Trading
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What's new
Buying Stocks for Beginners
From square one to your first trade: This video will teach you what a stock is, what to consider when trading, and how to actually place the trade on schwab.com.
Your Guide to Penny Stocks
Learn about the risks of penny stocks and speculative stock investments and how this market works.
Pattern Day Trading Rule
Watch to learn about the pattern day trading rule, what constitutes a day trade, and how to comply with the rule.
What Stock Volume Means
Volume tells how many shares are publicly traded on a particular day. It can also confirm the trend and buy signal, warn of potential trend changes, and help track the smart money.
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.
Options trading for beginners
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.
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.
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.
Vertical Options Spreads
Learn about vertical credit and debit spreads, why they're used, and how option traders can potentially incorporate them in their trades.
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
What Stock Volume Means
Volume tells how many shares are publicly traded on a particular day. It can also confirm the trend and buy signal, warn of potential trend changes, and help track the smart money.
Avoiding Tech Analysis Issues
Learn to avoid the three pitfalls of technical analysis and analyzing price patterns: impatience, inflexibility, and tunnel vision.
Drawing Charts on thinkorswim®
Learn how to add drawings in charts, draw trendlines, price levels, and Fibonacci retracements to help you identify trend as well as support and resistance.
What's new in stock trading
Buying Stocks for Beginners
From square one to your first trade: This video will teach you what a stock is, what to consider when trading, and how to actually place the trade on schwab.com.
Q4 Outlook: A Delicate Balance
The Federal Reserve weighs the data while investors wonder: Is the rate-hike cycle over?
Will Rising Debt Slow Growth?
Over the past 70 years, rising government debt generally has been accompanied by weaker economic activity. But it's not a simple relationship.
Investing Basics: Stocks
Stocks are one of the most common investments. Learn what stocks are, the risks associated with them, and the role they can play in an investment portfolio.
Pattern Day Trading Rule
Watch to learn about the pattern day trading rule, what constitutes a day trade, and how to comply with the rule.
Market Perspective: Tension
Competing narratives have emerged to describe the state of the U.S. economy.
Expand your options trading
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.
Broken Wing Butterfly
Learn how to turn a long butterfly spread—typically initiated with a debit—into a credit spread by adjusting one of the wings, aka a "broken wing butterfly."
Strangles vs. Iron Condors
If volatility levels out after a spike and is expected to fall, this can potentially present opportunities to use selling strategies like strangles and iron condors.
Newest trading videos
Buying Stocks for Beginners
From square one to your first trade: This video will teach you what a stock is, what to consider when trading, and how to actually place the trade on schwab.com.
Your Guide to Penny Stocks
Learn about the risks of penny stocks and speculative stock investments and how this market works.
Pattern Day Trading Rule
Watch to learn about the pattern day trading rule, what constitutes a day trade, and how to comply with the rule.