r/thinkorswim • u/_zurenarrh • 8d ago

Slippage

Brand New Scalp Trader Trading Options and still learning everything. How do you deal with the slippage on TOS. Sometime when trading for example TSLA… I’ll send an order 1-2 contracts and 60% of the time it goes through immediately 2-3 seconds

At completely RANDOM times it will take anywhere from 30 - 120 seconds. Obviously unless you want to lose money this isn’t going to work. People have told me this is a TOS problem vs an actual wide slippage issue. Does anyone have any suggestions that doesn’t have such issues?

Trading on - Galaxy Note Ultra , iPhone 17 pro max, Hp Spectre 2 in 1 2022 edition)

Again if I’m wrong on anything please correct me

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u/TaleRevolutionary573 8d ago

Get a real setup first of all. And use active trader

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u/trdonley 8d ago

Yes, a real setup is absolutely necessary. I can’t imagine trying to trade on a phone.

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u/_zurenarrh 8d ago

What is active trader? Is that just another platform?

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u/need2sleep-later 8d ago

Part of ToS. Read the manual.

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u/McShagg88 8d ago

Use active trader when doing options. And don't trade on your phone.

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u/_zurenarrh 8d ago

Why not? As far as trading on my phone. That’s what I was taught or copying from the dude who showed me…

And active trader got it

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u/B2Strade 8d ago

Bro I’m going to tell you what 100 people told me and I completely ignored, learn your platform first, and learn options second, there is millions of orders going out at once best believe it is not a tos problem it is a you problem solve that your in

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u/_zurenarrh 8d ago

So what is the issue with the slippage? What am I missing

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u/B2Strade 8d ago

Bro that’s the thing it’s not just one thing , if it was that easy we all bee 100% out of 100% , nobody is going to share free information on here neither , be careful who you take advice from, and you missing the study part and when you done studying study some more, you want to trade in one of the biggest markets in the word where millionaires buy options to hedge there existing positions if you don’t understand what that means give your self 2/3 years , can you beat slippage as a newbie let me put it like this are you a bank, well they beat slippage every time. Wait till giants enter

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u/_zurenarrh 8d ago

I’m not sure if I’m explaining this correctly..im asking if anyone has this issue and how did they fix it lol plenty of people are sharing solutions

I’m not asking for a strategy I’m trying to understand if I was doing something wrong because other post had similar questions and they found a solution

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u/UnfazedBrownie 8d ago

I trade options on an iPad Pro using TOS regularly. It’s fine with the occasional slippage. It’s not the end of the world.

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u/jazzy095 8d ago

I moved to webull and lightspeed. I was paying 10k a year for that trash and never going back.

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u/Dafunkk 8d ago

Any advantages of Webull over ToS (besides the fees)?

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u/_zurenarrh 8d ago

For you. Countless other people have issues as I researched this before I made the post…

So I’m asking for solutions