aldem

I can't login to my desktop app, but mobile works fine (iOS)

March 2020

Hello guys, looking for advice from fellow traders. I bought some AAPL calls before the stock rallied that are now deep in the money. With the market being where it is I am looking for ways to protect the unrealized gains. Of course I could always roll, but I don't want to realize the gains in 2019. I can't think of any setups to lock in the current profit but not hitting the books until 2020. Any suggestions or ideas?

check out the news on Charles Schwab eliminating all commissions starting October 7

I agree with both @Kim - too expensive, and @PGAmbrosio - really good. My negotiated rate with TOS is now $0.50/contract + $4.99 ticket charge - much better than standard but still too much. I currently have accounts with Tradier and Robinhood. Robinhood is free with a decent mobile app, but it doesn't allow to place multi-legged option trades. Tradier's biggest drawback is that it doesn't have any decent mobile apps at all, the web interface is very basic, but you can build multi-legged trades there. With the 10K account the $40 is probably the best deal, but if you trade less that official trades (e.g. you can't get fills), a $0.35/contract could be a better deal. While the TOS is great, I think for those of us who are new to trading more complex multi-legged setups, having to build the trade manually has some educational benefit...At the end of the day, you can keep both and use TOS for analysis and place trades in Tradier.

are you trading from their web interface? I opened a small account to test it out couple weeks ago with my main one still at TDA. From commissions perspective there is no comparison obviously. The decision is whether you want to pay for sophistication/features/mobile with TDA or not. I negotiated a better deal with TDA, but it still doesn't come close.