FAQ - Most Common Questions

To enable real-time stock and option quotes on thinkorswim please log into schwab.com or Schwab Mobile where you’ll be prompted to sign your professional or non-professional agreements. Professional users can request real-time data by calling Schwab at 800-435-9050. For Non-Professionals, after you have completed your non-professional agreements, please log out of thinkorswim and log back in.

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Day Trading Buying Power is given to margin accounts that have completed more than 3 day trades in a 5 rolling business day period, and have a start of day margin equity value of over $25,000. If this occurs, your account will generally show a day trade buying power (DTBP) value.

Yes, to access this information, go to Monitor > Account Statement > Account Summary. Your monthly accrued interest is the difference between your Available Funds For Trading and your Option Buying Power as long as your funds are cleared for options trading.

In the example below, the account has $313.66 in Available Funding for Trading and $113.80 in Option Buying Power. The difference of $199.86 is the monthly accrued margin interest, which is debited from the cash balance on the 2nd to last business day of every month.

Account Summary

If balances and positions are not appearing, it may indicate that you currently have view only access on thinkorswim. If you are interested in learning more about gaining access to thinkorswim, please start a chat by selecting “support” at the top of the platform or call us directly at 800-435-9050.

Yes, the Analyze tab is a great resource to simulate potential trades to see how they may impact overall margin requirements prior to placing a trade. In addition, you can calculate theoretical max profit, max loss, breakeven points, as well as the Greeks.

Yes, to access it go to the Education Tab > Learning Center. In the Learning Center you can navigate to the thinkManual to learn about each tab on our platform. In addition, you can navigate to the Technical Analysis section to find in depth descriptions for Studies, Drawings, Patterns, and our proprietary programming language thinkScript.

Click the setup button at the top right of the main thinkorswim window. In the menu, select ‘Save workspace as…’ Once you have given your workspace a name and successfully saved it, you will now be able load and share that workspace.