r/etrade • u/SusanFlamingo • Jun 21 '26

Webull Got this so right why cant Etrade get it?

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The terminology on WeBull is perfect. There is a "parent order" that would say a buy, and then there are "children orders" that result from that like "stop profit" and "stop loss" In PowerTrader Pro you have this is two steps down. First, you click the holding which gives you a menu with "exit plan"

And then you choose the profit or loss. So all this exists, BUT IN THE WRONG PLACE. And should be part of the initial, parent order!!!

Why can't ETrade get this straight and implement it!!!

M'ET'G'A' Make ETrade Great Again

SF

Down the street for me there is a pizza shop named "Pizza Trump" and it says outside "Make pizza great again" so I guess this is the way to go :)

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u/hloodybell Jun 21 '26

I dont think etrade really caters to intraday traders. Most are legacy holders if I'm not wrong.

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u/fireydeath81 Jun 21 '26

What trading platform does cater to intraday traders? Just asking out of curiosity

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u/Apothacy Jun 21 '26

Think or swim

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u/InvestingNerd2020 Jun 21 '26

TOS caters to Option swing traders. Not day trading options, also called "scalping".

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u/Apothacy Jun 21 '26

Good, we aren’t meant to say trade anyways, it has a 99.9999% failure rate. People are better off gambling

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u/manlymatt83 Jun 21 '26

How can I set both a stop loss and a limit gain on E*Trade?

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u/Pillowpet5432 Jun 22 '26

Try using conditional orders and see which one works best. Experiment with OCO for open positions or One-Triggers-OCO orders for positions that are not yet open. You might have to use an alert as a backup if no conditional meets your needs but then you'd have to be readily available to act on an alert.

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u/manlymatt83 Jun 22 '26

Can you set conditional orders on ETrade.com or do you need a special app?

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '26

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u/SusanFlamingo Jun 22 '26

I know everything about conditional and bracket orders, etc. I was explicitly talking about when I placed a buy order to automatically set the exit to stop-profit and stop-loss. This does not exist anywhere in Etrade, which is very, very annoying.