You can use any of the two trading platforms TD Ameritrade offers, as well as their mobile app, to buy and sell stocks. Beginners will find it easier to use the company’s main website to place stock orders. Just search for the stock’s ticker symbol and enter your order right there. More advanced traders, however, will find it better to enter their trades on the thinkstorm desktop platform. This is an advanced and robust platform with a number of resources made for optimal performance. Alternatively, however, you can even place trades via Twitter Direct Messages, Facebook Messenger and Apple Business Chat.

Although they do not charge fees or commissions, they do charge fees on certain products. Products like forex, futures have a trading cost, and so do their robo-advisor, financial advisory and any broker-assisted trades investors may use. TD Ameritrade also makes money through interest earned on uninvested cash balances, as well as through order flow when a third-party market maker receives a trade, paying a small fee to the broker.