well. in short: don't waste your time with tradestation. the platform is a complete failure, it is useless. i wasted years trying to make ts work but would have been profitably with ninjatrader in 6 months at most, not in one week because i'm quite stubborn and wanted very fast strategies that made several trades a day (and those always lose). - it is impossible to use ts to trade automated. the platform can't handle the workload from the automation engine operating and it crashes in a matter of minutes. - the backtesting engine is useless. all the non minute bar types are useless and even backtests using very large minute bars can end up being useless as well. trailing stops are useless, the platform generates fictitious winning signals on historical data before every gap that are pure fantasy. - the only application from their store i have ever evaluated is optionsx. it is garbage, and i don't think there could be anything of value in the store. i have posted extensively about the failures of ts, i have also explained the keys to developing profitable automated strategies. check out the threads i have created in these fora. and anyone who wants to develop profitable automated strategies needs a backtesting engine that generates accurate results and needs to learn to code. i have been learning to code in c# myself, python is also a good option but you will have to learn to code yourself. i have a number of profitable automated strategies but would never waste my time teaching others how to do that. i don't think there's anyone in the internet with legitimately profitable strategies who charges money to teach others, they are all snake oil salesmen.