Beginner's Guide To E*Trade Pro: Introduction

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E*Trade is a financial services company founded in 1992 that offers online brokerage, investing and related banking solutions for active traders and investors. E*Trade Pro, E*Trade's premier program, designed to meet the needs of active traders, is a customizable trading platform that offers a variety of features including:

  • Direct-access trading to a variety of market centers;

  • Market Depth with streaming Nasdaq TotalView and OpenView data;

  • Live order status, positions and purchasing power;

  • Streaming intraday charts with technical analysis;

  • Streaming Dow Jones news and Briefing.com market analysis;

  • Streaming Top Ten, High/Low Ticker and Market Data Ticker;

  • Four virtual desktops to maximize workspace and

  • Keyboard and other shortcuts for faster order placement
The E*Trade Pro trading platform is available at no additional charge to Pro Elite active trader customers who execute at least 30 stock or options trades during a calendar quarter.

Figure 1: The E*Trade Pro Platform.




See: E*Trade Brokerage



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Jean Folger

Jean Folger
Jean Folger is a technical analyst and system researcher with PowerZone Trading, author of the award-winning book Make Money Trading: How to Build a Winning Trading Business, and a private trader specializing in the e-mini markets. Jean is an affiliate of the Market Technicians Association, a regular contributor to Futures magazine and was previously a real estate broker.

PowerZone Trading develops commercial technical trading indicators and trading systems for the TradeStation, NinjaTrader and MultiCharts trading platforms. The company is a TradeStation EasyLanguage Specialist and Add-on Developer and provides custom programming and consulting services for active traders.

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