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Listed below you will find all the videos and articles included in the TOS Strategies category.
Would you like to automate your trade entries and exits on Thinkorswim? How about having those orders executed based on conditions from your favorite chart studies? Learn how to build conditional orders which cover both the trade entry and trade exit. After viewing “Thinkorswim Automated Round Trip Trades” you will be able to build orders […]
AutoTrades are not fully supported on Thinkorswim as on other platforms. However if you learn how to connect the pieces you can place conditional orders that await the signal created by a set of defined rules. Once the conditions are satisfied, the order is release from hold and becomes a live order.
After a brief slide show explaining the differences, you will see how to use the MTF MACD Strategy to extract theoretical trades from Thinkorswim into a spreadsheet for analysis. Thinkorswim Strategy Guide MTF is a more advanced version of previous videos published on this topic.
See exactly how the Ichimoku indicator performs across bear and bull markets. This Thinkorswim custom strategy plots the profit and loss graph for several Ichimoku based setups. Cloud breakouts, or cloud breakdowns, trend continuation, with and without confirming signals. It’s all covered in one package. Track long and short strategies on the same chart. Exits are handled via an adjustable Parabolic SAR.
So you know how to use the Strategies tool in the Thinkorswim platform. But do you know how to export the strategy data and create a “P/L Curve” and “Equity at Work” plots on a graph? Do you think you can do this for multiple stocks and plot all the trade data on the same graph?
Well here I am late into a Saturday evening and I don’t have anything recorded yet. No worries, I spent the day developing some great material. I know exactly what the next video is about. I am very excited to get started, but it will have to wait until tomorrow. I decided to write this brief article for you, to give you an idea what is going to be covered in the next video. As the title suggests, the video is going to be all about TOS Strategy Analysis.
Do you know how to convert a custom Scan on Thinkorswim into a custom Strategy? You will not believe how simple it is. This video shows the step-by-step instructions on how to convert custom Scans into custom Strategies. There is also a quick demo of how to convert a Strategy back into a Scan. After watching this video you will be better equipped to take your trading ideas and put them into practical use.
