thinkMoney - Spring 2009

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the products and services you get for free, such as live data, news, the trading platform, service, etc. In fact, TD Ameritrade does not currently charge for any of its platforms, either. You’ll always be able to call our trade desk for help. We’ll going to be adding a number of experienced traders to our desk to handle the increasing trading volume and support requests.

The product development schedule will also proceed full-steam ahead. Our development team is going to remain intact, and we’ll continue to hammer out new releases, with enhancements and trading toys, every month as we always have. And yes, you’ll still be able to trade complex option spreads, futures, and FX on the platform. We’ll even continue to expand the list of products you can trade. As for the option margins and ability to trade in IRAs, that will stay the same.

We’ll also be expanding our educational products and classes to a much wider audience, as well as the number of advisors that we will support for auto-trading.

The bottom line– this monkey ain’t going anywhere. Now, I have to get back to answering emails.

You’ve probably already heard
the news that TD Ameritrade is
in the process of buying thinkor-
swim. So, let me take this opportu-
nity to answer some questions that
I get asked frequently.

The main thing people want to know is whether we’ll still be sending out the monkeys. That’s a board decision. As of this writing, it’s about 40% for and 40% against. We’re working hard to get the majority of the remaining 20% to the pro-mon-key side by the next meeting. We think we’ll be able to pull it off.

Then, what about commissions?
There has been a lot of thought
about that, and although we can’t
make any guarantees, we believe
that TD Ameritrade will treat this as
it has its other acquisitions and
grandfather in everybody’s existing
TOS rate. Also, there are no plans
whatsoever to charge any fees for
Yours truly,
Tom Sosnoff
President, thinkorswim