The TradeStation Advantage

The #1 Ranked Trading Platform for Active Traders

As an active trader, first and foremost you need a trading platform designed to help you place better, smarter, strategically-executed trades—not just faster ones. A trading platform that can help you formulate and test trading ideas, identify opportunities in real-time, and then automate the execution of your trades to save you precious seconds.

That’s why TradeStation has quickly become the most highly-acclaimed trading platform for active traders—because it offers you two key capabilities you won’t find anywhere else…

Develop and back-test strategies - before you trade
TradeStation offers you a risk-free method designed to help you pinpoint trading strategies that have worked year after year based on historical data. Its premiere EasyLanguage® technology lets you communicate virtually any custom trading idea imaginable (when you’d like to buy, and when you’d like to sell) to your computer. Then, with just a click of your mouse, it back-tests your idea on up to 20 years of actual, intra-day market data and shows you the simulated results. All the trades you would have placed, your simulated net profit or loss, and much more—before you risk one cent of real trading capital. And that’s only the beginning…

Deep Dicsount Commissions

At TradeStation, we offer you more than low commissions—our pricing is actually designed to save you money based on how active traders trade…

For Equities, we take into account the actual size of your trades. So, while general-purpose brokers charge you the same flat ticket charge—regardless of whether you trade one hundred shares or one thousand shares—we charge you only a small fee for each share you actually trade (a low $1 minimum per trade, no ticket charges and including all ECN fees).