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5 Cool thinkorswim® Stock Charting Tools You'll Want to Learn October 6, 2022 10:27 AM   |  

There's more to charts than looking at price and volume. This guide teaches you how to use the thinkorswim® stock charting software with five cool tools.

5 min read  |  Charting
Iron Condor Strategies: A Way to Spread Your Options Trading Wings April 14, 2022 11:30 AM   |  

Vertical spreads are fairly versatile when taking a directional stance. But what if you're stuck in a range-bound market? Learn about iron condor strategies.

3 min read  |  Advanced Options Strategies
Risk Management: The Un-Fun, Must-Know Part of Trading January 10, 2022 10:15 AM   |  

Your risk-management strategy could decide whether you survive the next market turn. If you don’t have a trading plan in place, here are some ideas to help you get started.

5 min read  |  thinkMoney Magazine
Volume Profile Indicator: A Different Perspective on Support and Resistance Levels August 26, 2021 10:15 AM   |  

Learn how to use the Volume Profile indicator on the thinkorswim® platform to help identify potential support and resistance levels.

4 min read  |  thinkorswim Platform
Short-Term Trading in Slow Motion: The Swing Trade July 20, 2021 10:15 AM   |  

Want to try your hand at short-term trading? Consider swing trading: holding positions for a few days to try to capture a larger intermediate-term price swing.

4 min read  |  Trading Strategies
Plan Ahead: 3 thinkorswim® Tools for Probability Analysis February 23, 2021 10:30 AM   |  

You may not know what the market will do next. But you can identify probable outcomes with these three thinkorswim® probability analysis tools.

6 min read  |  thinkMoney Magazine
Lost at Sea? The Risk Profile Tool Can Be Your Message in a Bottle January 16, 2019 4:00 AM   |  

Options trading involves risk, but these risks can be analyzed, monitored, and simulated with the thinkorswim® Risk Profile tool.

4 min read  |  thinkorswim Platform
Reversion to the Mean: Taking Volatility to a New Level July 7, 2016 12:00 AM   |  

Implied volatility tends to be mean reverting. But what does that really mean? Learn how options traders can potentially benefit from monitoring implied volat

4 min read  |  Options Trading Basics

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