InvesTools starts with stocks, teaching fundamentals and chart trends. The more advanced classes are aimed at options and some include mentoring sessions. You're right in one aspect, IT does seem to favor stocks over indexes by a large factor. Cru
I happened to listen to the ToS President's chat on the merger and he indicated the merger was due primarily to the better marketing ability of IEDU. He said that ToS would not be changing significantly. So at least that is the party line. Personally, I think the ToS guys have a lot of integrity and wouldn't do the deal if it would screw their clients. OTOH I can't imagine two more different cultures. It's also concerning to read above that some of the ToS partners/subs have a problem with it. Then again, I can see why IEDU would want to change option brokers since the previous one was Optionsxpress which is amazingly, horrendously bad and crude compared to ToS, IMO.