thinkorswim Mobile: Trading

Charles Schwab

About this app

Put the power of thinkorswim® right in your pocket with our trading app. Manage your positions; find quotes, charts, and studies; get support; and place trades easily and securely—all right from your phone or tablet. Access products like stocks, options, futures, and forex, and even try out new strategies with our paper trading feature, paperMoney®.

• Trade stocks, options, futures, forex, and more. Create and modify advanced orders and add order conditions quickly and easily.

• Live chat with a trading specialist during support hours—even share your screen without ever leaving the app.

• Live stream programming from our media affiliate, Schwab NetworkTM, and CNBC (U.S., Asia, and Europe), and get in-depth company profiles from Trefis to uncover key insights.

• Practice your trading strategies with real market data, using paperMoney—without risking a dime.

• Scan multi-touch charts with hundreds of studies. Chart drawings will sync within the thinkorswim suite of platforms. Glance at the past, take a look at the present, and model the future when you overlay company and economic events.

• Manage and analyze your positions and view your account balances on all your accounts.

• Track and modify your watchlists, orders, and alerts, including saved orders.

• Check out our expanding library of educational videos.

So what are you waiting for? Level up and download the thinkorswim mobile app and hold the markets in your hands.


Content intended for educational/informational purposes only. Not investment advice, or a recommendation of any security, strategy, or account type.

thinkorswim mobile requires a wireless signal or mobile connection. System availability and response times are subject to market conditions and your mobile connection limitations. Functionality may vary by operating system and/or device.

Investing involves risk, including loss of principal.

The paperMoney® software application is provided for educational purposes only, and allows users to engage in simulated trading with hypothetical funds using live market data. Market activity, trade executions, transaction costs, and other elements presented in paperMoney are simulations only. Simulated performance does not ensure success in a live environment.

Schwab Network is brought to you by Charles Schwab Media Productions Company ("CSMPC"). CSMPC and Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. are separate but affiliated subsidiaries of The Charles Schwab Corporation. CSMPC is not a financial advisor, registered investment advisor, broker-dealer, or futures commission merchant.

Trefis information provided by Insight Guru, a separate, unaffiliated firm. Stock prices are impacted by numerous factors, and estimates of prices in the future are not guaranteed.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Futures, futures options, and forex trading services provided by Charles Schwab Futures and Forex LLC. Trading privileges subject to review and approval. Not all clients will qualify. Forex accounts are not available to residents of Ohio or Arizona.

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. ("Schwab"), Charles Schwab Futures and Forex LLC ("Schwab Futures and Forex"), and Charles Schwab Bank ("Schwab Bank”") are separate but affiliated companies and subsidiaries of The Charles Schwab Corporation. Securities brokerage products are offered by Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (Member SIPC). Schwab Futures and Forex is a CFTC-registered Futures Commission Merchant and a NFA Forex Dealer Member and offers brokerage services for futures, commodities and forex interests. Deposit and lending products and services are offered by Schwab Bank, Member FDIC and an Equal Housing Lender.

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. ("Schwab") and TD Ameritrade, Inc., members SIPC, are separate but affiliated subsidiaries of The Charles Schwab Corporation.

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Ratings and reviews

Obviously, this is only ToS lite, but it is still more useful than the Schwab app, which was not true of the TDA app. Also, there is a bug that somehow prevents the passcode feature added by Schwab from working. I set it up but the app still asks for my password instead. UPDATE: This only happens when the app times out while still logged in. If I log out completely, then log back in, I can do so with my passcode. This is clearly a bug - please fix it ASAP.

***Update-app not working at all currently. No access to my account. Stay away from schwab.*** Since the switch to schwab, I no longer receive alerts. They trigger, but I receive no push notifications. Push notifications are turned on in the app. Kind of an important function to not be working. I've had the issue for over 6 months.

On android the app will crash repeatedly upon launch after an hour or more of inactivity. It will do the spinning blue logo for 5 seconds and crash, this will happen again 3-5 more times each time getting further into loading. Eventually I will see my account behind the overlay screen and the loading bar at top at 1/3 and crash, repeat it gets to 2/3 crash, finally it will turn to a blue bar and might load or crash one more time but after about 5-9 attempts overall it will finally launch.

What's new

Optimizations for a better, faster, stronger mobile experience. More to come.

Peace, love, and happy trading.