The "daily Call" From Option Alpha: Options Trading | Stock Options | Stock Trading | Trading Online

Hey everyone. This is Kirk here again from Option Alpha and welcome back to the daily call. Today, we’re going to go through the Thinkorswim Account Info Basics Guide which is basically my fancy way of just saying, “We’re going to tell you what all those numbers in the account info box on the top left-hand corner of your Thinkorswim platform actually means.” There’s a couple of different things inside of that box. It can be confusing because there’s a lot of numbers trailing around in there, buying power, day trading limit, cash and sweep. And so, what we want to do is help you understand what each of those boxes means. Again, if you're logged in to your Thinkorswim platform on your desktop or you can even see this I believe in your mobile platform, this is what you'll see in that top left-hand corner. It’s the account info box which you can toggle open and you can move around in your platform. The first box there is the option buying power box or at least it’s the first box for me because I actually have opt