thinkorswim: Trade. Invest.

I usually don't give app reviews, but I love this app so much, I'm making an exception! I use this app more than the TOS software on my computer. The app enables me to check my positions and make trades anywhere. I check it several times a day...more than I check Facebook. It has become my "go to" for checking the market, looking at my positions, and making trades. I make options trades while waiting in my car, and even while grocery shopping, etc. It is immediate, relevant, and allows me to keep track of my positions on the go. There are a few glitches that I've found (like OTM% on options changing to all zeros every once in a while), but the glitches are so minor compared to how glad I am that this app exists. It works very well as a whole, and I recommend it to anyone.

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I was told thinkorswim would be a better interface than the TD Mobile Trader app, but they are essentially the same. The “positions” tab doesn’t clearly tell you your basis in a position, or its current market price, and doesn’t have a quick trade button to allow you to close that position right there. (At least this is the case for options.) I end up going to the underlying stock quote and looking at its options chain to see the bid/ask for my contract (and I trade it from there if I want to close). The “positions” tab does tell you p/L for the day, based on the last trade, but not based on the current bid/ask which is what I really want to know. Also for stock quotes, there isn’t a good “fundamentals” snapshot where you can see some basic metrics about the stock like P/E, mcap, FP/E, P/B, short interest, profile, etc like Yahoo Finance or Google Finance would give you. I end up looking up the stock elsewhere then coming back to the app to trade— it’s not remotely capable of research. App is secure and functional, however, and I haven’t had any problems with my trading.

I am an exceptionally, uneducated, 70 something that spent my adult life driving trucks across this great land of ours. After I retired, I decided to try my hand at a little day-trading. Did I say ignorant? Maybe ‘dumb’ better describes me. Anyway, after that colossal disaster, I downloaded THINKORSWIM ...that’s when things got worse. I couldn’t figure out what I was looking at or how to do anything. But, guess what, THINKORSWIM has many, many ways of learning the platform. And, I learned. Here’s my point; if I can learn this absolutely, terrifically designed, user friendly platform, and be profitable ...so can you. By the way, the support level is more than you’ll ever need to master it. Whether you trade stocks, options, futures, Forex, etc, this platform will do it all ...and quite well, may the add.

Seems to be a pretty good app that gives you access to the think or swim platform and it can be surprising how powerful it is. That said, check your calendar people, it 2018. We were suppose to have flying cars by now (in our driveways). Alas this app and its big brother on my Mac seem to need an update every time I launch them. So if you get a trade idea you want to move on when things get active, I hope you’re already logged in. Otherwise, the minutes are passing while the trade escapes you. Hey Developers: How about offering the update when we log out instead of killing the moment with yet another stoopid update. OR at least give us the choice to defer update till after completing initial objective. OR think of something even better. I can’t believe you’re still doing it this way. Check your calendar.

Can you please let me edit my background color and my candle colors. These red and green candles are terrible and I hate both the white and black backgrounds. Also please can you add a feature so I can add space to the right of my chart. When I try to take a snapshot I cannot see any of my future plans bc it cuts the screen off. Also when you open up a spread trade it's really clunky to try and close and also i would like to have the option to close multiple orders at the same time. Please. Thankyou and other than these nitpicking little details TOS is an awesome platform and I truly love them. Oh another thing. I would love if you guys would add harmonic drawing tools on the desktop and mobile for different patterns, like bat and crab and all those. Please please pleas. Like trading view does. Oh and another thing. It would be really awesome if there was a feature that would alert me anytime the price of a stock moved a certain increment. Like say if o trade SPY I can set it to alert me every time the price moves $.50 up or down without me having to physically set the alert. It just does it automatically. This would be really cool. Thanks guys and gals and keep up the good work.