Noah Katz

Good to know, thanks

The closest thing I see at the Tradier site is Dynamic Trend with Elliott Wave Turning Points; is that it?

great, thanks, Chad

@SBatch, Good to hear, thanks. Do you know if Tradier allows short strangles? Etrade doesn't let me do the short part.

Makes sense, thanks

@SBatch, Have you tried Tradier yet, and if so what do you think?

Very interesting, thanks!

SBatch, I emailed etrade about their options order routing and got this reply: "...Quarterly 606 Report"... will show you exactly where we route specific orders in order to give you the best available execution at the time of order entry. You may also utilize the following link to read more about order routing: https://content.etrade.com/etrade/powerpage/pdf/OrderRouting11AC6.pdf" Specifically, the report mentions on page 5 that "E*TRADE routes orders in exchange-listed options to broker-dealer intermediaries, which in turn use smart order routing technology to seek the best execution available in the market." So they say they smart-route, or does it all depend on who the broker-dealer intermediaries are?

Great, thanks very much, and for your other great postings as well. Looking forward to seeing how your Tradier trading goes.

Not sure what capacity means. I have a regular IRA, Roth IRA, and a cash account; are they each protected, or just in aggregate?

Good to know, thanks. Is that total assets, or per account?

So that's my problem. I decided to stay at eTrade after negotiating really low options fees at eTrade by telling them I would go to Tradier, but I bad fills; if I don't chase, my GTC orders often never get filled. Besides inertia, another factor that concerned me was the safety of my life's savings at a smaller less-established player vis-a-vis eTrade. Is there any reason to think I'd be worse off with my money at Tradier if the unthinkable happens (like sovereign debt bomb explodes and world financial system collapses)?

I'm really not trying to be snarky, but was just pointing out that we haven't seen it all in this country in our lifetimes. Also,in my mind hyperinflation is 100's or 1000's of %, not tens. That said, the chances of anything like what happened in the Weimar Republic or various 3rd-world countries is remote. Still, Ophir (whom I thank profusely for the very illuminating analyses) didn't address *sovereign* debt which some doomsayers point to. Perhaps someone can disabuse me of the notion that we and other large economies are on the same path as Greece. In the past we grew out of debt, but how can that happen with the declining (or headed that way) populations of the world's largest economies, who continue to amass even more debt? Oh, one more thing, re margin debt: I'm not grasping the relevance of margin debt as a % of a particular index; seems to me what's important is how many available $ (margined or otherwise) are left for people to bet on the bull.

Perhaps I'm succumbing to the exhortations of "the sky will fall" crowd, but what about the sovereign debt bomb finally exploding, i.e. precipitous loss of faith in fiat currency, financial market collapse, hyper-inflation, etc?

The biggest impediment to me was resistance to learning how they work, based mostly on the difficulty of grasping the horribly chosen terms "cInsert other media all" and "put".

Sort of; when Trump announced he's have a tax plan in a few weeks I figured the market was safe for a few weeks and bought a bunch of Mar17 $18 VXX puts

Good to hear, thanks, Kim.

Thanks for the responses, I see that many are in the same boat as me - if they're so good, why can't we find more people using them? I dug around and here's some more info which makes me feel better about them (I only want them for execution, don't need fancy tools for analysis as I'm using SO for that) https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/4kueu6/opinions_on_tradier/ Went through 10 pages of google hits and that's about it. As one article said, maybe they're not mentioned much because their use is through their API via various other platforms. The discussion here https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/tradier-brokerage.284178/ about where they send orders is a bit worrying, but I don't know if it applies to small fry like us, or whether the info is current

As far as I can tell no one is even close to Tradier, but when broker cost comes up they're never mentioned, except apparently by me. Is there some secret about them that I'm not privy to? I've made similar posts in various threads, hoping for some feedback since I'm considering moving to Tradier, but all I get is silence...

Tradier can. Even leaving aside the $40/mo flat rate deal for members here, their everyday rate is no ticket fee and .35/contract. Not sure if the additional fees of .04 (ORF) buy/.05 (ORF + TAF) sell apply here or only with the $40 deal, but even if they do it's just .79/contract round trip.

I I talked to Tradier today and was quoted those same amounts. That's in addition to the $40/mo per account. An amazing deal.

They do show the cost basis; I asked them about it and was sent a screenshot, and also one for a multi-legged option ticket.

Is there some reason more people aren't taking advantage of the $40/mo Tradier offer? I'm getting better rates than IB and I spent hundred$ in my first week w/SO.

That's pretty lame; I've never seen anywhere where a portfolio listing doesn't include that basic information. Re ONE, didn't you say in the other thread that you have to manually keep Tradier and ONE prices in sync? That's an unacceptable PITA to me. I don't need any fancy analysis tools, as I'm going to stick to SO's posted trades for the forseeable future; do you know if any of the other platforms that Tradier offers will allow convenient monitoring of positions? Thanks

I called them and asked about this; the offer is also valid for IRA's