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EDUCATION: Spotting potential opportunities

• On-demand webinars
  • Stock Selection for Traders
    Hear about the basics of stock screening and ways to identify potential trading opportunities. Register for webinar
  • Strategy Center Tutorial
    In one hour, find out how our Strategy Center can help you test trading strategies and scan the market for potential opportunities. Register for webcast
  • Stock Screening Tools for Traders
    We'll show you how our advanced stock screening tools can help narrow your search for better trading opportunities. Register for webcast
  • Profit Taking Strategies for Traders
    Help maximize potential profits with these practical techniques for setting price targets and managing trades. Register for webcast
• Live Webcasts
  • Directional Movement Indicators
    Hear about directional movement indicators +DI, -DI, DX and ADX and how they can help you determine the strength and direction of trends. Register for webcast
  • Versatile Commodity Channel Index
    Find out about some of the many uses of the CCI, including how it can help traders determine when an investment vehicle has been overbought and oversold. Register for webcast
  • Bollinger Bands
    Find out about some of the many uses of Bollinger Bands including how they can help you better evaluate price levels to to assist in pattern recognition and detection. Register for webcast
  • Daily and Weekly Market Updates from Market Edge®: A Tutorial
    This interactive introduction to daily recaps of the day's trading and weekly reports summarizing key market events will familiarize you with these updates and show you how to get the most out of them. Register for webcast

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ADVANCED TOOLS: Faster, easier searches

• Stock Screener
  
  Narrow your search for potential opportunities by creating custom filters using over 140 built-in variable such as Price, High/Lows, Bollinger Bands, Earning, and more. Take the tour >
• Sector Tool
  
  Quickly indentify the indices, sectors, sub-sectors, and individual securities that may be under or over-performing the market with this "top-down" analytical tool. Take the tour >
• Strategy Center
  
  Develop and backtest technical analysis strategies using historial market data, then scan the market in real-time for securities with the best potential to perform well using those strategies. Take the tour >
• Dynamic Ticker
  
  Get on top of momentum shifts as they happen with this graphic chart that visually depicts instant price signals from one trade to the next. Take the tour >

ANALYSIS: Get the expert perspective

• Schwab Equity Ratings
  All Schwab clients have access to SER, our disciplined and proprietary methodology for indentifying stocks we believe will outperform or underperform the market over the next 12 months. Learn More > View sample report >
• Professional-Level Research
  If you're looking for a single, comprehensive source to research potential trading opportunities, our Stock Research can help. You'll find everything from third-party research to our view of top performing sectors, expert opinions, and more. Launch the Stock Research Demo >
• Market Edge
  
  Get daily and weekly market commentary, along with daily buy and sell recommendations from Market Edge®. Start your 30 day free trial now >

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$8.95 per equity trade applies to online trades in eligible accounts once 30 or more qualifying trades are placed in the household in the current calendar quarter or 120 or more qualifying trades are placed over the prior 12 months or once the household balance reaches $1,000,000 or more. If less than 30 qualifying trades are placed in the household per current calendar quarter or 0-119 over the prior 12 months and there is $999,999 or less in household balances, then equity commission rate is $12.95 for first 1000 shares plus $0.015 for each additional share. Direct access trades are charged an additional $0.003 per share above 5000 shares.$8.95 per option trade plus $0.75 per-contract applies to online trades in eligible accounts. Please see the Charles Schwab Pricing Guide for detailed information.

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