and to Matt's point, that's not enough do-re-mi for normal
trading activity anyway, but I was looking to avoid the fees, then
I think there's activity minimums as well.
It wasn't the dollar amount that was the issue--with more than
one trading account/service, you have to consider tax statements
and downloads of trading data for tax returns and on and on.
Having all that with one account/service just makes all that
easier (yes, I do my own taxes, and yes, I hate it).
Hey Matt, please don't let this discourage you. I will be
more than happy to pay the $99/mth fee to have access to the BPTMA
on TS, along with several others I am sure...
Thanks, and keep pushing the team at TS to get this going.
It's $99/mo for the platform. What I'm going to do when Matt
says everything is ready is pay the $99, download the platform,
trade with the indicators for a month using my TDA brokerage
account, evaluate how I did, then decide if I want to open a
brokerage account with TS, or continue paying the $99/mo to just
use the platform. Open a brokerage account with a minimum deposit
of $2K and the platform is free:
https://www.tradestation.com/pricing/ Might be
some minimum trading requirement as well not sure about that
unclear what you mean. 2K for privilege? You need a TS account,
you can just play for the platform software and not open an
account, but that way I think it's 100 month. Why not just
open a trading account and do trades there then the platform is
free. I don't know what you mean but 2K, maybe that's the min
required to open a trading account, but what serious trader or
investor is only putting 2K into a trading account, come on.
I opened a trading account back in 1995 when I was still in
College, that was all I could afford, again I have have no idea
what that 2K for privilege means. Otherwise the facts are you
can either just play for their platform without opening an account,
or actually open a trading account and deposit money into it and
get those fees waived by doing some trades.
again think of it like you're a carpenter, you need to buy a set
of tools in order to do your job, can't you say I want to be a
carpenter but I don't want to buy myself a set of tools.
Matt--thanks. Substitute "advantage" or "benefit" for
privilege. And I completely agree with you on all points, I
was just trying to keep all my trading in one place, but it's a
minor adjustment to make for the benefit (privilege) of getting the
new DVT charts.
Hm, I don't want to
some preliminary daily SPX DVT stats
Posted by 24kau on 14th of Aug 2020 at 12:00 pm
Hm, I don't want to trade through them, just use the charts. Looks like it requires a $2K deposit for the privilege?
24kau, not sure where you
Posted by hoek2 on 14th of Aug 2020 at 12:38 pm
24kau, not sure where you saw that it requires $2K deposit. Pretty sure you are mistaken
and to Matt's point, that's
Posted by 24kau on 14th of Aug 2020 at 12:41 pm
and to Matt's point, that's not enough do-re-mi for normal trading activity anyway, but I was looking to avoid the fees, then I think there's activity minimums as well.
If you want to avoid
Posted by 24kau on 14th of Aug 2020 at 12:39 pm
If you want to avoid the $99/month fee, the minimum deposit for a trading account is $2K.
yes, but don't you need
Posted by hoek2 on 14th of Aug 2020 at 12:45 pm
yes, but don't you need money to trade? The deposit is not lost, you then use that $2k to make trades....
if you don't have access to $2k worth of capital to trade I am not sure how you expect to make trades?
It wasn't the dollar amount
Posted by 24kau on 14th of Aug 2020 at 12:48 pm
It wasn't the dollar amount that was the issue--with more than one trading account/service, you have to consider tax statements and downloads of trading data for tax returns and on and on. Having all that with one account/service just makes all that easier (yes, I do my own taxes, and yes, I hate it).
Hey Matt, please don't let
Posted by hoek2 on 14th of Aug 2020 at 01:33 pm
Hey Matt, please don't let this discourage you. I will be more than happy to pay the $99/mth fee to have access to the BPTMA on TS, along with several others I am sure...
Thanks, and keep pushing the team at TS to get this going.
It's $99/mo for the platform.
Posted by craigm on 14th of Aug 2020 at 12:35 pm
It's $99/mo for the platform. What I'm going to do when Matt says everything is ready is pay the $99, download the platform, trade with the indicators for a month using my TDA brokerage account, evaluate how I did, then decide if I want to open a brokerage account with TS, or continue paying the $99/mo to just use the platform. Open a brokerage account with a minimum deposit of $2K and the platform is free: https://www.tradestation.com/pricing/ Might be some minimum trading requirement as well not sure about that
Sounds like a great plan.
Posted by 24kau on 14th of Aug 2020 at 12:36 pm
Sounds like a great plan.
unclear what you mean. 2K
Posted by matt on 14th of Aug 2020 at 12:26 pm
unclear what you mean. 2K for privilege? You need a TS account, you can just play for the platform software and not open an account, but that way I think it's 100 month. Why not just open a trading account and do trades there then the platform is free. I don't know what you mean but 2K, maybe that's the min required to open a trading account, but what serious trader or investor is only putting 2K into a trading account, come on. I opened a trading account back in 1995 when I was still in College, that was all I could afford, again I have have no idea what that 2K for privilege means. Otherwise the facts are you can either just play for their platform without opening an account, or actually open a trading account and deposit money into it and get those fees waived by doing some trades.
again think of it like you're a carpenter, you need to buy a set of tools in order to do your job, can't you say I want to be a carpenter but I don't want to buy myself a set of tools.
Very well said Matt !
Posted by iaranger on 14th of Aug 2020 at 01:45 pm
Very well said Matt !
Matt--thanks. Substitute "advantage" or "benefit"
Posted by 24kau on 14th of Aug 2020 at 12:35 pm
Matt--thanks. Substitute "advantage" or "benefit" for privilege. And I completely agree with you on all points, I was just trying to keep all my trading in one place, but it's a minor adjustment to make for the benefit (privilege) of getting the new DVT charts.
and plus you do not
Posted by hoek2 on 14th of Aug 2020 at 12:40 pm
and plus you do not have to trade on TS, just use the chart, like using Stockcharts for example.