Enhanced Web Trading: Place Trades
Submit simple or complex trade orders from StreetSmart.com's Quick Trade panel.
Quick Trade Panel
- Enter stock or options trades from several places in the platform instantly.
- Keep your main tabs open to important data like charts while placing a trade.
Options Orders
- Place a variety of options orders of varying complexity.
- Choose from Buy-Writes, Sell-Writes, Unwinds, Rollouts, Collars, Straddles and Strangles, Vertical Spreads, and Calendar Spreads.
- Using your preferred option strategy, with a click filter for potential option combinations that match the strategy criteria.
Advanced Order Types
Help maximize potential profits and minimize risk with advanced order types including:
- Brackets
- Trailing stops
- Conditional orders
Find a Tool
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Streaming News
View and search real-time business and market news.
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Watch Lists
Monitor the market data that matters most to you.
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Interactive Charting
Help determine market direction and better understand a security.
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Quotes & Research
Get an instant quote or dive deeper with extensive research.
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Quick Trade Panel
Place a trade while keeping key info open for viewing.
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Options Orders
Multi-leg options strategies to fit a variety of strategies.
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Advanced Order Types
Attain greater control over your trading with advanced order types.
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Conditional Orders
Help protect profits even when you're offline.
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Bracket Orders
Apply your risk management strategy when creating orders.
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Trailing Stops
Let your potential profits run while minimizing losses.
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Quick Reference Panel
View vital account and market information in one convenient place.
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Order Status
View vital account and market information in one convenient place.
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Realized Gain/Loss
Comprehensive profit and loss information in multiple areas.
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Positions
Evaluate your market exposure with detailed info on open positions.
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Layout
Get more out of your trading tools with a personalized layout.
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Level II/Options Chains
Modify market data based on multiple criteria.
Quick Links for Traders
*Free trades expire 180 days after account approval, up to 250 trades total. Applies to base online equity, ETF, and option commissions only. Option per-contract and foreign transaction fees still apply. To qualify, call 888-245-6864 and commit to making a minimum of 36 online equity or options trades per year and deposit $50,000. Other commission-free trade offers may be available if you deposit less than $50,000 -- call 888-245-6864 for terms. Commission-free trades will be assigned following determination of eligibility by Schwab. Account and assets deposited must be new to Schwab. Assets transferred from optionsXpress, Inc. or other Schwab affiliates are excluded. Current Schwab clients and households are not eligible. Offer valid until 12/31/2012. Offer is nontransferable, limited to one per household, and may not be combined with other offers. Accounts ineligible for this offer include, without limitation: 401(k), 403(b), Custodial, 529 Plan and Estate accounts. Only trades placed through Schwab.com, Schwab trading platform applications and Schwab Wireless are eligible for free trades. No credit will be given for unexecuted trades. Domestic, nonprofessional accounts only. Schwab, Schwab-affiliated, broker-dealer and exchange employees are not eligible. Other exceptions may apply. Schwab reserves the right to restrict this offer at any time.
Schwab’s StreetSmart tools are available for Schwab Active Trading clients. To qualify as a Schwab Active Trading client, you must commit to making a minimum of 36 online equity or options trades per year. Call 888-245-6864 to qualify. Access to Nasdaq TotalView® quotes is provided for free to non-professional clients who have made 120 or more equity and options trades in the last 12 months, or 30 or more equity and options trades in either the current or previous quarter, or who maintain $1 million or more in household balances at Schwab. Schwab Active Trading clients who do not meet these requirements can subscribe to Nasdaq TotalView quotes for a quarterly fee. Professional clients may be required to meet additional criteria before obtaining a subscription to Nasdaq TotalView quotes. This offer may be subject to additional restrictions or fees, and may be changed at any time. The speed and performance of streaming data may vary depending on your modem speed and ISP connection. Access to electronic services may be limited or unavailable during periods of peak demand, market volatility, systems upgrades or maintenance, or for other reasons.
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