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Think Or Swim Beginner Tutorial

A beginner-friendly thinkorswim tutorial that walks you through the basics: opening and setting up your account, placing your first trades, bracket orders for stop losses and take-profit levels, practicing on paper first, and plenty more.

Beginner

What you’ll learn

  • 01Welcome — start here
  • 02Opening your Charles Schwab account
  • 03Installing thinkorswim
  • 04A tour of thinkorswim
  • 05Two important things to set up first
  • 06Building your watchlist
  • 07The main chart area
  • 08Active Trader
  • 09How to place a stop loss
  • 10Using OnDemand
  • 11Paper trading — practice without risking money
  • 12Where to go from here