bid ask buttons

I'm sorry, I don't know the answer to your question - but if it's because you're leaving TDAmeritrade - good call! I just transferred a brokerage account I had with them to another brokerage. TDA ain't what it used to be - and the Schwab takeover is coming and I don't expect that to help.

 

I am not a frequent trader, so I don't use the buttons that you inquired about, but the last time I signed onto Fidelity, I checked and Fidelity offers the following in their ActiveTraderPro platform:

"There are four prebuilt shortcut buttons, which can be enabled in the Directed Trade Settings:

Buy at Bid/Buy to Cover at Bid
Sell at Ask/Sell Short at Ask
Buy at Ask/Buy to Cover at Ask
Sell at Bid/Sell Short at Bid
Note: The long/short trade action will default to your choice from Settings, which may be accessed in either the Directed Trading General Settings or via the right-click menu."

Additionally, Fidelity also offers CUSTOM shortcut buttons:

"For each custom button, you can set the following attributes:

Label (an up to 10-character name that helps you identify your custom button)
Description (a tool-tip that displays the description of your button when you hover on the custom button)
Action
Order Type
Quantity
Price
Time in Force
Route
Conditions
Type (cash/margin)
Display (for reserve orders)"

Note: The ActiveTraderPro platform is free, but unlike the Fidelity web-based platform, you have to download a client-side app to use it, which requires either Windows or Mac OS.

Hope this helps.

For a LONG time, I had both a TD Ameritrade account and a Fidelity account. For many years, I actually preferred TD Ameritrade, and considered moving my Fidelity account over to TDA. But over the past two or three years, and especially since the Schwab merger was announced - I found TDA to be going down, down, down. I ended up moving everything to Fidelity. Fidelity, for my purposes, has actually gotten better over the same timeframe.

 

I had issues adjusting to the ATP platform as well, but once I realized how easy it is to customize and save custom layouts, I was much more comfortable with it.