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Stream Charts in Real-Time

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Sort Open & Completed Orders

From your account home page, you can quickly sort your Open Orders and Completed Orders for maximum accessibility. Simply click the advanced drop-down menu in the top right corner of each module to sort by symbol, quantity, transaction type, order/execution time, price and more.

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Customize your OptionsFirst layout by choosing "Basic" or "Expanded" from the top right corner of the Account Details section of the Account tab. Simply select the "Basic" or "Expanded" icon in the upper right of the Account Details or Options Chain page. The Expanded view allows you to view more information in the Account Details, Positions and Orders sections, while the Basic view lets you toggle among News, Charts, Watchlist, Hotlist and the Index Monitor in a special viewer on the right.
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Gen Y: Making Investing Fun

A survey commissioned by Scottrade last year found that Gen Y investors (born 1983-1991, ages 18-26) are increasingly involved in the market and are changing perceptions of investing.

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To Stop, or To Mimic the Stop

For many investors, trading stock can feel like eating in a restaurant in a foreign country - you know what you want to order, but you don't know how to order it.

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In Like a Lion, Out Like a ... Witch?

Four times a year the stock market gives the business press something to talk about. No, it's not a huge rally or another unexpected market event, it's Triple Witching.

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With multiple complex trades on a single underlying stock, it can become cumbersome and hard to understand how movements in the market will affect your positions. Scottrade has helped ease this burden with the Risk Viewer tool in OptionsFirst.

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