Getting wet with thinkorswim

Last week, while looking for a brokerage to setup my Roth IRA, I stumbled upon a new discount brokerage, thinkorswim. I haven’t  setup my Roth with them yet, but I did register for a free paperMoney account and downloaded their desktop software. I also downloaded thinkAnywhere, which is a Java-based application for Windows Mobile.

From the couple days I’ve had it, I am very impressed with all the tools and data you have accessed to. When I first saw what TOS offered in their desktop software, I was blown away. I currently only have trading accounts with Zecco and Interactive Brokers, so that may have something to do with my reaction. (If you are familiar with either, you can probably tell that I was looking for the cheapest of the cheap when I signed up for those two. And you do get what you pay for in those two cases.)