How to use Investors Exchange (IEX) with TD Ameritrade.

Here’s how to route your trades through the Investors Exchange (IEX) with TD Ameritrade:

After logging in, hover over Client Services and select General immediately beneath My Profile:

Client Services > My Profile: General

There, enable Direct routing. It will look like this after enabling it:

Direct routing enabled

Once enabled, expand Additional details for your trade ticket and select IEX from the Routing drop-down menu:

Additional details > Routing: IEX

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EDIT 1:

It is actually possible to set IEX as the default for trade routing. To do so:

Return to General and under Stock order entry click Edit for the Routing setting:

Stock order entry > Routing

Then select IEX from the drop-down menu for Routing:

Routing: IEX

Again, bear in mind that IEX routing is only for regular market orders, so if you ever do want to perform a PM or AH trade, simply route that trade differently under Additional details.

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