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Hello All,
First, I would like to thank you all for helping me to make an important judgement call. A few weeks ago I was on a winning Apple trade through TS and realized I had not placed a protective stop on the trade. I went in, added the stop, thinking it would only be triggered if the stock dropped back to the trigger point. I clicked submit and, guess what, the stop was triggered right away and it turned a winning trade into a loosing trade. I only lost about $5 but the point is, I lost on a winning trade due to difficulty getting the platform to do what I wanted it to do.
At that point I stopped using the account and started using my Charles Schwab account. Zero issues. Very happy.
Fast forward to last week. I thought maybe I should give TS another try. I went back to the tutorial videos, made notes and basically figured out how to do what I wanted to do in TS. I was about ready to start using TS again, but the issue of the trigger being inadvertently pulled on a winning trade was still a mystery. So, I came here. Low and behold, I find out people have had all sorts of issues with TS.
So then I think to myself, am I willing to stake thousands of dollars on this platform? No, I’m not. There are issues with orders not being executed in a timely fashion, there are issues with people making the wrong selections (because the platform isn’t intuitive at all) and on top of all that, it reminds me of the earliest operating systems from the 1980s.
So I decide I’m going to close the account. I call TS. They tell me there is a beta version which is more intuitive. I tell them that they know there are issues with ease of use and yet they have not addressed them. I also explained my issue with a stop being inappropriately triggered. I told them I assumed it was because the price had gone through the trigger point earlier in the session but I still wasn’t sure. They informed me that there is a setting which, in fact, does execute a stop if the price has passed through it earlier in the session.
Getting to the point... I consider myself maybe advanced beginner. I want to educate myself and have taken the time to do so. I work days so most of my trading is set up the night before. I want to spend my education time learning how to trade, not learning a platform that’s hard to use. So, to anyone out there trying to learn and struggling with TS, there are easier platforms to use with plenty of functionality. I’ve been very happy with Charles Schwab’s platform. I also just opened an TD Ameritrade Account and, at first glance, was also very impressed with the ThinkorSwim platform.
Thank you to the prior posters in this forum. You may have saved me from making a very serious mistake.
I too, closed my TS account after not using it for 5 months and seeing platform fees and data fees that amounted to $250 which I was promised not to see when I opened my account. Of course the sales person came up with a bunch of reasons why I was charged. These reasons were ridiculous as well.
I was offered a refund and to switch to a different "promo" but I declined. Once you lose trust it is gone.
I also use Thinkorswim and I find it very professionally done. I had no problems over the past 10 years using TOS
The following user says Thank You to Jemo for this post:
Well I now have a complaint as well, I just noticed tradestation never gave me $1000 in dividends from my American Airlines haha, I might be closing it down also
