Does one need a tradestation brokerage account to lease the Tradestation software? I'm only interested in the software, not the complete platform.
No but the price is $250 a month here is a link http://www.tradestation.com/fees/subscription_op.shtm I am not affilliated with tradestation
You should take a look at TradersStudio. We currently have a offline product with intra-day backtesting. Our software has portfolio level testing and totally programmable money management,features TradeStation does not have. In addition we can migrate your existing EasyLanguage code to TradersStudio in a few mouse clicks. Best of all this costs you a ONE TIME FEE of $499.00. We have a real time version where you can choose your own broker currently in beta , which will be available to existing customers of our product for a $399.00 upgrade. If you want to see a overview of the product here is the link. http://www.tradersstudio.com/Overview/tabid/68/Default.aspx