initiated a partial ACAT out on 2/23
Did the partial ACAT transfer go well? Any transfer fee charged? Thanks.
Webull always charges a $75 fee for ACAT transfers out, even partial transfers (at least, for accounts that used Apex Clearing; I haven’t tried a transfer out of their new omnibus account). My partial ACAT transfer into Schwab from Webull Apex worked fine; took 6 days.
Is there a holding period or are we free to transfer out and/or close? What are others doing? Thanks
I’m holding until May for cash balance bonus.
Anyone transfer out yet? Planning to do partial transfer out to chase the next bonus.
@mod — Given that the reward earned has to be claimed by end of Feb (it doesn’t get credited automatically), I think a PSA/update would be useful.
William Charles Chuck
My negative DP.
Transferred ACAT 100k to WeBull in time
Got some dividends from the ETF, and transfer them out(1k).
01/30/23 – got only 300$ bonus, appears that they deducting it from Net Asset.
Customer service refused to do anything about it, seems like I have to accept the loss(seems like misunderstanding of their shady terms).
Anyone had similar experience, and Finra was helpful with that(worth trying)?…
Doubt it, the terms are pretty clear:
Qualifying Customers who make a net incoming Account Transfer(the value of cash and securities transferred to Webull less withdrawals or transferred as of January 29th 2024 11:59 PM ET)…
Did you transfer exactly 100k? You should always leave some margin for errors/unexpected fees, and triple check the terms if you’re going to make withdrawals during the holding time for any kind of bonus, not just brokerages. Nowhere does it say maintaining a 100k min. daily balance is necessary or sufficient. Wells on the other hand will penalize you if your value drops to a lower tier due to market fluctuations. Goldman’s annual Marcus bonus (which doesn’t seem available this year) will not let you withdraw below your balance on the final day of your deposit window, even if the total deposits are made are still higher than the minimum 10k.
Yes, this is also a good reminder for people who did both the transfer and cash management bonuses together. Let’s say you moved in $100k to qualify for both, you should not pull out the $1,200 bonus because it would move your tier down for the cash management bonus that does not pay out for a few more months.
Nothing wrong with the person above trying to appeal to customer service, but definitely a good learning lesson for them that most of these promotion are based simply on deposits vs withdrawals and the actual changing of account value typically does not matter.
How do you qualify for both cash management and brokerage bonus? As I understand you need to do an ACAT transfer for brokerage bonus?
If you transferred cash with the ACAT for transfer bonus then according to customer service that cash would also count towards the cash management bonus.
Not a fan of raising a big stink and filing complaints when you didn’t even follow the terms of the promotion (for the tier you wanted to achieve).
Reward claimed on 1/30 and deposited on 1/31.
Wow, same here…much faster than the transfer fee reimbursement that took 11 days to deposit.
Still shows in transit for me. Do you have a cash or margin account?
Mine is a cash account…
I have a margin account.
In my margin account, I claimed the voucher on 1/30, and the cash was deposited in my account on 2/1
Same here.
Reward now eligible to be claimed. Claim date expires February 29, 2024 0:00, so more like February 28th.