Monk's Den

[Ninja7]

Thought I'd chime in here as I've been using ToS for my paper trading of the F's (it's got a cool paper money mode).

I think the active trader ladder is a very cool trading interface. Once you get it set up, you can enter market sell and buy orders with a single click, you can also enter stop and limit orders with a single click. The other cool thing about the active trader ladder is that it shows trade volume for all the price levels as well as effectively L2 in one display in which you can also do the single click order entry.

The best way to learn it is to go to the help tab in ToS and click on the "Use the Active Trader Ladder" link under Walkthroughs & Demos.

My only gripe with TDA for the F's is the commission schedule ($9.99). However, I know they'll negotiate that as they offered me $5 commissions for life if I transfered in $150K to my account. Unfortunately, I didn't have the $150K.