TradeStation 2000i
Product Overview
 

 
The Standard in Strategy Back-Testing..and Automation Software
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Since its introduction in 1991, TradeStation has become the leading software of choice for over 30,000 of the world's top traders in over 25 countries worldwide. Considered the industry standard and acclaimed by reviewers and users alike, TradeStation continues to win numerous prestigious awards, including Stocks and Commodities' Reader's Choice Award for Best Trading Software six years in a row.

TradeStation is the most powerful software you can own to help you design, test and automate profitable trading strategies. You see, TradeStation helps you discover strategies that consistently get you in--and out--of the market at the right time. It allows you to develop and fine-tune "systems" for buying and selling that are based on objective and historically-proven rules. And this can be crucial to your trading success.

Here's why: 
Most traders agree that fear and greed play a major role in many common trading errors and missed opportunities. And if you've ever stayed in a losing trade hoping to at least break even, or ridden a winning trade long after you should have taken a profit--then you know for a fact that emotional trading decisions can be very costly. 

TradeStation shows you a better way to trade. You see, TradeStation offers you the incredible power to test trading ideas on decades of actual market data, and find strategies that are consistently profitable--before you trade.

So, instead of trying to predict future market activity and react to the latest news, you can follow a time-tested strategy--one that's proven profitable year after year, again and again. And all-new TradeStation 2000i offers you even more power than ever to reveal winning trading strategies. 


It's been rebuilt from the ground up with 

• 32-bit power
• innovative COM architecture
• breakthrough charting and analysis features
• and new ease-of-use. 
  
                                                                     
  
  And for the first time, this power is coupled with the limitless reach and scope of the Internet, too! So, you'll now be able to place online trades without missing a tick on your chart, collect streaming real-time data over the Internet, and even spawn Internet research sites automatically from any price chart. 
  
  Each and every new feature is designed to help you reveal winning trading strategies. You see, whether you're just beginning to trade and don't have a lot of ideas, or you want to test a sophisticated and complex strategy,
  
  TradeStation 2000i guides you through the process of designing and testing your own trading strategy.
                            

Harness the power of TradeStation 2000i, OptionStation 2000i, RadarScreen 2000i plus the reach of the Internet in one seamlessly integrated trading suite!

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TradeStation 2000i now includes SystemBuilder, an all new wizard-like interface that makes designing your own trading systems easier than ever. It actually comes with over 100 entry and exit conditions or "signals" already pre-written for you. So all you have to do is pick one or more conditions to enter the market. Maybe a simple rule like buying when the market crosses below the 10-day moving average, for example. Then you click on one or more conditions to exit the market, and you have your very first trading system.

Each signal is based on a popular technical indicator or trading concept. And if you're not quite sure how each signal works, simply clicking on the "Define" icon brings up a description for you. You'll soon feel comfortable combining more and more signals and creating a potentially limitless number of trading strategies to test. But that's just the beginning...

TradeStation 2000i gives you the power to create your own signals, indicators and systems using EasyLanguage, the industry standard language developed by Omega Research for describing trading ideas.

 EasyLanguage lets you describe your trading strategy using trading terms and English-like statements, so you don't need to be a programming expert. 

Plus, TradeStation 2000i includes over 300 built-in functions, formulas and sample trading systems that you can easily cut, paste and combine to use as the building blocks, with absolutely no limit to the length or complexity of your strategies. 
So, you can choose to include advanced money management techniques, pyramiding strategies and make your strategies as simple or complex as you need. TradeStation 2000i also gives you the most in-depth view of the markets ever offered in a trading software, including never before seen charting and analysis features to inspire your trading ideas.

                                                        

A revolutionary new breakthrough called ActivityBars, actually lets you see all the trading activity "inside the bar". So while other traders only see a small fraction of market activity when viewing a chart--high, low, open and close--you'll actually be able to see the ratio of buyers vs sellers at each point on the bar, where the greatest trading volume occurred, and much more information that's virtually invisible to other traders. And you can develop trading strategies based on this new and exclusive view of the markets, too!

We've also included over 200 of the most popular indicators and studies which you can immediately begin using to identify potentially profitable market patterns--and eventually turn into winning trading systems.

                                                        

All of TradeStation 2000i's indicators include an expert commentary or interpretation that you can view simply by clicking on a bar. This helpful learning tool easily highlights just what is happening on your chart -- at each bar. 

And from the minute you open your TradeStation 2000i box, you'll also have over 30 years of the most reliable historical data to start analyzing historical chart patterns and back-testing your trading strategies. 

That's because TradeStation 2000i comes with HISTORYBANK.COM™ Financial Database, TradeStation Technologies's exclusive and massive database of historical market data on CD included absolutely FREE as a bonus. 

From day one, you'll have all the tools you need to apply your strategy to any chart, and test the performance results going back days, weeks, or even decades. With a few clicks of your mouse, you'll be able to view a historical price chart with buy and sell arrows marking every single trade that would have occurred if you had traded your system.


I'm sure that you're beginning to see the level of detail and power that has made TradeStation 2000i the world standard trading software. 

But there's even more… 

You see, one of the major benefits of system trading with TradeStation 2000i is that you're able to find systems that not only make money, but that you can also reasonably trade. 
For example, a system might make a large profit in one year. But if you knew that you would need $200,000 worth of trading capital to trade it, you might decide it wasn't the right strategy for you. 

Another example might be a profitable system that tends to have a long series of losing trades. These are details you need to know before you trade, and that you can only discover by testing your strategies with TradeStation 2000i.

TradeStation 2000i gives you a System Report with over one hundred revealing performance ratios and graphs to evaluate your strategy's profitability and key characteristics. In other words, it reveals not only whether your system is profitable, but also how it performs, so you'll know whether you can trade it. 

In total, you'll have over ten analysis sections and over 25 graphs that will show you crucial details like the percent of time your system was in the market, the average time your system was in trades, between trades, and even the largest time between winning and losing trades. 

And you'll be able to evaluate any system with a list of established risk-reward ratios, and see how your strategy performs from perspectives such as entry and exit efficiency and stability, and much more. You'll even get a trade-by-trade report listing every trade made during the simulated testing period.

And you can be sure that your simulated testing results are the most accurate due to another TradeStation 2000i exclusive that we call "System Testing to the Tick Level." You see, TradeStation 2000i is the only trading software capable of looking past high, low, open and close data and actually "looking inside the bar" at every single trade that occurred for the test period. 

This level of precision in strategy-back testing is only possible with TradeStation 2000i. And once you've found a good trading system, you can make it even better with TradeStation 2000i's optimization feature. 

TradeStation 2000i lets you ask a number of what-if questions then instantly displays the results for you. For example, let's say your strategy calls for you to buy whenever the market crosses over the 14-bar moving average, but you're wondering if it might perform better using a 9-bar moving average. TradeStation 2000i will automatically test different settings, and instantly show you the performance results for each. That way, you'll be able to make a good strategy even better!

We've shown you how TradeStation 2000i gives you the power to create your own custom trading systems, evaluate them and improve them…but what good is all the testing in the world if you're not able to transform the results into real-life trading success? Here's where TradeStation 2000i's automation feature comes in…

TradeStation 2000i will actively monitor the markets for you tick by tick or end of day and alert you with a visual and sound alert when a profitable buy/sell opportunity arises based on any one or all of your systems. In fact, TradeStation 2000i can even alert you via your alphanumeric pager or even via e-mail! So even if you're away from your computer, you can know when the market makes a move. 

TradeStation 2000i's Tracking Center even generates buy/sell orders and protective stops, tells you when you've reached your profit target, and tracks your open position profit and loss for you!

Custom Alerts  

TradeStation 2000i can alert you to market moves on your screen, using your pager or even via e-mail.

The tracking center keeps track of all your Alerts, Open Orders, Cancelled Orders, and your Open Position at all times.

You'll instantly be able to react to market changes, because you've got TradeStation 2000i monitoring the markets, looking for trading opportunities, faster and more accurately than humanly possible. Plus, with the confidence that comes from having tested your strategy against actual market data, you're much less likely to stray from your proven trading approach due to emotional trading decisions--the downfall of many potentially great traders.
As you've seen, TradeStation 2000i's power lies in its ability to let you develop and historically test virtually any trading strategy, no matter how sophisticated.

TradeStation 2000i also includes hundreds of powerful charting and analysis tools to help you reveal and identify profitable trading opportunities.
We've already briefly discussed ActivityBars and how they let you see market activity that's invisible to most traders. But TradeStation contains many other revealing analysis features that make it an incredibly powerful charting and monitoring package.

And every single indicator, drawing tool, and analysis technique is completely customizable, thanks to the flexibility of EasyLanguage. You can display dozens of quote windows and charts at a time, and overlay any built-in or custom analysis on any chart.You can even choose to create charts based on any period of time, number of transactions, or trade volume on the fly. TradeStation 2000i lets you customize your workspace for effortless analysis. In fact, with TradeStation 2000i's innovative COM technology, you can include a price chart, quote window, and even other applications like Excel spreadsheets or an Internet browser within any workspace. This is just a small glimpse of TradeStation 2000i's powerful features!

Hundreds of Indicators   

TradeStation 2000i includes hundreds of built-in indicators and the incredible power to create your own with EasyLanguage