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Create and Customize Watchlists

Learn how to create and customize a watchlist on thinkorswim.

Customize Platform Appearance

Customize the color scheme and font size on thinkorswim.

Edit and Customize Studies

TOS Overview

Get elite-level trading tools and powerful resources with the thinkorswim trading platform. Trade equities, options, futures, and forex powered by insights and education to help you understand the most complex strategies and techniques.

Account Summary

Discover a quick guide to your account status though an at-a-glance summary on the thinkorswim platform.

Chat Rooms and Live Support

Trading no longer has to be a lonely endeavor. With the thinkorswim chat rooms, you can interact with other traders to share ideas, chat about market volatility, or commiserate over a trade that went against you.

Customizing Gadgets in the Left Sidebar on thinkorswim®

FX Currency Map

Tour the global markets with the FX Global Currency Map. Learn how to add this gadget and customize the display.

Beta Weighting

The beta weighting feature of the thinkorswim platform's Monitor tab is a favorite feature of many experienced traders for use in assessing systemic or market risk.

FX Statements

The FX Statements section is one of the few areas of the thinkorswim platform that is exclusive to Forex trading. Each report provided is unique and helpful to a Forex trader.

Monitor Tab

The Monitor tab introduction to Activity and Positions, Account Statement, and FX Statements sub-tabs including the information contained in each.

Placing Option Trades: Strategy Roller

The Strategy Roller™ is a feature of the thinkorswim platform used to manage covered call option strategies. This tool offers a new way of managing covered call positions with greater ease but equal flexibility...

Position Statement

Learn how to customize the Position Statement, enter orders directly from a current position, beta weight, and more…

Trade Activity

Review today’s trades from the Activity and Positions Statement. Discover how to enter or change orders from this portion of the thinkorswim platform.

Using the Account Statement on thinkorswim®

Active Trader

The Active Trader interface offers some slick functionalities, so strap yourself in and send your orders to market--fast!

All Products

An introduction to the Trade tab’s All Products section. Watch this tutorial to view its various features and functions including how to lookup symbols, enter simple/advanced orders, customize layouts, and more…

Analyze Company Financials

Buying and Selling Stock

Discover how to trade stocks on the thinkorswim platform--update your order type, adjust the price, and more!

Conditional Orders

Learn to customize your trades by creating conditional orders on thinkorswim®.

Covered Stock

One of the more common option strategies is the covered call or covered stock order.

Custom Conditional Orders

Learn to customize your trades by creating conditional orders on thinkorswim®.

Forex Trader

A little something for our currency traders: watch for an overview on customizing, reviewing and placing trades in your Forex account.

Futures Contract Specifications in thinkorswim

Find futures contract specifications in the thinkorswim platform.

How to Create Stop Orders on thinkorswim® Desktop

How to Create Trailing Stop Orders on thinkorswim® Desktop

OCO Orders

Options Time and Sales

The “Options Time and Sales” section of the thinkorswim platform details ALL of the time and sales data for ALL of the option trades that have occurred on the underlying during the current trading day.

Order Spreads

Place a Single Leg Options Trade

Placing Futures Trades

The thinkorswim software allows you to easily place and manage Futures orders.

Placing Option Trades

Get an introduction into Options Trading on the thinkorswim platform -- learn about display customization, option chains, and both simple and complex option order entry.

Placing Option Trades on Futures

Approval to trade options on futures products can, among other things, allow you to hedge an equity or futures portfolio on the thinkorswim platform.

Placing Option Trades: Calendars

A Calendar spread is an option strategy involving two options on the same strike across two different months in the same stock symbol.

Placing Option Trades: Vertical Roll

When placing a vertical roll, it is imperative to set up the page display to show the information that you prefer.

Placing Stop Orders

All about Stop Orders – What they are and how to enter them. Learn how to place stop orders from all over the thinkorswim platform.

State Street ETFs in thinkorswim

Find Fund Weighting, the Company Profile, and more for State Street ETFs in thinkorswim.

Today's Options Statistics

Looking for detailed option data? The "Trade" tab’s "All Products" sub-tab details a statistical breakdown for every optionable security the thinkorswim platform offers.

Trade Tab

Get familiar with the Trade Tab by watching this brief summary of its sub-tabs and their capabilities.

Access Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)

Access Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) | thinkorswim

Add Simulated Trades

Adding simulated trades on stocks, options, futures, or even currency pairs is as easy as a few clicks of the mouse. By design, you can simulate any number of market events and “what if” scenarios, all before ever placing actual capital at risk.

Analyze Tab

The Analyze tab is capable of simulating forward/back-testing environments as well as evaluating potential trade ideas and implementing risk mitigation strategies. Much like a game of chess, traders should consider potential outcomes in order to craft their trading strategy.

Earnings Analysis Tab

The latest release of thinkorswim contains an exciting new feature called the Earnings Analysis tab. This tool enhances your ability to research the effects of earnings announcements on securities and derivatives pricing.

Economic Data Tab

The Economic Data tab enables you to access and use a database of hundreds of thousands economic indicators, or time series, from dozens of sources. Indicators presented in this database cover a great variety of economic areas including, but not limited to: banking, finance, national accounts, exchange rates, population and employment surveys, international data, and much more. This product uses the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Fundamentals Tab in thinkorswim

In this video, we'll show you how to find the Fundamentals Tab in thinkorswim.

Probability Analysis

Trading is about probabilities. It’s not a perfect science but if you were contemplating buying a particular position, you might want to evaluate the probability of the underlying falling above or below a break-even point by a specified expiration.

Risk Profile

The Risk Profile tool makes stress-testing your trading ideas easy by performing the math for you and drawing the risk curves of the potential profit and loss possibilities.

thinkBack

Use this tool to go "back-in-time” and study simulated trades based on nearly a decade of historical option data.

Scan Tab

You can find literally tens of thousands of possible stock, option, futures, and FOREX products available on the thinkorswim platform. Now you'll know where to look!

Scans and Alerts

Sizzle-Index-trade-

thinkorswim's Sizzle Index screens for stocks exhibiting unusually high options volume as compared to their previous 5 day options' volume. This unusual interest can potentially identify an opportunity making the sizzle index a very helpful tool.

Spread Book

The Spread Book is a scanning tool allowing you the ability to view client working orders from the option spread book.

Spread Hacker

Scan for option spreads by defined criteria.

Stock Hacker

Scan for stocks, options, or ETF’s that meet any number of criteria and learn to save or load scan queries for future use.

Alerts

MarketWatch Tab

Visit the MarketWatch tab when you want more insight and visibility into the markets. This intuitive tab is filled with data that puts the pulse of the marketplace at your fingertips. The MarketWatch tab consists of six separate sub-tabs: Quotes, Alerts, Watch, Heat Map, Rollover Rates for Currency Traders, and a Calendar.

Quotes and Watchlists

Discover how to create Watchlists and use the Quotes section of the MarketWatch tab. You will learn how to monitor indexes, sectors, and symbols.

Rollover Rates

The Rollover Rates sub-tab is an instrumental report for any Forex trader. Try it out, customize the columns and upgrade your Forex trading experience.

Using the Calendar

The thinkorswim platform comes fully integrated with a calendar feature on the MarketWatch tab. The calendar details scheduled earnings, conference calls, and economic events as well as anticipated dividend and split announcements.

Visualize

An overview of the thinkorswim Heat Map including how to use this functionality for a visual display of market sentiments.

Chart Studies

Learn the basics to adding studies, saving them, calling up chart study sets and finding detailed information for each. Go ahead; dip your toe in, we dare you…

Chart Styles

Change your chart style and adjust you axis; this tutorial gives an overview of the charting tools available on the thinkorswim platform.

Charts Tab

Try this tutorial and get a taste for the Charts tab. Here the focus is on the ability to utilize studies, styles, drawings, the window grid, and learn to save your settings for future use.

Custom Patterns

Using a new drag and drop interface, create your own custom candlestick patterns, copy the source code, and use it throughout the platform to create custom scans, alerts, and conditional orders.

Drawings

Learn to enhance your technical analysis through the Drawings menu...

Flexible Grid

The main idea behind the Flexible Grid sub-tab is to support either proportionate or disproportionate chart layout displays. Think of the Flexible Grid as a more customizable version of the thinkorswim Charts grid functionality, hence the term “flexible.”

Social Sentiment

thinkorswim® by TD Ameritrade has a new feature worth exploring. Social Sentiment keeps your finger on the pulse of social trends and provides insight into how some positions in your portfolio may be affected. For more details on other features from this release or features delivered in past releases, visit our thinkorswim learning center @ tlc.thinkorswim.com.

Super Gadgets

The Super Gadgets menu is effectively a convenient one-click functionality designed to utilize various ancillary tools to supplement your trading experience which include customizable trade buttons and Trade button placement, Time & Sales Data, Level II Quotes, Dashboard Layouts, and Live News Feeds.

CNBC

The CNBC tool is essentially a news capture device that allows you to access real-time CNBC television.Type in a symbol to view recorded segments previously broadcasted by the popular syndicated news channel.

Share Links in thinkorswim

Learn how to find your archived share links in thinkorswim.

Use the News

In “Use the News,” we make filtering a breeze with the “categories” function. We know that news is important to you as a trader so we try to deliver the most expansive news available as quickly as possible.

thinkScript Lounge

Chat with other scripters to trade tips and ideas in the thinkScript Lounge.

Portfolio Margin

Portfolio margining is a specific type of account margining that bases the account’s minimum requirements and available buying power upon the overall position risk in the account. Experienced traders may be eligible for portfolio margining.

thinkorswim New Features - Fall 2015

thinkorswim has a new look, including a sneak peek to some features. To enhance your trading experience, the reskin of the thinkorswim platform is focused on updating the aesthetics, allowing for a smooth transition into our best version yet. This is the makeover you deserve. You got this.

Closing a Single Option

Learn how to close an existing single option position in thinkorswim

Creating a Single Option Order

Learn how to create single option orders in thinkorswim.

Customizing the Option Chain

Discover ways to customize the option chain in thinkorswim.

Option Chain Basics

Learn the basics of the Option Chain in thinkorswim.

Single Option Order Entry

Learn how edit single option orders in thinkorswim.

Working Single Option Orders

Learn how to monitor and modify single option orders in thinkorswim.

Closing A Stock Position

Create closing orders for existing stock positions in thinkorswim.

Creating A Stock Order

Understand the basics of using the bid and ask prices to buy and sell stock in thinkorswim.

Stock Order Entry

Understand how to edit stock orders using the Order Entry Tools in thinkorswim.

Trade Tab Basics: Stock

Learn the basics of the thinkorswim Trade Tab when trading stock.

Working Stock Orders

Learn how to monitor and make changes to working stock orders in thinkorswim.

Active Trader Part 1 – Layout

Take a tour of the Active Trader gadget in thinkorswim.

Active Trader Part 2 – Customizing the Ladder

Learn the ways to customize the Active Trader Ladder in thinkorswim.

Active Trader Part 3 – Market Orders

Learn the steps for placing a market order using the Active Trader Gadget in thinkorswim.

Active Trader Part 4 – Limit and Stop Orders

Learn the steps for placing limit and stop orders using the Active Trader Gadget in thinkorswim.

Active Trader Part 5 – Creating First Triggers Orders

Learn the steps for placing first triggers orders using the Active Trader Gadget in thinkorswim.

Active Trader Part 6 – Creating OCO Orders

Learn the steps for placing first triggers OCO orders using the Active Trader Gadget in thinkorswim.

Editing Futures Orders

Learn how to edit orders for futures contracts in thinkorswim.

Futures Information

Learn the ways to access basic futures contract information in thinkorswim.

Futures Trader

Take a tour of the Futures Trader gadget in thinkorswim.

Trading Futures - Trade Tab Basics

Learn the basics of the thinkorswim Trade Tab when viewing futures contracts.

Trading Futures Using the Trade Tab

Learn how to buy and sell Futures contracts in thinkorswim from the Trade Tab

Change the Color Scheme on the thinkorswim Mobile App

Learn how to change the color scheme on the thinkorswim Mobile app.

Create Custom Spreads on thinkorswim Mobile

In this video we'll show you how to create a custom spread on the thinkorswim Mobile app.

Pattern Day Trade Rule

Support Chat Mobile

Access our award winning customer service right for your thinkorswim Mobile app!

iPhone - Chart Drawings

Creating and modifying drawings on charts

iPhone - Creating Advanced Orders

Learn how to create and edit advanced order types on mobile trader in the iPhone.

iPhone - Customizing Watchlists

Learn how to customize your watchlists on mobile trader for the iPhone.

iPhone - Customizing the Option Chain

Take a tour of the option chain on the iPhone and learn how to customize it based on your trading style.

iPhone - Customizing the Orders Section

Learn how to customize the orders section in mobile trader for your iPhone.

iPhone - Customizing the Positions Section

Learn how to customize the positions section in mobile trader for your iPhone.

iPhone - Login Screen

Become familiar with the login screen on the iPhone mobile trader app.

iPhone - Position Management

Learn how to manage your positions using mobile trader on the iPhone.

iPhone - Quote Details

Learn the basics of the quote details page in mobile trader on iPhone, and explore different areas of functionality.

iPhone - Settings and Customization

Explore the settings and customization options for mobile trader on the iPhone.

iPhone - Support Chat

Learn how to use the innovative Support Chat feature of mobile trader on your iPhone.

iPhone - Trading Futures

Learn how to trade futures contracts on mobile trader on the iPhone.

iPhone - Trading Option Spreads

Learn how to build option spreads using mobile trader on the iPhone.

iPhone - Trading Single Options

Learn how to create and edit orders for Single Options on Mobile Trader on the iPhone.

iPhone - Trading Stock

Learn how to queue up and edit a stock order in mobile trader on the iPhone

Analyze for Mobile - Android

Analyze for Mobile - Android

Android - Chart Drawings

Learn how to add, edit, and remove drawings on charts.

Android - Creating Advanced Orders

Learn how to create and edit advanced order types on mobile trader.

Android - Customizing Watchlists

Learn how to customize your watchlists on mobile trader.

Android - Customizing the Option Chain

Take a tour of the option chain and learn how to customize it based on your trading style.

Android - Customizing the Orders Section

Learn how to customize the orders section in mobile trader.

Android - Customizing the Positions Section

Learn how to customize the positions section in mobile trader.

Android - Login Screen

Become familiar with the login screen on the mobile trader app.

Android - Position Management

Learn how to manage your positions using mobile trader.

Android - Quote Details

Learn the basics of the quote details page in mobile trader, and explore different areas of functionality.

Android - Settings and Customization

Explore the settings and customization options for mobile trader.

Android - Support/Chat

Learn how to use the innovative Support Chat feature of mobile trader.

Android - Trading Futures

Learn how to trade futures contracts on mobile trader.

Android - Trading Option Spreads

Learn how to build option spreads using mobile trader.

Android - Trading Single Options

Learn how to create and edit orders for Single Options on Mobile Trader

Android - Trading Stock

Learn how to queue up and edit a stock order in mobile trader.

Analyze for Mobile - iPad

Analyze for Mobile - iPad

Chart Drawings iPad

Chart Drawings iPad