Paying for a hair treatment after ripping what's left of it out of your scalp over something not working right is far more expensive than a decent commercial platform. If you trade any other way.find a third party platform.

If you trade on news or analyst reports those sections are great. The only thing extremely nice about TWS is the news feeds. Trading options on TWS was okay in general but left me feeling like its more of a beta TOS than something unique and interesting. It has every feature you need but none of them really improve your workflow. Their options chain features are better but still lacking in comparison to competing platforms (TOS for example). For example, putting a futures spread in is completely counter-intuitive. It feels like it was put together by some project manager drawing caricatures of traders on a whiteboard. That may be true, but more likely its a case of Stockholm Syndrome. There will be people who have used it for a dozen years and tell you it is great for what they do. Not because it's objectively bad, but rather because it tries to be absolutely everything to everyone all at once and subsequently is unintuitive on everything. Of all the platforms I've used TWS is hands down the worst.

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