What's up Everyone Ross here from Warrior Trading. So in this video, I'm gonna walk you through the three most important settings that you need to enable today. If you're gonna use TD Ameritrade Thinkorswim for day trading, you know what these three settings are gonna do. They're gonna make you a faster trader and a faster trader is a more accurate trainer and a more accurate trader typically is a more profitable trader.

So if you want to be more profitable, you better enable these three settings today. and that's what I'm gonna walk you through during this video. As always, if you have questions, please leave them below any comments, leave them below I Respond to every question comment post on my channel if you like these videos, thumbs up and subscribe to the channel! Alright, let's get into these three most important settings. All right.

So you want to use TD Ameritrade for active day trading? That's awesome! The Commission's are free, but you've got to make sure you enable these three settings in order to make the most of the platform. I've been using TD Ameritrade a little bit on the side and today I'm up five thousand, nine hundred, thirty, six dollars and 67 cents Which is an awesome day so you can absolutely day trade in. This platform is not quite as fast as the direct access platforms that I like to use, but it's adequate. You know you can work with what you've got, and the free Commission's is definitely a compelling offer.

So the first setting that I want to show you go into setup and then go down to application settings. Now if you go down to system right here, what you'll notice is that I have my quote speed set to real time. That makes sense, right? Real time quotes? Well, it does make sense, However, by default I Believe it's set at moderate. Maybe it set it fast, but it's definitely not set at real time and that's probably okay for people that aren't particularly active traders who maybe are taking a trade every now and then.

their computer will run a little faster without this updating in real time. But for us, for day traders, those of us who are trying to take quick trades, we need real time quotes. so you want to go into settings system and change that to real time. Alright, so apply.

so that's done. So now my quotes right here gonna be updating in real time now. I'll do a separate video where I talk about why I Kind of have this setup the way I do you know the without the level two and using this active trade and everything else I'm gonna do a totally separate video on that. It's gonna include a link to download my shared workspace.

So if you want to pop this right up on your layout and and see how I look at it, you can do that and you're welcome to it. So I'll put a link in the description below for you guys to check out that video on setting up the TD Ameritrade it from from a perspective of layout. Now the second setting. Go back to setup, go to application settings and you want to go to Active Trader And what you want to do is you want to change the active trader order submission rate limit to zero.

by default, it's set at 500 and what that means is that if you double click this right here like that, it will not send two orders the way this works. and I don't want to send an actual order and I could put it at one share. I Guess that's mom I don't even really want to do that and let me let me pull up a different stock Sirius Satellite Radio This has a very tight spread. Okay, so um, so if I click this I don't think it's actually not going to work after hours and but so they're you know I click the Buy market and if I click it a second time.

third time see how this is changing to three. So if I go one two see how quickly the orders moving up I want that because I want to be able to trade really quickly. Alright, so let me go here. I'm gonna cancel all these orders.

Alright, so they're cancelled out now. if you have this application setting by default set to 500, what's gonna happen is you start double clicking and it's gonna pop up this after the first order And that happened to me and I was like you know, son of a gun I want to be jumping in this stock. This thing's slowing me down cuz now I've got to click here and then you know I click it again. That comes up again.

So that's when I learned I'm gonna go cancel all to go into setup application settings and then change this active trader to zero. It'll make the platform accept your orders instantaneously. So if you want to take 10,000 shares with 10 clicks, you can do it. You want to take 10 shares with 10 clicks of a one share.

You can do that too. And with zero Commission's you know no reason but why? Why you might not want to. All right? So now the last setting. I'm gonna log out here and I'm gonna bring up the login window because this last setting is actually on the login window.

Alright, so let's pull this up here. Alright, Oops, there we go. Sorry. Alright, so this is the login window for TD Ameritrade And what you want to do is you want to click on this little Settings button and you want to change your memory usage from typically I think it'll be like this and you want to increase this I increase mine - 61-44 Now I don't want to go all the way up to 26 71 I don't want Ameritrade to be using a ton of resources but I want it to use enough resources that it runs quickly and performs well.

Alright, so I bumped it up from thirty to seventy eight to thirty to sixty four. Alright and now it runs really fast and if you want to see how fast your runs, let me pull up this video of me trading today where I made just about six thousand bucks and I will show you how fast these orders were executing. Hang on, let me just grab this. Alright, so now today I actually was trading in two accounts at the same time.

On the left side I've got my Lightspeed account and on the right side I've got my TD account and with TD I have this layout kind of minimized to just the way I want just just exactly what I need and nothing extra. Alright so let's look for you can see right here my position size is zero and actually well I'll get into I'll get again I'll get into more of why I'm using this way in terms of layout in my layout video. Alright so let's see, did you - Gigi Gigi to do - Alright, so looks like I'm about to click the Buy button here three times. so let's watch this.

So just like that I clicked three orders for 1000 shares. See that three clicks and just like that I'm in. That's the type of speed that I want. And let's look at the price so it's 78 by 84 right now and I just click the Buy button at 84 and check it out.

I filled and I'm filling at 82. That's an awesome fill. 83. Okay, a little on the higher side and the rest is in I filled the whole thing in a T-33 so I got a pretty good fill on that order instantaneous.

I mean very close to instantaneous considering I was doing a buy the ask and not a market order. Now the advantage of doing a market orders, you will fill the whole thing. the buy to ask. It slowed for a second because the order the spread was 84 by 87 and my order was at 84.

And but I won't risk on a stock like this suddenly paying nine dollars and 15 cents because it ripped up. you know, without me or whatever. So here we're gonna get this stock breaking up. So what I'm gonna do here on my exit is I'm gonna place orders.

let's see, let me just go back a little bit. So right now it shows I have no working orders and so I'm gonna scroll up on the ladder. this is the the active trader ladder and I'm gonna go place a couple orders on the high side I pop one at 21 at 24. Alright so now I've got a couple orders, a couple sell orders out there, they're ready to execute.

Now all I need is for the stock to rip up to that level of 20 and 24. but because I've already put them out there and I was able to do it as quickly as tapping. Just like that. Check it out.

That order filled at 20. just like that, it filled at 20 and I'm out and I've got the other one at 24, it hasn't executed yet. Oh I put it up just a little too high, but I expected the break there would potentially give me that nice move and on this one, you know I got it on the first and I'm looking for that second execution and they're I guess I took an order out at 18 I've got another order, they're still at 24. I'm gonna click cancel all now.

we're 20 by 25. Look at that. So this stock I've got now a thousand shares at 884 for the record, I will continue holding this up to ten I'm still holding 250 shares now it's an 11 still holding now. I'm holding 50 shares and the stock is at 11:45 Pretty impressive.

So can you day trade with TD Ameritrade The answer is yes, absolutely. but you've got to make sure you enable those settings and you want to make sure you've got the layout dialed in so you can trade quickly because it's not quite as intuitive a platform as Lightspeed over here where you can type in your order, price and just click the Buy button. It takes a little getting used to and I you know I'll be the first to admit that I wasn't the quickest to warm up to it, but I have been pretty impressed with it. so I encourage you guys.

If you want to get a copy of my layout, check out the link in description below which is I'm gonna jump you over to the video where I break down my layout how I've got this set up and I'll talk a little bit about the charting perspective as well. All right, and if you have some tips of things that you guys do to get this platform to work even better, maybe a couple settings that I haven't thought of yet. leave them down below in the comments. All right, thank you guys! I Hope you enjoyed the video and I will see you next time you want to learn more about trading.

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