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Hey everyone. This is Kirk here again from Option Alpha and welcome back to the daily call. Today, we’re going to be answering the question, “Is TD Ameritrade a good brokerage platform for beginners?” Specifically, I think we can talk about TD Ameritrade’s main platform for trading which is the Thinkorswim platform which they purchased a number of years ago, but I do think that TD Ameritrade has its limitations for new traders. It can sometimes be a little bit overwhelming for new traders to get acclimated to the TD Ameritrade platform and the Thinkorswim platform and the reason is because honestly, there are so many buttons and tabs and things to press, it almost feels like you're in a jet engine cockpit. And you don't want to touch too many things, but you know you have to basically push some buttons to make charts appear and to make trades work. Overall, I do think it's still the best platform out there. I think the learning curve is something that you can get over very quickly. We have a lot of videos on