Trading Tools

Trade your way using advanced trading tools

Trading tools help you put your plan into action. TD AMERITRADE delivers innovative, powerful trading tools to help you spot potential market opportunities and implement your unique trading strategy. At TD AMERITRADE, you can monitor the market and easily manage information to make informed trading decisions.

TD AMERITRADE uses some of the most advanced trading technology available to help you pursue your financial goals. Take a look at our trading tools that you can only find in your TD AMERITRADE account.

See the complete list of online trading and investing tools.

Featured Tools

thinkorswim from TD AMERITRADE
Welcome to the online trading revolution. Access professional-level tools for serious traders with thinkorswim from TD AMERITRADE. Get streaming real-time data, customizable charts, and integrated one-click trading. Make advanced options plays, test out strategies with paperMoney®, and find new ideas with myTRADE‡ all in the trading platform built with the trading technology ranked #1 by Barron's.
More about the thinkorswim from TD AMERITRADE trading platform.
Command Center 2.0
Use this powerful platform every time you trade or invest. Research stock and options trading opportunities quickly and easily, then enter orders and view their status through order activity messages or an Open Orders Watch List.
Use Command Center 2.0 to trade online.
Pattern Matcher™
A pattern recognition tool that can help you find securities that match well-known technical charting patterns or securities that highly correlate to the charting pattern of a particular symbol.
Stock analysis with Pattern Matcher.
QuoteScope™
Get real-time liquidity information via an innovative Level II display that uses expanding and contracting concentric bands to show changes in a stock's liquidity. Includes flexible, customizable order-entry features.
Get stock market information with QuoteScope.
StrategyDesk™
Test your trading ideas with StrategyDesk. This powerful trading tool helps you create, test and execute your trading strategies.
Execute your stock trading strategy with StrategyDesk.
Market Motion Detector
Identify possible short-term trends by watching a combined view of stock price changes and volume increases.
Track stock prices with Market Motion Detector.
Partner Tools
We give you the flexibility of entering trades through various third-party trading applications that are connected to TD AMERITRADE Application Program Interfaces (API). Choose your tools for trade with our premier partner tools.
Partner stock trading tools.
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Market volatility, volume and system availability may delay account access and trade executions.

thinkorswim, prior to joining TD AMERITRADE, earned 4.9 stars, the top score, in the category "Trading Technology", and was rated #1 overall online broker in Barron's ranking of online brokers, 3/15/2010. thinkorswim was evaluated versus others in eight total categories, including trade experience, trading technology, usability, range of offerings, research amenities, portfolio analysis and reporting, customer service and education and costs. thinkorswim topped the list in 2006, 2007, 2009, and 2010 with the highest weighted-average score. Barron's is a registered trademark of Dow Jones & Company © 2006-2010.

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Options involve risk and are not suitable for everyone as the special risks inherent to options trading may expose investors to potentially rapid and substantial losses. Prior to engaging in trades involving options, you should carefully read Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options. Option trading privileges in your account subject to TD AMERITRADE review and approval. Not all account owners will qualify.

Past performance of a security does not guarantee future results or success. TD AMERITRADE does not make recommendations or determine the suitability of any security, strategy or course of action, for you, through the use of Pattern Matcher. Your account is self-directed and any investment decision you make is solely your responsibility. Please consult other sources of information and consider your individual financial position and goals before making an independent investment decision.

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