http://easycators.com — More of Josiah’s TOS trading resources New thinkorswim tutorial on how to program your own stock, futures, or forex trading strategy and then backtest it using thinkorswim. The thinkorswim platform by TD Ameritrade provides some great scripting capabilities for indicators, custom quote columns, scans, and even full forex trading strategies. In this video, Josiah creates a simple think or swim strategy that can be applied to forex, futures, or stocks, and shows you step-by-step how to start from scratch and implement your own algorithmic trading strategy in thinkorswim. This thinkorswim tutorial is applicable to forex trading strategies as well as stocks, ETFs, and futures trading systems. In this tutorial video, Josiah starts with a blank slate and adds inputs, variables, explains buy conditions, how to reference studies and indicators, and how to setup and use orders in TOS. To find out more about how to maximize your ThinkOrSwim platform, check out my website at http://easycators.com
Download ThinkOrSwim Paper Money and signup to demo trade with the professional trader tools from TD Ameritrade. Paper trading is available for free for 60 days for those without a funded TOS account, and is included for free with any funded account.
Think Or Swim Paper Money includes all kinds of free indicators already installed and ready to use. You can also download and install premium indicators from SWIMdicators if you need some additional trading tools.
ThinkOrSwim’s paperMoney demo trading platform includes almost all the same features as the main “real money” trading platform. The main difference is that in Paper Money the market data is delayed by about 20 minutes. So the latest bars on your chart will be older bars — they won’t be the real time current market data.
Other than that, though, the platform is great, and it allows you to test almost any product, instrument, strategy, indicator, etc., just like in the real money program.
Once you’ve perfected your strategy over a series of sample trades, now it’s time to logout of think-or-swim, switch over to “live trading,” and make some REAL money!
ThinkOrSwim login tutorial featuring information on how to use the log in screen for the ThinkOrSwim platform by TD Ameritrade. Find out more about ThinkOrSwim with the unofficial guide:
ThinkOrSwim is a professional multi-market trading platform from TD Ameritrade.
To login to thinkorswim, download the software from https://easycators.com/download
After running the installer, launch the platform. A window will appear that says “Checking for updates…” After it makes sure there are no updates to install, the log in screen will appear with a field for username and password.
There is a settings icon in the lower left that you can click to adjust the look and feel of the platform, from light themes to dark themes. You can also adjust the system’s font size to make it easier to read.
The settings screen also shows you login options such as how much memory to devote to the platform, and whether or not to connect through a proxy server.
After you save your settings, you’ll be back out on the log in screen. There is also a “?” icon that, if clicked, shows the 800 number to call for technical support for the platform. If you forget your used ID, you can call this number, or visit https://easycators.com/loginhelp to contact TD Ameritrade.
If you forget your password, you can visit that same page to reset it and have a new password emailed to you.
Once you know your username and password, you can click the lock icon in the user ID field to save it so you don’t have to type it in every single time you launch the TOS platform.
After you do that, type in your password and hit enter, and the platform will launch.
Once the platform is done opening, a “Home Screen” may appear. By default the platform shows the home screen every time you open it, but if you want to turn off the home screen popup, here’s how:
Click the gear icon / Setup menu at the top right of the platform screen. Select Application Settings from the menu that appears. Then select Startup on the left side of the popup window. Uncheck the selection that tells it to show the home screen on every start up, and click OK.
That’s it! You’ve logged in to the thinkorswim platform!
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Josiah is a stock & futures trader, ThinkScript programmer, Bitcoin maximalist, gold bug, real estate investor, and budding mountaineer. He's also rumored to be an in-shower opera singer. Josiah started Easycators in 2014 and lives with his family near Nashville, TN. xTwitter | YouTube
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