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How many of you like FREE stuff?

Ok. Stupid question. How many of you like quality free stuff? If you are on this site, you are likely trying to make money trading options...and maybe other trading vehichles as well.

So Tasty Trade could put you back $90/month if you didn't know any better. But we would not let you do that on our watch. The first thing you need to know is that if you use the Think or Swim platform to trade then its free. Oh, by the way, Think or Swim from TD Ameritrade is not only the most sophisticated platform out there but its FREE also.

Now that you have this information, what are you going to do with it?

1) Go open up an account with TD Ameritrade and download the Think or Swim Platform.

2) Then once you account is set up and funded you are going to send an email to tastysupport@tdameritrade.com to get your free account at tasty trade setup.

Once you get your tastytrade.com account, you need to start tuning in and learning.

Don't forget to contact support and ask them to lower your commission rate. Just tell them you want them to match interactive brokers option rates. They may give you a spill...blah, blah, blah. At first they will likely offer you a $1.25/contract commission rate for options and a penny per share for stock. That is a good deal to start, and as your volume picks up you can go back to the table.

For full disclosure Jason, Sandeep, and myself pay $0.75/contract for options and a penny per share for stock trades. Its a great rate, especially when you keep your trades small. Which is really the way we recommend you trade.

Let us know if you open an account with TD Ameritrade and get the TastyTrade.com account. We have been on the trading platform for a while and can help if you need any navigating the platform. But you will also learn a lot of that from the show.

Good Luck Trading!

P.S. If you are just begining you should tune into the new series on tastytrade.com called "Where Do I Start?

Tom Sosnoff, the co-founder of ThinkorSwim and founder of TastyTrade.com is teaching his daughter from the ground up how to trade the financial markets and make money.

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