GlobexTrader

Oh good, Maybe I could set it up using the stock info just to see all the features and stuff in MT even though I wouldn't do any trading. And then I could lean on Schwab to get the futures API working. Here's a screenshot of how I had StreetSmart Central setup. Pink lines are just the 4pm close so I know where I'm at on the chart. Green and red lines are the high/low during the opening range. And then I'll draw in some trendlines. I don't bother with all those indicator studies and stuff. One of my most important indicators on the charts is right there on the charts in plain sight and yet everybody misses it. Time. And what time is it and at what time did certain stuff on the charts happen. At 8pm Japan starts trading. Then at 9:30 China starts up. I look on the charts to see what happened at those times. And if the chart looks good, I'll even trade it. At 3am, well until next weekend (Europe doesn't switch to daylight saving until next weekend) 4am Europe opens, Sometimes some of the most important stuff to happen on the charts happens between 3-4am. Making money trading the indexes is about knowing how the markets work.

Well that sucks. Trading stocks is a waste of time. I own them. I use futures to tax efficiently cashflow the markets. Were some things I liked about StreetSmart Central and other stuff I hated. MT still fully works with IB? I use to trade with IB and QuoteTrader. I was way under capitalized back then and it was much harder to trade profitably. Compared to 20 yrs ago, making money trading futures is a piece of cake these days. I've got a dormant IB account. Not sure I can even log into it. Hmmmm. Maybe see if I can get it going and put a few bucks in it so I can try out MT. Well we are live on Thinkorswim. Oh I hate the drawing tools in Thinkorswim. They are god awful. That was one thing I liked about StreetSmart Central. Had great easy to use drawing tools. And you could move the chart around within the frame up/down, left/right with just a swipe of your fingers. With Thinkorswim you have to look for the little arrows under the chart. This is what I've got setup in Thinkorswim so far.

I'm in the same boat you are. StreetSnart Central is now toast. Trying now to get Thinkorswim setup on how I want it. Not exactly happy with it. Now that Schwab has forced this move, they need to make sure I'm happy or I'm moving my 7 figure account to IB. I don't trade stocks. I own them. So I could care less about any stock trading features in Thinkorswim. I use futures to tax efficiently cashflow the markets. And I ain't cashflowing it for a few hundred a day. That would be a waste of my time.

But for us Schwab clients trading futures, they are shutting down StreetSmartCentral after next Friday. At least they will enable Think or Swim finally. I don't know why they couldn't have done that long ago. All they had to do was give us a TDAmeritrade account that would link back to our Schwab account. It's basically what StreetSmartCentral is. It's what they did back at the end of 2017. Before then Schwab didn't offer futures trading. You had to open an account with their subsidiary, been so long I don't remember if that was called StreetSmartCentral, and then physically move money to the account. There was no way to use any of your cash or margin in your Schwab account. In 2017 when they finally setup the SreetSmartCentral you had to open an "account" with it, but then just linked it back to your Schwab account and then it would behind the scenes move your cash/margin back and forth between the two accounts. You never had to "fund" the StreetSmartCentral account.

What, they are not going to enable futures? So I'm going to be stuck with Think or Swim? At least it will be an improvement for StreetSmartCentral.

You can traded futures from the all in one platform? When did they enable that? I thought you had to use StreetSmartCentral. And they wouldn't let us you Think or Swim.