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The calendar spread strategy can be effective during sideways markets and periods of low volatility. Learn how to set up and roll a calendar as well as the benefits and risks of this options strategy.
Learn how the Risk Profile tool in the thinkorswim platform can help options traders visualize different scenarios and make trading decisions a little simpler.
Options straddles and strangles are a way for advanced traders to get long or short exposure to volatility (vega), but the volatility needs to be weighted against time decay (theta). Here are the basics.
When you’re looking for critical information about your trading accounts, account positions, and how your positions are doing, you want to have the key data points at your fingertips. The Monitor tab on thinkorswim® allows you to access this information.
When trading options you will need to consider price, time, and volatility at the same time. That means understanding the interplay of a few options greeks and how they play off one another.
Traders are becoming more dependent on their mobile devices to chart, analyze, and place trades. TD Ameritrade is adding more features to thinkorswim Mobile to bring traders the functionality of thinkorswim desktop.
Margin trading has been around forever. But qualified traders, there’s another category—portfolio margin—that could take your leverage to new heights.
Learn how futures contracts can help experienced traders and investors manage portfolio risk with a beta-weighted hedging strategy.
Options trading involves risk, but these risks can be analyzed, monitored, and simulated with the thinkorswim® Risk Profile tool.
Learn how futures contracts can help experienced traders and investors pursue their objectives while tying up less capital.
Looking for opportunities amid a low volatility trading environment? Learn about calendar spreads.
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