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A powerful platform customized to you

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A powerful platform customized to you

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With thinkorswim Desktop® you get access to elite-level trading tools and a platform backed by insights, education, and a dedicated trade desk. Experience the unparalleled power of a fully customizable trading experience, designed to help you nail even the most complex strategies and techniques.

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Take a test drive with paperMoney®

Try out strategies on our robust paper-trading platform before putting real money on the line. Sign up for a paperMoney account funded with $100,000 of virtual money you can use to practice trading risk-free.**
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Ready to get started? Once you have an account, download thinkorswim and start trading.


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$0 commissions on online stock,
ETF, and options trades

U.S. exchange-listed stocks, ETFs, and options. $0.65 per option contract

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The market never rests. Why should we?

In a competitive market, you need constant innovation. Explore our pioneering features.
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24/5 Trading

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Trade when the news breaks

Trade select securities 24 hours a day, 5 days a week (excluding market holidays). 24/5 Trading allows you to trade on your schedule, and with an expanded list of securities that covers more international markets and sectors like tech, take advantage of even more potential market opportunities.

Economic Data

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Welcome to your macro data hub

Access a wide variety of data about the health of the US and global economies, straight from the Fed, with the new Economic Data tool. Tap into over 400,000 economic data points spanning six continents, find key economic indicators fast with the platform’s search engine, and chart data points over time to measure economic performance.

Device Sync

Device Sync

Sync your platform on any device

Stay in lockstep with the market across all your devices. With thinkorswim, you can sync your alerts, trades, charts, and more. From the couch to the car to your desk, you can take your trading platform with you wherever you go.

In-App Chat

In-App Chat

Help is always within reach

Get personalized help the moment you need it with in-app chat. Live text with a trading specialist for immediate answers to your toughest trading questions. You can even share your screen for help navigating the app.

Custom Alerts

Custom Alerts

When the market calls... answer it

Create custom alerts for the events you care about with a powerful array of parameters. Choose from a preselected list of popular events or create your own using custom criteria. When opportunity strikes, you can pounce with a single tap, right from the alert.

Chat Rooms

Tap into Trading Tools

Tap into our trading community

Trading doesn’t have to be an individual sport. Tap into the knowledge of other traders in the thinkorswim chat rooms. Share strategies, ideas, and even actual trades with market professionals and thousands of other traders.†

Social Sentiment

Gauge social sentiment

Gauge social sentiment

Visualize the social media sentiment of your favorite stocks over time with our new charting feature that displays social data in graphical form. It’s yet another tool you can use when evaluating a stock to make an informed trading decision.†

Trader made. Trader tested. Trader approved.

Analyze, strategize, and trade with advanced features from our pro-level trading platform, thinkorswim.

Advanced trading

Trade equities, options, ETFs, futures, forex, options on futures, and more. Set rules to automatically trigger orders that can help you manage risk, including OCOs and brackets. You may be eligible to use options and futures in an IRA; you may also be eligible for Portfolio Margin***, which could make more trading leverage available in your brokerage account.

Technical analysis

Access 400+ technical studies ranging from support and resistance to candlestick and profile. Add visuals to your charts using your choice of 20 drawings, including eight Fibonacci tools. Even build your own algorithms with thinkScript®.

Options Statistics

Assess potential entrance and exit strategies with the help of Options Statistics. See the current day’s option volume and compare it to the past five-day average with the Sizzle Index™. View implied and historical volatility of underlying securities and get a feel for the market, with a breakdown of the options traded above or below the bid or ask price or between the market.

Company Profile

Examine company revenue drivers with Company Profile—an interactive, third-party research tool integrated into thinkorswim. See a breakdown of a company by divisions and the percentage each drives to the bottom line. Make hypothetical adjustments to the key revenue drivers for each division based on what you think may happen, and see how those changes could impact projected company revenue.

Follow JJ on Twitter

Market chatter in 140 characters or less

Follow JJ Kinahan on Twitter for valuable market insights, information on the latest thinkorswim tools, and upcoming events and media appearances.

Full transparency. Full access. Smarter value.

We offer $0.00 commissions on online exchange-listed U.S. stock, domestic and Canadian ETFs, and options trades. Access to our platforms is free, with no account or trade minimums. We give you access to over 2,300 commission-free ETFs** and free level 2 data. And we deliver added value with our execution quality, with 98% of executed market orders receiving a better price than the National Best Bid and Offer (NBBO) at the time of routing.1

Even more reasons to love thinkorswim.

Live-Streaming Mediavideos

Stay on top of market movement with newsfeeds from CNBC and our media affiliate, TD Ameritrade Network.


TD Ameritrade Network is brought to you by TD Ameritrade Media Productions Company. TD Ameritrade Media Productions Company and TD Ameritrade, Inc.,are separate but affiliated subsidiaries of TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation. 

Strategy Rollermoney

Create a covered call strategy up front using predefined criteria, and our platform will automatically roll it forward month by month. Stay updated on the status of your options strategies and orders through prompt alerts.††

Market Maker MoveTM (MMM)trading charts

MMM is a measure of the expected magnitude of price movement and can help clue you in on stocks with the potential for bigger moves (up or down) based on market volatility.†††

Stock Hackertrading graphs

Screen for stocks meeting your criteria, and easily filter out the ones that don’t using fundamental, technical, and option-related data — almost any attribute that’s important to you.

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An affiliate advisory newsletter service that lets you shadow experienced former Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE) floor traders to get recommendations for opening, adjusting, and closing option trades.

Market Monitortrading tools

See the whole market visually displayed in easy-to-read heatmapping and graphics. View your portfolio or a watch list in real time, then dive deep into forex rates, industry conference calls, and earnings.


School yourself in trading

Practice accounts, demos, user manuals and more — learn however you like.

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Education

When it comes to taking on the market, a trader’s best asset is know-how. That’s why thinkorswim offers in-platform webcasts, a schedule of in-person events, and immersive courses like: Trading Options and Stocks: Technical Analysis.
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The Learning Center

Get tutorials and how-tos on everything thinkorswim. Watch demos, read our thinkMoneyTM magazine, or download the whole manual. Find everything you need to get comfortable with our trading platform.

A thinkorswim platform for anywhere—or way— you trade

Opportunities wait for no trader. Take action wherever and however your trading style demands using our entire suite of thinkorswim platforms: desktop, web, and mobile.

Conveniently access essential tools with thinkorswim Web

With a streamlined interface, thinkorswim Web allows you to access your account anywhere with an internet connection and trade equities and derivatives in just a click.

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thinkorswim Mobile: strike whenever the moment is right

Stay in lockstep with the market with desktop alerts, trades, and charts synced and optimized for your phone on the award-winning thinkorswim Mobile app.

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Real help from real traders.

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Market volatility, volume and system availability may delay account access and trade executions.

No Margin for 30 Days. Certain ETFs purchased commission free that are available on the TD Ameritrade ETF Market Center will not be immediately marginable at TD Ameritrade through the first 30 days from settlement. For the purposes of calculation the day of settlement is considered Day 1.

Short-Term Trading Fee (Holding Period for 30 Days). ETFs available commission-free that participate in the ETF Market Center may be subject to a holding period that commences with any purchase and extends through the following THIRTY (30) calendar days. An account owner must hold all shares of an ETF position purchased for a minimum of THIRTY (30) calendar days without selling to avoid a short–term trading fee where applicable. There is no limit to the number of purchases that can be effected in the holding period. Any order to sell within THIRTY (30) calendar days of last purchase (LIFO – Last In, First Out) will cause an account owner's account to be assessed a short–term trading fee of $13.90, where applicable. For the purposes of calculation, the day of purchase is considered Day 0. Day 1 begins the day after the date of purchase. The short–term trading fee may be applicable to each purchase of each ETF where such ETF is sold during the holding period. The short–term trading fee may be more than applicable standard commissions on purchases and sells of ETFs that are not commission-free.

Taxes related to TD Ameritrade offers are your responsibility. All Promotional items and cash received during the calendar year will be included on your consolidated Form 1099. Please consult a legal or tax advisor for the most recent changes to the U.S. tax code and for rollover eligibility rules.

198% price improvement covers market orders executed between April and June 2019 in exchange-listed stocks 1-1,999 shares in size. Statistics provided by S3 Matching Technologies, which is not affiliated with TD Ameritrade. Comparisons based on publicly available information, including published rates of Charles Schwab, Fidelity and E*TRADE.

Price improvement is not guaranteed. Price improvement percentage is calculated by dividing executed market orders receiving price(s) better than the National Best Bid and Offer (NBBO) at the time of order routing by the total number of orders executed. Price improvement savings is the difference between the order execution price and the NBBO at the time of order routing, multiplied by executed shares.

FRED® is a registered trademark of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The Economic Data tab uses the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED® API and data ©Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. 2016. All rights reserved. By using the FRED® data, you are agreeing to be bound by the FRED® API Terms of Use, available at research.stlouisfed.org/fred_terms.html.

†TD Ameritrade does NOT make any recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security via a social media post or chat. And we encourage you to thoroughly research any "recommendation" you might view in a third-party post or chat.

**The paperMoney software application is for educational purposes only. Successful virtual trading during one time period does not guarantee successful investing of actual funds during a later time period as market conditions change continuously.

***Portfolio Margin will only be approved for accounts of qualified traders who can support the risks associated with greater leverage ability.

***Use of Portfolio Margin involves unique and significant risks, including increased leverage, which increases the amount of potential loss, and shortened and stricter time frames for meeting deficiencies, which increase the risk of involuntary liquidation. Client, account, and position eligibility requirements exist and approval is not guaranteed. Carefully read the Portfolio Margin Risk Disclosure Statement, Margin Handbook, and Margin Disclosure Document for more details.

Third-party research and tools are obtained from companies not affiliated with TD Ameritrade, and are provided for informational purposes only. While the information is deemed reliable, TD Ameritrade does not guarantee its accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose, and makes no warranties with respect to the results to be obtained from its use. Please consult other sources of information and consider your individual financial positions and goals before making an independent investment decision.

Backtesting is the evaluation of a particular trading strategy using historical data. Results presented are hypothetical, they did not actually occur and they may not take into consideration all transaction fees or taxes you would incur in an actual transaction. And just as past performance of a security does not guarantee future results, past performance of a strategy does not guarantee the strategy will be successful in the future. Results could vary significantly, and losses could result.

Options are not suitable for all investors as the special risks inherent to options trading may expose investors to potentially rapid and substantial losses. Options trading privileges subject to TD Ameritrade review and approval. Not all account owners will qualify. Please read Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options before investing in options before investing in options.

Spreads and other multiple-leg option strategies can entail substantial transaction costs, including multiple commissions, which may impact any potential return.

Futures and futures options trading is speculative, and is not suitable for all investors. Please read the Risk Disclosure for Futures and Options prior to trading futures products.

The risk of loss in trading forex can be substantial. Clients must consider all relevant risk factors, including their own personal financial situation, before trading. Trading foreign exchange on margin carries a high level of risk, as well as its own unique risk factors. Forex investments are subject to counter-party risk, as there is no central clearing organization for these transactions. Please read the following risk disclosure before considering the trading of this product: Forex Risk Disclosure

The #1 trading app accolade applies to thinkorswim mobile―also known as TD Ameritrade Mobile Trader. Mobile leadership claim based on analysis of publicly available competitor data concerning number of mobile users and daily average revenue trade levels.

††Rolling strategies can entail substantial transaction costs, including multiple commissions, which may impact any potential return.  You are responsible for all orders entered in your self-directed account.

TradeWise and TD Ameritrade, Inc. are separate but affiliated firms. Advisory services are provided exclusively by TradeWise and brokerage services are provided exclusively by TD Ameritrade, Inc

†††Probability analysis results from the Market Maker Move indicator are theoretical in nature, not guaranteed, and do not reflect any degree of certainty of an event occurring.

A covered call strategy can limit the upside potential of the underlying stock position, as the stock would likely be called away in the event of substantial stock price increase.  Additionally, any downside protection provided to the related stock position is limited to the premium received. (Short options can be assigned at any time up to expiration regardless of the in-the-money amount.)

Company Profile (Trefis) information/estimates provided by Insight Guru, a separate and unaffiliated firm. Stock prices are impacted by numerous factors and estimates of prices in the future are not guaranteed.

Past performance of a security or strategy does not guarantee that the security or strategy will be successful in the future.

This is not an offer or solicitation in any jurisdiction where we are not authorized to do business or where such offer or solicitation would be contrary to the local laws and regulations of that jurisdiction, including, but not limited to persons residing in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, UK, and the countries of the European Union.

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