Ask The Suit
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A little Q&A with Nicole Sherrod, Managing
Director, Trader Group at TD Ameritrade
TD Ameritrade bought my
account and all I got was this
monkey in a lousy T-shirt.
What gives?
That’s right! It’s mass pandemonium. Dogs and cats … living
together. Former thinkorswim
clients are now officially living
under the same roof with
TD Ameritrade clients. And we
couldn’t be happier to have them
as a part of the family. So maybe
we didn’t send you anything tangible, but my team of product development elves have been hard at
work assembling a whole host of
new toys for traders that we will
be rolling out in late fall and early
winter—just in time for the holidays. We’ve received no shortage
of notes from clients who have
informed us that we are on the
naughty list because we haven’t
been delivering new features as
regularly as we used to. The reality
of the situation is that we’ve been
hard at work gluing these two companies together. The effort was
nothing short of MacGyverian. We
used more bubble gum, duct tape,
and pipe cleaners than you could
ever imagine, but the heavy lifting
is done and we are now very much
focused on getting back to our
normally scheduled software
releases. Stay tuned …
I recently became a new
father and wanted to let you
know that I sometimes read
the thinkorswim User Manual
to help the baby fall to sleep.
Oh yeah? It also works wonders for
potty training puppies and lining
bird cages. But I get your point. Our
old User Manual had … how should I
say … a few opportunities. To that
end, if you visit the help tab, you’ll
see that we worked with the talented staff that produces
thinkMoney to create a new user
manual in the same look, feel, and
voice. It’s even scratch and sniff
and has popups! Okay, not really,
but I’m sure you will find that it will
delight all of your trading senses
and will help make you a power
user of our fantastic desktop trading software.
I have accounts at other firms
and no one sends me anything like thinkMoney. What
can I do to thank you for
brightening my day once a
quarter?
Transfer the accounts at the “other
firms” to TD Ameritrade! No, really.
Do that. I beg of you.
Pot Shots
Reality Trading
Shows that
Didn’t Make the
Fall Network
Lineup
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KEY:
2 Buy Tickets =
1 Buy Ticket =
1 Sell Ticket =
2 Sell Tickets =
Trader Wife
Swap
A new tech integration that lets
you run all your
trading decisions
by another person’s wife.
Theta Hunter
Somehow, even
rampant market
volatility and
three-legged
spreads don’t
conjure images of
living life on the
edge.
Extreme Position Makeover
It starts with a
simple call option
that somehow fell
off a cliff. Watch as
a team of floor
traders puts it back
together, one delta
at a time.
Chicago Shore
Can a clan of
unemployed market specialists
who once stood in
the pits together
survive 30 days
and 30 nights
under one roof?
Pimp My
Iron Condor
If you thought
selling naked puts
was sexy, imagine
putting on two
verticals.
