Need Replacement for Tradestation

[angelaktariel 10]

Well, today is the day, when I finally got tired of Tradestation it seems, so I am trying to get feedback on what other platforms are out there with good datafeed. I daytrade stocks and ETF's, not a swingtrader, so I don't want to pay $10 per trade. This is what I am getting on TS right now and I just can't work with this.

 

 

Anyway, I am open for suggestions....

 

Thanks very much!

[Tams 20]

if you have custom indicators/strategies written in EasyLanguage, then

MultiChart/InteractiveBrokers is my choice.

Edited April 23, 2009 by Tams

[brownsfan019 17]

Open Ecry will be getting into the equity side of things soon, but not sure when.

[Power555 10]

Angela-

Tradestation is not able to trade equities prior to 8 a.m. The bad tick looks like 7:30 a.m. How did this affect your day?

This sort of thing is often a signal of potential market action and not worth too much emotion.

APPL charts don't show this tick, so it was corrected off.

[angelaktariel 10]

Angela-

Tradestation is not able to trade equities prior to 8 a.m. The bad tick looks like 7:30 a.m. How did this affect your day?

This sort of thing is often a signal of potential market action and not worth too much emotion.

APPL charts don't show this tick, so it was corrected off.

 

Power555, APPL wasn't the only one affected by this, I just showed that one, and there are a lot of people on TS Forum, who have been affected. This happened last week with DIA and SPY as well, and have had issues in the past with connectivity, so I don't feel I am acting on emotions here. I found out, if I reload the chart, it gets corrected, however the matrix is affected, too, therefore I can't trade, nor do I trust today's charts based on this.

 

I am checking out the above options, thanks guys for that and see what else is out there.

[trade-samarai 10]

Hi Angela:

 

My data was off today as well at TS. CME was $1.6 million per share at one point. I was trading AAPL when my screen re-set and and the price was replaced by what appeared to be volume bars.

 

Another alternative platform is NinjaTrader/IB. From what I've seen, and I'm not all that seasoned at trading, all of the data providers and platforms have bad days from time-to-time. LightSpeed is also supposed to be good except under volume duress. As previously stated, you can use your TS indicators, etc., in Multicharts.

[dhelmin 10]

Control R gets rid of that bad tick in a heartbeat

[trade-samarai 10]

"Control R gets rid of that bad tick in a heartbeat"

 

Yesterday, it didn't help, the problem was internal to TS's servers not my platform. TS released an update to solve the problem today.

[bakrob99 11]

If you think there is a platform out there that at some time doesn't have some issues, then please PM me cause I have some land in Florida that I'd like to sell...

[thrunner 10]

I am sure all TS users are aware by now that TS has introduced a network protocol patch that seems to be mandatory by May 1, 2009 that will be required for all builds of TS.

 

Whether this is a good thing remains debatable, because we don't really know what it does. If this is a way for them to throttle clients with excess network bandwidth usage during trading hours, it may be a good thing. If it indiscriminately throttles all bandwidth, it may be bad. Hopefully, this will bring some stability to the network and prevent future outages.

 

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[bakrob99 11]

Seriously, you guys are doing far too much thinking.