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Active Trader Margin Trading Account1
A Margin account allows you to trade with your own cash and borrowed funds. This gives you more purchasing power and the ability to leverage your existing investments to potentially increase the size of your portfolio. However, using borrowed money to finance the purchase of investments involves greater risk than a purchase using personal cash resources only. If you borrow money to purchase securities, your responsibility to repay the loan and pay interest as required remains the same even if the value of the securities declines. An investment strategy that uses borrowed money could result in far greater losses than an investment strategy that does not use borrowed money.
Opening an Active Trader Margin account gives clients exclusive access to the TD Active Trader platform – allowing for multi-legged option strategies, real time level-1 and Level-2 data, advances order types, sophisticated charting and more.
TD Active Trader
The TD Active Trader platform was designed with active traders in mind. The platform allows for multi-legged options strategies, provides streaming market data, advanced charting, and contains robust feature sets—all personalized and fully customizable.
Why Choose an Active Trader Margin Account?
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TD Active Trader Platform |
This is the only account at TD Direct Investing that gives you access to the TD Active Trader Platform |
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Dedicated Mobile app |
With an Active Trader Margin account, you have exclusive access to the TD Active Trader Mobile app |
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Customizable platform |
Customize and personalize the platform to you |
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Real-time data |
Access to streaming level 1 and level 2 real time data – including real time equity and options time and sales |
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Practice account |
Try TD Active Trader risk-free with a practice account |
Comparing a Margin Account to the Active Trader Margin Account at TD Direct Investing
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Active Trader Margin account |
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What are the available investment types?
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Canadian + U.S. stocks, mutual funds, ETFs, options, and fixed income
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U.S. stocks, ETFs, and options
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Can I buy securities using leverage?
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Yes
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Yes, using advanced margin algorithms only available to Active Trader customers
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Can I trade in partial shares?
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Yes
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No
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Can I trade options?
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Yes, up to two-legged strategies
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Yes, up to four-legged strategies
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Is short selling permitted?
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Yes, if short selling has been enabled
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Yes, without the need to specify your short account.
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Can I trade with the TD Active Trader platform?
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No
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Yes
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Dedicated mobile app
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Trade with the TD app
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Dedicated TD Active Trader App
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TD Active Trader Platform
The TD Active Trader platform is customizable, fast, and can stream market data. Enjoy multi-leg options capabilities, advanced order types, sophisticated charting, and more.
Got questions? We have answers.
Invest account transfers from third-party financial institutions can be initiated by our Investment Representatives. How quickly a transfer is completed depends on the account type, delivering institution, the investments you hold and seasonal volumes. We will review and discuss these details with you further.
To set up an appointment at a time convenient for you, call 1-877-348-6722.
TD Active Trader offers a variety of professional grade trading tools and resources which are fully customizable to meet your preferences. You can trade multi-leg options strategies, which includes three- and four-legged options strategies. It also provides access to advanced charting features so you can review, compare, and track investment ideas by customizing charts using over 100 technical indicators, check multiple stocks and charts at once and set alerts.
Other advanced trading strategies available in Active Trader include One Cancels Other (OCO), First Triggers One Cancels Other (FTO), First Triggers Sequence (FTS) and First Triggers All (FTA) orders, with the ability to create up to eight linked orders.
The same fees that you paid when using Thinkorswim (TOS) are applicable to TD Active Trader such as, commissions, margin interest, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fees. Click here to learn more about our fees and pricing.
Note: Commissions and interest rates are subject to change without notice. All other rates and fees are subject to change upon 60 days prior notice. For the most current schedule of rates and fees refer to the Commission Schedule and Statement of Disclosure of Rates & Fees.
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