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General Information |
| Product name: TradeStation
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| Initial Price: $99.95 or $199.95 base platform fee
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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.
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System Requirements
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Operating system(s):
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| Minimum RAM required: 128 mb
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| Minimum hard drive space: 75 mb
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| Minimum modem speed: Greater than 28800
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| Mouse required?: Yes
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| CD-ROM used?: No
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| CD-ROM required?: No
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| Demo disk available?: No
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Market Information
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Markets followed:
| Stocks
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Futures
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Bonds
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Industrial groups
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| Cash markets
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Mutual funds
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Indices
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Options
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Data
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Data type(s) utilized:
| Intraday data
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Historical Data
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Sources for data:
| Provided by the software vendor
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Downloader:
| Downloader provided
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Auto-selecting of data to be downloaded
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Unattended downloading
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Data manager:
| Split & distribution adjustments
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Historical database included with purchase
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Historical database available
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Refreshes and cleans data automatically
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Data Formats
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Formats read directly:
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Additional formats read directly:
N/A
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Formats read after conversion to program useable data:
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Additional formats read via conversion to program useable data:
N/A
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Charts
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Chart type(s) utilized:
| Bar Charts
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Candlestick charts
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Line charts
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Overlay charts
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| Point & figure
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Charting features:
| Automatic line angles
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Bollinger bands
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Crosshair data readout
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Customizable icons
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| Cycle rules
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Drag and drop
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Dump to graphic formats (e.g., PCX)
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Fibonacci lines, circles
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| Gann lines, angles, squares
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Horizontal lines
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Linear regression lines
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Log scale
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| Moving average bands
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Object orientation (formatting chart items)
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Open interest
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Pages or chart suites
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| Parallel lines
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Print charts
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Scaling: % change
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Scaling: automatic
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| Scaling: manual
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Scrolling
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Space holidays
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Space weekends
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| Templates
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Tick volume
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Trendlines: automatic
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Trendlines: manual drawing
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| User-defined chart groups
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Vertical wand
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Volume
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Windows: multiple
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| Windows: resizable
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Write text on charts
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Built-in indicators:
| Absolute breadth index
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Advance-decline ratio
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Accumulation/distribution
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Accumulation/distribution (Chaikin)
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| Accumulation swing index
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Advance-decline
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Advance-decline (Williams)
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Arms index (TRIN)
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| Average true range
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Beta
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Breadth thrust
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Bollinger band difference
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| Call-put ratios
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Chaikin oscillator
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Commodity channel index
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Commodity selection index
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| Comparative relative strength
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Correlation analysis
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Daily volume indicator
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Directional movement
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| Ease of movement
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Herrick payoff index
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Mass index
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MACD
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| Market facilitation index
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McClellan oscillator
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McClellan summation index
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Median price
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| Money flow
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Momentum
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Moving averages: simple
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Moving averages: exponential
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| Moving averages: other
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Negative volume indicator
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New highs, new lows
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On-balance volume
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| Open TRIN
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Oscillators
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Parabolic indicator
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Percent retracement
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| Positive volume indicator
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Price volume trend
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Rate of change
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Relative strength
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| Speed resistance (fan) lines
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Spreads
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Standard deviation
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Stochastics
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| Studies on studies
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STIX
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Swing index
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Time series forecast
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| Tom DeMark's indicators
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Trading bands
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Trade volume index
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TRIX
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| Typical price
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Ultimate oscillator
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Vertical horizontal filter
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Volatility (Chaikin)
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| Volatility (Wilder)
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Volume oscillator
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Weighted spreads
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Wilder's RSI
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| Williams' %R
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Zigzag
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Zoom/unzoom
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Show indicator values
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| Modify built-in indicators
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Indicator explanations provided
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User-defined indicators
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Screening and Alerts
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Ranking based on:
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Screening based on:
| Drawing Tools (e.g., trendlines)
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Indicator and studies
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Technical systems
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Fundamental data
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Alerts based on:
| Drawing Tools (e.g., trendlines)
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Indicator and studies
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Technical systems
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| Alerts displayed on charts?: Yes
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| Alerts displayed in table?: Yes
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| Screening by individual system per market?: No
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| Save tables?: Yes
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| Automated printing of tables?: No
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Trading Systems
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Trading system features:
| Trading systems library provided
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Stock system testing
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Futures system testing
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System development and testing
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| Customize and edit formulas
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Optimization
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System performance reports
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System signals plotted on charts
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| System tracking
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Plot equity line
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Testing of money management strategies
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Options Analysis
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Options analysis features:
| Computer-generated strategies
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Risk measurements (e.g., delta, gamma)
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Multiple pricing models (e.g., Black-Scholes)
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Graph volatilities
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| Graph options analysis
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Projections/forecasting (what-if analysis)
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Support
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Support features:
| Automated installation
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Online help
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Manual
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Phone support
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| Bulletin board
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Tutorial
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| Manual page length (if applicable): N/A
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Additional Information
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Additional comments (please indicate additional indicators, special features and services here):
N/A
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