Tradestation Trial ?

[sweed73 10]

Hi everyone and thanks for having me. Ok I have been trading for about 2 years mainly UK shares and tried my hand at Forex. I am currently deployed in Afghanistan with about 5 months left. I decided when I get back that I wanted to be a lot more systematic with my approach to trading and as such have been reading everything i can about Tradestation.

I have reached the stage where i need to get Hands on and start experimenting with what I am learning , I cant trade from here as the internet when available is just to slow.

What I wanted to know is there anyway I can trial the software to use with historical data ? I believe the software is free with a brokerage account but as i wont be using it to trade for 5 months I will be incurring unwanted costs. Any ideas or help would be most welcome. I see they do 90 days trade free but as I'm a UK citizen i need to post an application, not possible from here

[BlueHorseshoe 10]

Hi everyone and thanks for having me. Ok I have been trading for about 2 years mainly UK shares and tried my hand at Forex. I am currently deployed in Afghanistan with about 5 months left. I decided when I get back that I wanted to be a lot more systematic with my approach to trading and as such have been reading everything i can about Tradestation.

I have reached the stage where i need to get Hands on and start experimenting with what I am learning , I cant trade from here as the internet when available is just to slow.

What I wanted to know is there anyway I can trial the software to use with historical data ? I believe the software is free with a brokerage account but as i wont be using it to trade for 5 months I will be incurring unwanted costs. Any ideas or help would be most welcome. I see they do 90 days trade free but as I'm a UK citizen i need to post an application, not possible from here

 

I can't suggest a way around the problem of being unable to make a paper-based application whilst in Afghanistan, but I believe that a funded Tradestation Forex account is free in perpetuity with no minumum trading requirement. The platform is identical to that for futures, stocks etc, and you get charting for pretty much every stock under the sun, a selection of futures contracts including the @ES, spot forex (obviously), and access to the EasyLanguage development environment which you can use to backtest your trading ideas.

 

If possible, try giving tradestation a call and chatting to one of their sales reps - it's not that hard to twist their arm into getting them to offer you free trials etc as long as you come across as someone who will generate them commissions down the line

 

I hope that's helpful to you.

[Xiao si 10]

Hi everyone and thanks for having me. Ok I have been trading for about 2 years mainly UK shares and tried my hand at Forex. I am currently deployed in Afghanistan with about 5 months left. I decided when I get back that I wanted to be a lot more systematic with my approach to trading and as such have been reading everything i can about Tradestation.

I have reached the stage where i need to get Hands on and start experimenting with what I am learning , I cant trade from here as the internet when available is just to slow.

What I wanted to know is there anyway I can trial the software to use with historical data ? I believe the software is free with a brokerage account but as i wont be using it to trade for 5 months I will be incurring unwanted costs. Any ideas or help would be most welcome. I see they do 90 days trade free but as I'm a UK citizen i need to post an application, not possible from here

 

Why not try MultiCharts - It can use 99% of Easy Language code, and according to others its very similar in logic.

 

Cheers,

 

 

XS

[mohsinqureshii 10]

If you only want a chart then you have many sites where online charts are available. and there are many brokers in UK who offers a demo accounts in MT4. For Demo you obviously do not need to send an application. Just Download any Broker's MT4 Software from their site and you can run your Demo Account as long as you wish. You can see your desired charts their and the Beauty of MT4 Platform is that it can work on very low speed of internet as well.So you can use it easily and comfortably.

Edited April 14, 2012 by mohsinqureshii
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[sweed73 10]

Thanks guys , I am using multicharts on the 30 day trial at the moment and am very happy with it.

My efforts at powerlanguage / easy language are actially working !!

I have subscribed to metastock , Reuters EOD feed it was 24 dollars for the month, however can I get the data !!!!! I updated the symbol list through the downloader, when i try and download it says unknown symbol for them all. Also oncw i have the data ( i have some samples included with the downloader ) how do i get Multicharts to use it. I have set multicharts up to use the metastock folder but no good. The only way i have got it to work is by converting the data from metastock to ascii , then finding the symbol in multicharts and adding ascii data. There must must must be an easier way ??? any help would be fantastic. The way I thought it would work would be i load the symbol list from data provider into multicharts. then every night i download my data which overwrites the existing bringing it up to date. Then when I open a chart in multicharts it opens the latest data ?? antwhere near ??

[Trader1 10]

I think you must open an acount and fund it first, then you automaticly get a papermoney acount also, and you are able to switch between the two acounts from within the platform.

I just opend an acount with Tradestation my self, even though im not up and trading yet, that is how I understand it. cheers:)