yup, it's $199 a month without an account and $99 a month with minimum account of $5k and the first month is free.
you can get it for $99 if you open an account for $5000. thats what i just did so i can look at the software. it would be hard to get me to give up ib for my actual trading.
It will cost you $199 amonth without an account. Open a small account and at least save $100 a month. I look at it this way, you save $1200 by having a $5K account.
wrong, If you don't open account with TS, you have to pay: http://www.tradestation.com/fees/subscription_op.shtm Tradestation $199.99+ Radarscreen $59.99+ optionStation $59.99= $320/month If you need to use them all, you can save $220/month or $2640/year by opening account Using TS.8.1 for trading without Radarscreen isn't beneficial
thank you, you guys are fast and heldful. i'm only interested in tradestation to backtest some of my ideas. i have an accnt at ib and am happy w/ them right now. always backtest manually though but now i have more ideas than time to look thru all that numbers... the bad spot: i know jack about programming and so ts seems most friendly.. another question: how about data cost? historical date is free? daily data can i use ib's? thanks/