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TD Ameritrade

Securities offered

• Stocks
• Mutual Funds
• Bonds & CDs
• Options

Pricing

Stocks and Exchange Traded Funds

• Internet: $9.99
• Telephone: $34.99
• Broker assisted: $44.99

Mutual Funds

• No-Transaction-Fee Funds: No commission
• No-Load Funds: $49.99
• Load Funds: No commission*

Options

• Internet: $9.99 + $0.75 per contract
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Telephone System: $34.99 + $0.75 per contract
• Broker-assisted: $44.99 + $0.75 per contract

Bonds & CDs

• Treasuries at auction: $25 flat fee
• Bond and CD trades on a net yield basis

Features

• unlimited shares
• flat rate commissions
• local branches
• real time charts
• real time quotes
• level 2 quotes
• otcbb/pink sheet trading

Tools

• Command Center 2.0 - Trade, analyze markets and individual positions, and monitor your account all from this highly customizable streaming environment. Get streaming intraday charting capability with up to 20 years of historical stock data and implied volatility data for options when you use Command Center 2.0.
• Advanced Analyzer - Identify stocks that may meet your specific criteria. Choose from over 100 pre-set screens or build your own. This desktop tool is easy to download and install, and it includes customizable charts and third-party research.
• Alerts - Track your portfolio and watch lists, and watch the whole market or a specific stock or option price without hovering in front of your computer. Set up and receive customized alerts to your email, mobile phone and pager when conditions you specify are met, even up to six months later.
• Analytical Option Chains - Get nominal Greek calculations for an option to measure theoretical change in the option's value based on sensitivity to key risks (includes delta, gamma, theta, vega and rho). Also see strike price, bid, ask, theoretical value and implied volatility.
• Charts - Spot possible trends and potential trading opportunities with free, highly customizable charts. Get streaming intraday charting capability with up to 20 years of historical stock data and implied volatility data for options when you use Command Center 2.0. Set market conditions that will trigger an order or alert using a wide array of technical indicators such as MACD and RSI from within StrategyDesk. Monitor the markets with a host of technical indicators in Web charts available within Research & Ideas.
• Conditional Orders - Combine two or three individual orders that will, if filled, either cancel or trigger additional orders. Available for both stocks and single-legged option> orders (in options-approved accounts).
• Fundamentals - See fundamental data on any stock, including detailed balance sheets, income statements and cash flow information.
• Market Edge® - Get a head start on the trading week with this weekly webcast produced in collaboration with third-party industry professionals. The webcast includes information on stocks that third-party market analysts consider worth watching, market analysis and tips for using the TD AMERITRADE online trading tools to help put your ideas to work.
• Market Huddle - Get a head start on the trading week with this weekly webcast produced in collaboration with third-party industry professionals. The webcast includes information on stocks that third-party market analysts consider worth watching, market analysis and tips for using the TD AMERITRADE online trading tools to help put your ideas to work.
• Market Motion Detector - Spot possible trends and identify fast-moving stocks that are rising or falling by watching stock price and volume changes along with rates of change. Set screening criteria, including price range, volume and stock exchange.
• Options 360 - Identify potential trading opportunities by scanning options that meet your criteria or view our extensive volatility analysis section. Enter and execute multi-legged options strategies, then track, manage and align your portfolio.
• Options Exposure - Consolidate all your options by underlying security and see your option portfolio's sensitivity to time, price volatility and interest rates.
• Options Huddle - Get a summary recap of the options market, analysis from third-party industry professionals who understand the ins and outs of market volatility, insight into trading ideas and strategies and instruction on how to use the options trading tools available in your account.
• Pattern Matcher™ - A pattern recognition tool that helps you find securities that match well-known technical chart patterns or the chart pattern of a particular symbol.
• QuoteScope™ - Get real-time liquidity information via an innovative Level II display that uses expanding and contracting concentric bands to show changes in a stock's liquidity. Includes flexible, customizable order-entry features.
• S&P Reports - Get comprehensive, third-party research and recommendations on companies, industries, funds and bonds to help you make more informed investment decisions. Includes in-depth articles on current news to help you spot potential opportunities.
• Screeners - Choose the criteria to help you select from thousands of potential investment choices. Screen stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs.
• SnapTicket™ - Located on the bottom of every page (once you log on to your account) to deliver real-time quotes and help you place orders. The "Detach" icon lets you use SnapTicket to receive a quote or submit a trade from wherever you are online.
• StrategyDesk™ - Test your strategies against historical market data, and program trades to enter automatically using technical signals or option> characteristics, such as implied volatility. Includes streaming option chains with powerful screening capability.
• Trade Triggers™ - Set the conditions for an alert or order in advance. When your conditions are met, you'll receive an email alert or your order will be submitted automatically, up to six months from when the trigger is set.
• Trailing Stops - Maximize and protect profits, limit losses and minimize risk. Enter orders with a stop parameter that creates a moving or "trailing" activation price.8 Available in SnapTicket™ and through Trade Ticket within Command Center 2.0.
• Two-Legged Option Chains - Retrieve information about the options that make up specific two-legged option strategies and trade them more rapidly from the two-legged option chain (options-approved accounts only). A single click on a natural spread bid or offer takes you to a populated complex option trade ticket.
• Watch Lists - Create a list of securities you want to track, and maintain a quick and convenient snapshot of their activity—with a fully customizable view.
• Wireless - Access your TD AMERITRADE account via handheld devices, such as mobile phones or PDAs. The wireless device must be cookie-enabled and you must subscribe to a wireless service to send and receive data.

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