Before trading any asset class, customers must read the relevant risk disclosure statements on our Other Information page. View the document titled Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options.

Online trading is not suitable for all investors. There is a possibility that you may sustain a loss equal to or greater than your entire investment regardless of which asset class you trade (equities, options or futures) therefore, you should not invest or risk money that you cannot afford to lose. Past performance, whether actual or indicated by historical tests of strategies, is no guarantee of future performance or success.

For additional information, please review our stocks and ETFs pricing disclosures, options pricing disclosures, and futures pricing disclosures

In the hardware configuration panel, allocate a minimum of 2 processor cores and 8 GB of RAMįor more documentation and tutorials related to Parallels Desktop 11, click here.ġ.

TradeStation supports the following configuration: Mac OS and the TradeStation PlatformĬlients using Mac OS can run TradeStation through a Windows emulator. Traders that fit this profile are the active TradeStation traders or the user who requires following various active markets at the same time using complex EasyLanguage studies and strategy optimizations. Power UserĪ power user is generally a user utilizing computationally intensive EasyLanguage studies, utilizing large amounts of tick or intraday data (for example, several tick-based charts of highly active symbols such as Google, AAPL or or several strategies with Look-Inside-Bar to the tick level enabled), or generating a large amount of trading activity. The standard user doesn’t rely on processor-intensive analysis techniques running real time on multiple charts.

This type of user generally doesn’t need more than a handful of market data requests and follows specific symbols that are not extremely active. Traders that fit this profile are swing or trend traders. Standard UserĪ standard user is generally anyone who is moderately sensitive to real-time market data updates and makes intraday decisions based on intraday market analysis. Traders that fit this profile are usually position traders or end-of-day traders. The common profile of the minimum requirements user is a TradeStation platform user who is not sensitive to real-time market data updates and makes decisions on market analysis that is not time sensitive. Microsoft Internet Explorer (latest version) or Edge Browser Solid State Drive (SSD) or 7200 RPM drive Quad-core Intel ® or AMD ® processor at 3 GHz or faster Dual-core Intel ® or AMD ® processor at 1.5 GHz or fasterĭual-core Intel ® or AMD ® processor at 2.5 GHz or faster

Tradestation 9.5 system requirements