Well That's a Bummer

The first negative experience with Think or Swim I've had:

Hello - 

I use your trading platform under paperMoney to test out trades, and I find it extremely valuable.  It has taken me far longer than I expected to approach the stage of being able to fund my account and start trading with real funds, but this is not a reflection on your software at all. On the contrary, I have been consistently impressed with its high level of quality and richness of features.

I would like to kindly request your permission to include a screenshot from your Analyze tab on my new blog from time to time.  I am not sure what restrictions I might violate by doing this without permission, so I felt it would be better to ask first.  Here's a link if you want to see what I've said about thinkorswim so far: 

http://riskofruin.markmccracken.net

I am not writing reviews or detailed descriptions of your software (if I were they would be positive!) - rather I feel a value-at-expiration graph would be much clearer than a bunch of prose describing my option research positions.  Without your permission I can muddle through with Excel, but that is a distant second choice.

Thanks in advance,

Mark McCracken

Mark,

Thank you for the reach out and the kudos.  Unfortunately, we must respectfully deny your request to publish our firm’s copyrighted materials.  This ability is strictly reserved for those companies/individuals with which tos has a Marketing Agreement in place.

We wish you the best of luck in your trading and your endeavor.

Sincerely,

Scott Garland

Scott Garland

Compliance Manager

Scott -

How might I go about securing a Marketing Agreement with ToS?

- Mark McCracken

Mark,

With the recent acquisition by TD Ameritrade all Marketing Agreement activity has been frozen at this time. Sorry.

Sincerely,

Scott Garland

Scott Garland

Compliance Manager

Well, Scott Garland and Scott Garland have spoken (twice each).  No screenshots on the blog.  That's going to make it more difficult to illustrate my point, and it means no free marketing for Think or Swim, but I understand that there's no such thing as good publicity, or something like that.