re: What platform do you use for buying/trading?

I've been with TD Ameritrade and/or ToS for 20+ years and I'm a very active trader. But I was prevented from making certain option short sells last week, like a lot of other people on most of the major (and minor) platforms.

I have a phone conference on Monday with my TDA account exec. Depending on what explanations I get, along with assurances that it won't happen again, I'll be looking to move my trading account to Dough Trading or somewhere else (I'll keep my vanilla IRAs with TDA). Like TastyTrade/TastyWorks, Dough is a platform built by Tom Sossnoff, who was the founder of Think or Swim, and TDA bought it from him years ago. Unlike TDA and most of the others that engaged in artificially depressing the prices of "meme stocks" and anything else that would harm the over-extended hedge funds, Dough didn't do that. They kept trading open for their clients.

I probably average about 30-40 option trades a week with TDA. But even with that, I realize that I'm small potatoes in the grand scheme of things there. But with so many trades, the $1000 or so they cost me on that one trade does add up for me. So I'll be looking for a more reliable, transparent broker, unless my guy can come up with some really good giggle-proof lies for me on Monday. Dough will probably be where I land. But we'll see.


I'm not endorsing them YET, but here's a link if you want to look around.
Dough Trading