Houston TX
Legendary Market Wizard
Experience: Advanced
Platform: TT and Stellar
Broker: Advantage Futures
Trading: Primarily Energy but also a little Equities, Fixed Income, Metals and Crypto.
Frequency: Many times daily
Duration: Never
Posts: 5,049 since Dec 2013
Thanks Given: 4,388
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Does anybody use Tradestation who isn't heavily using their automatation?
While Tradestation's automation is nice and actually very easy it has many weaknesses vs other software. No futures spreads. No futures trade at settlement. Equities and Futures in separate accounts. Can only automate single instruments (unless you use Portfolio Maestro which is actually designed for something completely different). Can't use 'returns' or 'ratios' in any calculations as the way continuous contracts are constructed means the results change every rollover. Also while I would describe myself as a 'light' user the number of data errors I alone have discovered is concerning.
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