yeah yeah, I already posted on this board maybe a couple days ago. I tried, both etrade and ameritrade. They do NOT allow penny positions to be brought into an account, but they allow trading if buying from scratch which is too late in my case, at least for now. Bummer.
I also just checked OptionsExpress per another thread response, and same thing, no-go, and he was pretty clear about it. He cited risk in the movement between accounts, that between large brokers it would probably be fine, but they just have an all-out ban so as to not take any chances.