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TradeStation

Note: The following information has not been updated by the vendor since 03/05/15.

Address:8050 SW 10th Street
Plantation, FL 33324
Phone # for sales: 800 808 9336
Additional Phone #: 954 652 7000
Fax: 954 652 7300
Website: www.TradeStation.com
Click link to request additional product information.
E-mail address: Sales@TradeStation.com

CATEGORY: SOFTWARE

General Information | System Requirements | Market Information | Data |
Data Formats | Charts | Screening and Alerts | Trading Systems |
Options Analysis | Support | Additional Information

General Information TOP

Product name: TradeStation
Initial Price: $99.95 or $199.95 base platform fee
Brief product description: 

TradeStation 8--The intelligent fully-programmable direct-access platform--is designed to help you design your own trading strategies and back-test them to reveal which trading ideas would have worked--based on detailed, realistic historical simulations. Then it gives you the power to fully automate the monitoring and execution of those very trading strategies on your computer. Which means, you can actually program it to trade for you in real-time based on your own strategies.

System Requirements TOP

Operating system(s): 
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows XP
Minimum RAM required: 128 mb
Minimum hard drive space: 75 mb
Minimum modem speed: Greater than 28800
Mouse required?: Yes
CD-ROM used?: No
CD-ROM required?: No
Demo disk available?: No

Market Information TOP

Markets followed: 
  • Stocks
  • Futures
  • Bonds
  • Industrial groups
  • Cash markets
  • Mutual funds
  • Indices
  • Options

Data TOP

Data type(s) utilized: 
  • Intraday data
  • Historical Data
Sources for data: 
  • Provided by the software vendor
Downloader: 
  • Downloader provided
  • Auto-selecting of data to be downloaded
  • Unattended downloading
Data manager: 
  • Split & distribution adjustments
  • Historical database included with purchase
  • Historical database available
  • Refreshes and cleans data automatically

Data Formats TOP

Formats read directly: 
  • TradeStation
Additional formats read directly: 

N/A
Formats read after conversion to program useable data: 
  • TradeStation
Additional formats read via conversion to program useable data: 

N/A

Charts TOP

Chart type(s) utilized: 
  • Bar Charts
  • Candlestick charts
  • Line charts
  • Overlay charts
  • Point & figure
Charting features: 
  • Automatic line angles
  • Bollinger bands
  • Crosshair data readout
  • Customizable icons
  • Cycle rules
  • Drag and drop
  • Dump to graphic formats (e.g., PCX)
  • Fibonacci lines, circles
  • Gann lines, angles, squares
  • Horizontal lines
  • Linear regression lines
  • Log scale
  • Moving average bands
  • Object orientation (formatting chart items)
  • Open interest
  • Pages or chart suites
  • Parallel lines
  • Print charts
  • Scaling: % change
  • Scaling: automatic
  • Scaling: manual
  • Scrolling
  • Space holidays
  • Space weekends
  • Templates
  • Tick volume
  • Trendlines: automatic
  • Trendlines: manual drawing
  • User-defined chart groups
  • Vertical wand
  • Volume
  • Windows: multiple
  • Windows: resizable
  • Write text on charts
Built-in indicators: 
  • Absolute breadth index
  • Advance-decline ratio
  • Accumulation/distribution
  • Accumulation/distribution (Chaikin)
  • Accumulation swing index
  • Advance-decline
  • Advance-decline (Williams)
  • Arms index (TRIN)
  • Average true range
  • Beta
  • Breadth thrust
  • Bollinger band difference
  • Call-put ratios
  • Chaikin oscillator
  • Commodity channel index
  • Commodity selection index
  • Comparative relative strength
  • Correlation analysis
  • Daily volume indicator
  • Directional movement
  • Ease of movement
  • Herrick payoff index
  • Mass index
  • MACD
  • Market facilitation index
  • McClellan oscillator
  • McClellan summation index
  • Median price
  • Money flow
  • Momentum
  • Moving averages: simple
  • Moving averages: exponential
  • Moving averages: other
  • Negative volume indicator
  • New highs, new lows
  • On-balance volume
  • Open TRIN
  • Oscillators
  • Parabolic indicator
  • Percent retracement
  • Positive volume indicator
  • Price volume trend
  • Rate of change
  • Relative strength
  • Speed resistance (fan) lines
  • Spreads
  • Standard deviation
  • Stochastics
  • Studies on studies
  • STIX
  • Swing index
  • Time series forecast
  • Tom DeMark's indicators
  • Trading bands
  • Trade volume index
  • TRIX
  • Typical price
  • Ultimate oscillator
  • Vertical horizontal filter
  • Volatility (Chaikin)
  • Volatility (Wilder)
  • Volume oscillator
  • Weighted spreads
  • Wilder's RSI
  • Williams' %R
  • Zigzag
  • Zoom/unzoom
  • Show indicator values
  • Modify built-in indicators
  • Indicator explanations provided
  • User-defined indicators

Screening and Alerts TOP

Ranking based on: 
  • Indicator and studies
Screening based on: 
  • Drawing Tools (e.g., trendlines)
  • Indicator and studies
  • Technical systems
  • Fundamental data
Alerts based on: 
  • Drawing Tools (e.g., trendlines)
  • Indicator and studies
  • Technical systems
Alerts displayed on charts?: Yes
Alerts displayed in table?: Yes
Screening by individual system per market?: No
Save tables?: Yes
Automated printing of tables?: No

Trading Systems TOP

Trading system features: 
  • Trading systems library provided
  • Stock system testing
  • Futures system testing
  • System development and testing
  • Customize and edit formulas
  • Optimization
  • System performance reports
  • System signals plotted on charts
  • System tracking
  • Plot equity line
  • Testing of money management strategies

Options Analysis TOP

Options analysis features: 
  • Computer-generated strategies
  • Risk measurements (e.g., delta, gamma)
  • Multiple pricing models (e.g., Black-Scholes)
  • Graph volatilities
  • Graph options analysis
  • Projections/forecasting (what-if analysis)

Support TOP

Support features: 
  • Automated installation
  • Online help
  • Manual
  • Phone support
  • Bulletin board
  • Tutorial
Manual page length (if applicable): N/A

Additional Information TOP

Additional comments (please indicate additional indicators, special features and services here): 

N/A

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