"In the process of searching for a well-rounded broker, finding the right mix is no easy task.
Trade costs, trade platforms, tools, research, and customer service all are important to
investors. We are here to end that search and make stock broking less complex and very
profitable
"
Whether it be company profiling, advanced earnings analysis, plotting FRED data, charting social
sentiment, backtesting and replaying historical markets tick by tick, viewing economic and corporate
calendars, creating and conducting real-time stock scans, sharing charts and workspace layouts, or
performing advanced options analysis, the rabbit hole goes as far as any trader's imagination will
take them.
Focusing on two more recent innovations, adding Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) and the new
earnings analysis tool, investors can begin to appreciate the endless brain hub stationed at
thinkorswim’s Chicago office. Starting with FRED, a publicly accessible US Government database of
over 400,000 economic data points; think GDP, CPI, treasury rates, median household income, etc.
FRED data is used by institutional investors, hedge funds, and other sophisticated trading
operations. In its never-ending quest to level the playing field, the thinkorswim team decided to
download all the data, process it, build a custom interface to graph it, and brought it to all TD
Ameritrade clients