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Whether you're new to trading or have moved on to advanced strategies, there's always room for growth. Our robust educational offering is designed to help you uncover new potential opportunities, avoid pitfalls, and grow your trading prowess.

Use technical analysis to your advantage

Analyze charts to help you identify potential trends, recognize price movements, and craft entry and exit strategies with our technical analysis tools.

Investing Basics: Technical Analysis

Video | Wondering how to decide when to buy or sell a stock? Don't just guess—technical analysis may offer some guidance.
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Mapping Your Exit and Entry Points

Article | Learn to find signals in chart patterns to help recognize potential buy and sell points.
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Use Moving Averages for Stock Trading

Video | Learn about simple moving averages to help identify a potential trend.
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Getting Started with Technical Analysis

Webcast | Check out all our past webcasts to catch up on technical analysis or plan to join upcoming sessions, so you can take the next step toward making more informed trading decisions.

Your options education hub

Whether you're an experienced options trader looking for new strategies or new to options and looking for basics, we've got you.

Investing Basics: Options

Video | Learn how options work.
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Good Eye, Trader: How to Search for the Right Stocks at the Right Time

Article | It's not a guaranteed science, and is a complex subject, but traders can lay the groundwork for a sound  stock selection strategy with a few relatively simple components.
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How Options Pricing Works

Video | Options pricing can be complicated, but it works a little like car insurance.
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Getting Started with Options

Webcast | Are you wondering how to take the first step with trading and hedging options? Access all of our past options webcasts, while making sure you tune into our upcoming webcasts.
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The options center

We offer additional resources for options strategy and education

Access more of the market with futures and forex

Learn the basics of futures and forex and futures strategies designed to hedge against market downturns.

Investing Basics: Futures

Video | Gain a better understanding of futures trading, including contract specifications like tick size, contract size, delivery, and margin requirements.
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Considering Futures to  Hedge Against Market Downturns?

Article | Why would investors consider futures-based hedging strategies? There's one big reason.
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Leveraging Capital with Futures

Webcast | Check out all of our past webcasts to catch up on leveraging capital with futures, or join upcoming sessions.

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Increase your buying power with margin trading

Margin trading gives you up to twice the purchasing power of a traditional cash account. Learn how margin can increase your buying power.

Basics of Margin Trading for Investors

Article | Trading on margin can magnify your returns, but it can also increase your losses. Learn the basics, benefits, and risks of margin trading.
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Margin Strategies: Three Ways to Use Margin & Leverage

Video | Learn strategies designed to maximize the use of margin while managing the risks of leverage.
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Looking to diversify your portfolio with unique investments?

Learn more about the risks and features of alternative types of investments like cryptocurrency, futures, real estate, and more.

Investing Basics: Bitcoin and Blockchain

Video | Everyone seems to be talking about cryptocurrencies. But, if you're confused about what they are or how they work, we can help you understand.
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Trade with the total package. We offer award-winning education resources, innovative technology, extensive product access, and a trade desk made up of real traders who can answer your questions.
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Options involve risks and are not suitable for all investors as the special risks inherent to options trading may expose investors to potentially rapid and substantial losses. Options trading privileges subject to TD Ameritrade review and approval. Please read Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options before trading options.

Margin trading increases risk of loss and includes the possibility of a forced sale if account equity drops below required levels. Margin is not available in all account types. Margin trading privileges subject to TD Ameritrade review and approval. Carefully review the Margin Handbook and Margin Disclosure Document for more details.  

Futures and futures options trading involves substantial risk and is not suitable for all investors. Please read the Risk Disclosure Statement prior to trading futures products. 

Forex trading involves leverage, carries a high level of risk and is not suitable for all investors. Please read the NFA booklet Trading Forex: What Investors Need to Know prior to trading forex products.

Futures and forex accounts are not protected by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC).

Futures, futures options, and forex trading services provided by Charles Schwab Futures and Forex LLC. Trading privileges subject to review and approval. Not all clients will qualify. Forex accounts are not available to residents of Ohio or Arizona. Prior to a name change in September 2021, Charles Schwab Futures and Forex LLC was known as TD Ameritrade Futures & Forex LLC.

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Please note that virtual currency is a digital representation of value that functions as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, or a store of value, but it does not have legal tender status. Virtual currencies are sometimes exchanged for U.S. dollars or other currencies around the world, but they are not currently backed nor supported by any government or central bank. Their value is completely derived by market forces of supply and demand, and they are more volatile than traditional fiat currencies. Profits and losses related to this volatility are amplified in margined futures contracts.

Market volatility, volume and system availability may delay account access and trade executions.

TD Ameritrade was evaluated against 14 other online brokers in the 2022 StockBrokers.com Online Broker Review. The firm was rated #1 in the categories "Platforms & Tools" (11 years in a row), "Desktop Trading Platform: thinkorswim®" (10 years in a row), "Active Trading" (2 years in a row), "Options Trading," "Customer Service," and "Phone Support." TD Ameritrade was also rated Best in Class (within the top 5) for "Overall Broker" (12 years in a row), "Education" (11 years in a row), "Commissions & Fees" (2 years in a row), "Offering of Investments" (8 years in a row), "Beginners" (10 years in a row), "Mobile Trading Apps" (10 years in a row), "Ease of Use" (6 years in a row), "IRA Accounts" (3 years in a row), "Futures Trading" (3 years in a row), and "Research" (11 years in a row). Read the full article.

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