Options Market Center
Comprehensive Education. Leading Expertise. Next-Generation Technology.
To help you keep pace with recent trends in the industry and investor sentiment, we have developed the Options Market Center. Grow your business by leveraging this comprehensive service to expand your knowledge base and the tools you use to protect and enhance your clients' portfolios.



The Options Market Center can help you to better manage risk, minimize the effects of volatility, and potentially enhance returns in your clients’ portfolios, by providing you with:
  • Extensive options education
  • Unrivaled and leading support and expertise
  • Next-generation, advanced trading technology
Together, these three resources can help you confidently identify, apply and implement option strategies for your clients. Use your knowledge and proficiency of options to help you grow your business.

Comprehensive Education: The Options Market Center Workshop Series
The Options Market Center Workshop Series addresses everything from the fundamentals to more advanced options strategies. Each live and personalized workshop is designed to help you:
  • Use options strategies designed to potentially enhance portfolio returns
  • Learn how to identify and implement risk-defined options strategies
  • Better communicate with your clients the ways that options can be used to help mitigate risk and potentially minimize the effects of volatility within a portfolio
Leading Expertise: The Strategy Desk
If you are just starting to use options, or if you would like to expand the use of options in your practice, the Strategy Desk can provide helpful guidance. Draw on the expertise of professionals who have been in the options industry for over 20 years – they can assist you with the practical application of options strategies that can help you to:
  • Better manage risk
  • Work to minimize the effects of portfolio volatility
  • Potentially enhance returns
Learn more about the Strategy Desk.

Next-Generation Technology: thinkpipes
A next-generation, innovative, advanced trading platform designed specifically for advisors, thinkpipes is based the thinkorswim platform which helped earn TD Ameritrade 4.5 stars in Barron’s Online Broker Survey*. You can monitor the markets with access to streaming market data, including level II quotes. Place equity, ETF and options orders, while taking advantage of many other tools that thinkpipes also delivers:
  • Extensive charting capabilities
  • Robust portfolio analytics and pre-trade simulation and analysis
  • Real-time risk management
  • Complex options functionality
  • Pre- and post-trade allocation of block trades
Learn more about thinkpipes.

Learn More
If you are interested in learning more about TD Ameritrade Institutional and the Options Market Center, call (800) 934-6124. If you already custody with us, please contact your Relationship Manager.

* TD Ameritrade was evaluated against 23 others in the 2011 Barron’s Online-Broker review, March 14, 2011, and was named “Best for Options Traders”, and one of the “Best for Long-Term Investing” (sharing the highest score with one other broker). TD Ameritrade earned the highest score in the categories of “Research Amenities” and “Portfolio Analysis and Reports”, and shared the highest score with one other broker in “Trade Experience” and “Range of Offerings”. Barron’s is a trademark of Dow Jones & Co., L.P. All rights reserved. .

Options are not suitable for all investors as the special risks inherent to options trading may expose investors to potentially rapid and substantial losses. Options trading subject to TD Ameritrade review and approval. Please read Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options before investing in options.

Spreads and other multiple-leg option strategies can entail substantial transaction costs, including multiple commissions, which may impact any potential return. These are advanced option strategies and can involve greater risk, and more complex risk, than basic options trades.

Access to real-time market data is conditioned on acceptance of the exchange agreements.

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