I am moving out of tradezero due to their horrendous and appalling platform and app. i was thinking about trade station. how are they in locating shares for shorting. to be fair and honest tradezero is an excellent broker with great customer service, locates, and execution. however their platforms is the worst i have ever seen. my god
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Tradestation was originally a Futures platform and in for cross asset Forex/Futures/Stocks, but pure stocks it's not the best, one of the students was tasked with finding patterns on charts and didn't know that brokers can show different datasets, out of hours being the most notable, this can impact trades and signals and patterns and even fundamentals. Tradestation used to use a third party for trade reconcilation, they were basically a middle party with a platform, I have a lot of experience with it (plus TT/IB/eSignal) and it works well, you might want to think about splitting out platform from order execution keeping Tradezero, it allows you to reconcile discrepancies. Every broker has a learning curve which costs money, time and effort to reconcile, I always liked eSignal for retail charting especially with Advanced Get as it gets you closer to the people you are trading against, the institutions (which is why most lose capital because you need to be trading alongside them but that's a whole other subject beyond the realms of public forums).