I'm thinking of switching to Ameritrade for the free trades. I'd like to see a few screenshots of their platform, however (charts, order entry, T&S, etc). I just want to see how different it is from my current platform. Thanks if anybody can oblige!
I believe you can register for free demo/paper account here: https://platform.thinkorswim.com/platform/index.html#!/pmregister Then download their free software to use with the paper account: https://mediaserver.thinkorswim.com/installer/install.html And/or scan through related YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ThinkOrSwim
I'd go with the company with the funnier commercials. I did that with my insurance company, e-surance, and am glad I did. It means the higher-ups understand us little people. Or something.
After opening and funding an account, then getting all of the approvals to trade any market I want, one of their brokers scheduled a one on one seminar with a staff member to cover every aspect about the TOS platform and answer any questions that I had. And of course now I can contact that individual at any time in the future if I have any issues or questions that may not have been discussed in the seminar. Have to respect that!