Hi, traders.
I'm Anthony Panzeca.
The left sidebar is an area in the Thinkorswim platform
where you can keep track of all of your account balances,
view market information, and watch live news without ever
having to leave the main window of the platform.
Let's jump right in and take a look.
The left-hand side bar is located on the left-hand side
of your screen.
You can think of it like a dashboard
that no matter where you are on the platform,
it will always be visible for you off to the left.
It is completely customizable.
You decide what goes where and how it's laid out.
It allows you to add and remove a number of different gadgets
on the platform, including utilities and other features.
Let's show you how.
When you first log into the Thinkorswim platform,
you'll see a few different preloaded gadgets off
to the left.
These include an account information, live news, Trader
TV, watch list.
And down below, if you click this little arrow down here,
you'll see that there's another quick chart.
And you can use these arrows to scroll up and down.
To remove a gadget, all you have to do
is come up to the little menu, click on that,
and then you can delete the gadget from here.
Or you can come down here, click on the little gear wheel,
and then click on the X, and it'll
remove the gadget for you.
The only gadget you can't delete is the Account Information
Section if you're in a public place
and you don't want people to see your account information,
you can either click on Option Buying Power or Net Liq & Day
Trades, and you can put it into Privacy Mode,
and it'll hide all of that information for you.
The next feature on the left-hand side bar
is Trader TV.
You can simply start that up by pressing the Play button.
You can adjust the volume right here
by toggling the little circle up and down.
If you want to mute it, just click on the little speaker.
And then you have all your channel options right here--
TD Ameritrade Network, CNBC US, Europe, and Asia.
And now we can drop down to the Watch List.
Watch List is an interesting feature.
There's a lot you can do with this little tab here.
So I'm just going to go ahead and expand
that, just like that.
You can add or remove symbols from the Watch List
just by doing this.
You can click on Facebook if you want.
Backspace and Enter will delete it.
If I want to add it back on, just click into an empty field
below.
We're going to put FB right back in there.
OK?
You can actually move symbols around on the Watch List
as well.
So if I wanted to move Microsoft up or down the Watch List,
I could simply click on it and drag it
to where I want it to go, and bam.
It lands right where you want it to go.
A couple different things up here.
If you click on here, this is the default watch list.
If you click on it, you have a number of different areas
that show up here.
All of your personal watch lists will be at the top,
and then you have an other watch list.
You have the Dow Jones Industrial Average,
all the different ETFs, percentage gainers and losers.
For right now, we'll just click on the Dow Jones Industrial
Average, and it shows all the stocks
that are in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
You can see them all right there.
Another cool thing that you can do
is you could actually link your watch list
to the rest of the platform.
So we're going to take this little number two here.
We can change that to any color we want.
We'll change it to red.
And then we're going to change the Trade tab paperclip to red
as well.
And now you're going to see when you click on something
in the watch list, it also populates off
to the right in the Trade tab.
You could also do this with the charts as well.
If I click on CAT, that will also change in the chart.
Very cool feature.
So this part of the platform here,
you're going to have a limited amount of real estate,
so just be careful how much you have in there
and how much you take out.
You can also adjust the sidebar right here
by moving it left or right to give yourself
a little more room.
OK?
Now on to the next.
We have a quick chart right here.
This is defaulted on the platform as well,
and this will always be available for you.
So if you just want to see a quick chart on,
let's say, Apple, you can type an Apple into there,
and that will populate for you.
OK.
So let's go through the customization process.
You can come down to this little gear wheel right here.
And let's say that you don't like where the quick chart is,
and you want it on top.
You can simply click on the little gear,
get the little hand out, and move this guy up to the top,
and he'll move down for you.
Let's say you just don't like the quick chart,
and you just want to get rid of it
and create a little more space.
You can click the X, and it'll remove it for you.
This little plus sign here is what
you're going to want to come into,
and this is the list of all the gadgets that
are available on the platform.
You can bring up the calculator, level 2 quotes.
You can actually play games on here.
A lot of different things you could do.
You can add multiple watch lists, not just one.
So let's say you wanted to have the Dow up here to be
able to look at that.
You can see that up here.
And then you have your own personal watch list
that you want to put, say, right below it.
You can have your defaulted watch list there as well.
Another cool feature is level two quotes.
You can have those here as well, and you can link those
just by doing that.
And every time you change a symbol
in your watch list, your level two quote will change as well.
And finally, if you want to get rid of the left-hand side bar
so you have a little more real estate off to the right,
you can simply collapse it by clicking on the arrow.
And then if you want it back, click the arrow back,
and it'll come back for you.
And that's a quick look at the left-hand side bar
on the Thinkorswim platform.
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