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Alerts | More about Alerts
Track your portfolio and watch lists, and watch the whole market or a specific stock or option price without hovering in front of your computer. Set up and receive customized alerts to your email, mobile phone and pager when conditions you specify are met, even up to six months later.

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Analytical Option Chains
Get nominal Greek calculations for an option to measure theoretical change in the option's value based on sensitivity to key risks (includes delta, gamma, theta, vega and rho). Also see strike price, bid, ask, theoretical value and implied volatility.

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Charts | More about Charts
Spot possible trends and potential trading opportunities with free, highly customizable charts. Get streaming intraday charting capability with up to 20 years of historical stock data and implied volatility data for options when you use Command Center 2.0. Set market conditions that will trigger an order or alert using a wide array of technical indicators such as MACD and RSI from within StrategyDesk. Monitor the markets with a host of technical indicators in Web charts available within Research & Ideas.

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Command Center 2.0 | More about Command Center 2.0
Trade, analyze markets and individual positions, and monitor your account all from this highly customizable streaming environment. Get streaming intraday charting capability with up to 20 years of historical stock data and implied volatility data for options when you use Command Center 2.0.

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Conditional Orders
Combine two or three individual orders that will, if filled, either cancel or trigger additional orders. Available for both stocks and single-legged option> orders (in options-approved accounts).

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Fundamentals
See fundamental data on any stock, including detailed balance sheets, income statements and cash flow information.

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Market Edge^®
Get a head start on the trading week with this weekly webcast produced in collaboration with third-party industry professionals. The webcast includes information on stocks that third-party market analysts consider worth watching, market analysis and tips for using the TD AMERITRADE online trading tools to help put your ideas to work.

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Market Huddle | More about Market Huddle
Get a head start on the trading week with this weekly webcast produced in collaboration with third-party industry professionals. The webcast includes information on stocks that third-party market analysts consider worth watching, market analysis and tips for using the TD AMERITRADE online trading tools to help put your ideas to work.

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Market Motion Detector | More about Market Motion Detector
Spot possible trends and identify fast-moving stocks that are rising or falling by watching stock price and volume changes along with rates of change. Set screening criteria, including price range, volume and stock exchange.

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Mobile
Access your TD AMERITRADE account via handheld devices, such as mobile phones or PDAs. The mobile device must be cookie-enabled and you must subscribe to a mobile service to send and receive data.

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Options 360 | More about Options 360
Identify potential trading opportunities by scanning options that meet your criteria or view our extensive volatility analysis section. Enter and execute multi-legged options strategies, then track, manage and align your portfolio.

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Options Exposure
Consolidate all your options by underlying security and see your option portfolio's sensitivity to time, price volatility and interest rates.

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Options Huddle | More about Options Huddle
Get a summary recap of the options market, analysis from third-party industry professionals who understand the ins and outs of market volatility, insight into trading ideas and strategies and instruction on how to use the options trading tools available in your account.>

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Pattern Matcher™ | More about Pattern Matcher
A pattern recognition tool that helps you find securities that match well-known technical chart patterns or the chart pattern of a particular symbol.

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QuoteScope™ | More about QuoteScope
Get real-time liquidity information via an innovative Level II display that uses expanding and contracting concentric bands to show changes in a stock's liquidity. Includes flexible, customizable order-entry features.

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S&P Reports
Get comprehensive, third-party research and recommendations on companies, industries, funds and bonds to help you make more informed investment decisions. Includes in-depth articles on current news to help you spot potential opportunities.

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Screeners | More about Screeners
Choose the criteria to help you select from thousands of potential investment choices.

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SnapTicket™ | More about SnapTicket
Located on the bottom of every page (once you log on to your account) to deliver real-time quotes and help you place orders. The "Detach" icon lets you use SnapTicket to receive a quote or submit a trade from wherever you are online.

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StrategyDesk™ | More about StrategyDesk
Create your own automated order entry and exit strategies that trigger your orders based on the market conditions you specify. Test your strategies against historical market data, track balances in each of your accounts, and use powerful screeners to scan the market for potential trading opportunities.

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Trade Triggers™ | More about Trade Triggers
Set the conditions for an alert or order in advance. When your conditions are met, you'll receive an email alert or your order will be submitted automatically, up to six months from when the trigger is set.

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Trailing Stops
Maximize and protect profits, limit losses and minimize risk. Enter orders with a stop parameter that creates a moving or "trailing" activation price.8 Available in SnapTicket™ and through Trade Ticket within Command Center 2.0.

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Two-Legged Option Chains
Retrieve information about the options that make up specific two-legged option> strategies and trade them more rapidly from the two-legged option chain (options-approved accounts only). A single click on a natural spread bid or offer takes you to a populated complex option trade ticket.

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Watch Lists | More about Watch Lists
Create a list of securities you want to track, and maintain a quick and convenient snapshot of their activity—with a fully customizable view.

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