Trading
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How to Plan a Smart Trade
Find out why you should have a trade plan—and the five elements that may help you put it to work successfully.
Gamma Scalping
Gamma scalping—also called delta-neutral trading—is an options strategy designed to help traders navigate pricing volatility.
Are Earnings Estimates Useful?
Companies often beat their stock earnings estimates. What gives—and how are traders to respond?
Trading Bearish Patterns
Bearish trends can become a concern during a slower economy. Learn how to spot patterns and potentially profit from them.
Market updates
thinkorswim basics
Intro to thinkorswim® Desktop
Welcome to thinkorswim®. In this video we'll provide a high-level tour of the most commonly used features of the thinkorswim trading platform.
Set Up thinkorswim® for Stocks
In this tutorial, we'll demonstrate ways to set up the thinkorswim® desktop platform for stock trading.
Set Up thinkorswim® for Options
How to customize the thinkorswim® desktop platform especially for options—streamlining the option chain based on your trading style, setting up custom options screeners, and more.
thinkorswim® Web Overview
In this tutorial, we'll take a tour of the thinkorswim® web platform and show you how to get started.
thinkorswim® Android
Learn how to navigate and place trades on the thinkorswim® mobile app for Android.
Options trading for beginners
Risks of Options Assignment
Before entering an options trade, traders should consider the possibility of early assignment. Learn more about assignment and how to help reduce the risks associated with it.
Vertical Spreads Risk & Reward
When trading vertical options spreads, the maximum risk and profit potential are defined and relatively straightforward to calculate. Here's how to assess the risk parameters.
Gamma Explained
As stock options get closer to expiration, options prices can change quickly. Understanding options gamma could help traders better manage their stock options positions.
Credit vs. Debit Spreads
When deciding between trading credit spreads or debit spreads, it can be helpful to align the options strike prices and expirations with the level and direction of implied volatility.
Weekly Stock Options
Learn how weekly stock options can potentially help option traders target their exposure to market events, such as earnings releases or economic announcements.
A guide to futures and forex
7 Futures Trading Tips
Here are seven strategies to help you improve your futures trading knowledge.
Catching up on Commodities
Prices for corn, cattle, oil and other commodities will have an impact on your summer cookout and vacation plans. Here's the latest.
Investing Basics: Futures
Gain a better understanding of futures trading and learn about the risks and benefits of leverage.
Trading Futures vs. Stocks
Stocks and futures both trade on exchanges, but that's where the similarities end. Futures contracts expire on a set date and can be traded using much more leverage.
Trading with technical analysis
Trading Bearish Patterns
Bearish trends can become a concern during a slower economy. Learn how to spot patterns and potentially profit from them.
Technical Analysis
Looking to understand how to read stock charts? Start learning the basics of using charts, identifying trends, applying price patterns, and using charting indicators.
What's new in stock trading
Market Perspective: Upside-Down
Lately bad news has been good news for the stock market, as investors look to the Federal Reserve to begin cutting rates earlier than previously expected.
Mutual Funds
Mutual funds have been an investing staple for many investors because of the diversification they provide.
How DRIPs Work
A Dividend Reinvestment Plan, or DRIP, is the process of automatically reinvesting dividends into additional whole and fractional shares of a company's stock.
Costs of Self Money Management
There are costs—explicit and implicit—with managing a long-term investment portfolio yourself. Make sure you know what it takes in terms of time, interest, discipline, and expertise.
Technical Analysis
Looking to understand how to read stock charts? Start learning the basics of using charts, identifying trends, applying price patterns, and using charting indicators.
Expand your options trading
Gamma Scalping
Gamma scalping—also called delta-neutral trading—is an options strategy designed to help traders navigate pricing volatility.
Understanding Dividend Risk
When holding an in-the-money call option on a stock that's about to pay a dividend, be aware of dividend risks and how they can impact an investment.
Form 1099-B Reporting
Learn what cost basis is, where to find it on Form 1099-B, and what option traders might expect with their Form 1099-B.
Straddles vs. Strangles
Options straddles and strangles are a way for advanced traders to get exposure to volatility. Learn more about straddle and strangle options strategies.
Newest trading videos
Technical Analysis
Looking to understand how to read stock charts? Start learning the basics of using charts, identifying trends, applying price patterns, and using charting indicators.
Intro to thinkorswim® Part 1
Learn how to use your favorite features and functions of StreetSmart Edge® on the thinkorswim® platform.
Intro to thinkorswim® Part 2
This video will familiarize you with the thinkorswim® platform so you can take advantage of your favorite features and functions of StreetSmart Edge® when using thinkorswim.