thinkorswim Reviews

Thinkofswim is the most powerful trading platform I ever used, and it allows you to analyze trading, apply strategies, and trading in one place.

The desktop platform itself is significantly complex, requires a lot of patience to find the functions or applications you need.

I use it for my weekly or monthly trading activities, illustrates the risk profile of every trade that I make.

TOS is free and offers real-time trading and charting. It has various tools for charting and many many in-depth features for you to understand the chart setups and you can add personal tools to customize your stock charts. The best thing about tos is you can have hotkeys to trade stocks and execution timing is on point with no delay.

It’s a little bit complicated and you need to get use to it and understand how all those buttons do and customize your chart takes sometime

Charting is amazing! You can draw your lines add features and indicators to maximize your trading profitability.

The level of detail one can get on individual options is excellent. As a Quant, you need this platform

High fees compared to Tastyworks. Inability to trade all options on futures that are available (like for /SI)

Active trading of Equity and Futures options

I love that they take their mobile app as seriously as their desktop app. I have been using ToS for at least 9 years and have closed most of my other accounts in other platforms by now. Their desktop app is awesome, and I love the ability to arrange the windows in pieces. Their mobile (iOS) app on phone and iPad are intuitive and I can use my iPad as reliably as a desktop trading station. I love that there is an API to interface with so I can run my own bots.

There has not been much to dislike. Every time I think of something, it has been introduced in future versions.

Sign up for a free paper money account and do your own test trading.

It is my options trading platform of choice. I am also able to use their API for making bots

I love that when I;m ready to invest i get a cash bonus, i have several options to choose from and no account minimums.

I wish that there were more colors and the words were a bit larger. The page when logging in are too slow at times.

It's a great tool to get started. I highly recommend.

Since the company i work for is using the program I havent solved any problems yet. I will be sure to be on the lookout and hope to get a problem soon.

Being able to research trades, stocks, and potential investments. Being able to trade stocks and options. Customizing charts and theme of the software is a plus. Real-time updates and news.

The graphical interface could be updated but not a big issue as it's still very customizable and doesn't look bad.

Recommend this software for its research capabilities and one of the best trading platforms with regular updates.

Being able to research ideas and potential trades. Having charts and real-time stock prices in front of my eyes to make better decisions.

Live updates, news, and stock and option trading. Charts are also highly customizable. Updates in real-time and also available in mobile for iPhones and Androids.

Could use a new color theme but the current theme is still customizable with several colors available. Not much other downsides to note.

Highly recommended for any active trader or for investment research on stocks or ETF's, etc. Very user friendly and software is very customizable to your needs.

Ability to study and research before placing trades or new investments.

I like best the option of creating your own indicators for trading based off technical analysis.

I dislike that there are not preset time series plots.

It is easy to analyze a stock from a technical perspective and well as keep track of multiple things at the same time.

The tools available on the platform. Support team is also great.

Occasional lag. Experienced 3x times this year. Everything on this software is great.

There is a learning curve, but once you get used to it, it is amazing.

Great platform that allows us to trade options, as well as use to teach others about trading options (mentorship, education, etc)

The ease of use to put programs and analysis of stocks I am looking to invest in.

The learning curve to use the software is a bit of a hassle but once it's figured out it is an easy journey to learn about stocks.

Be sure to watch all the introduction videos and the tips listed throughout the interface. It will 100% benefit you and provide an easy start into using the software.

We've had difficulty training employees but as noted in the previous response it is easy once they've been able to fully figure it out.