One of TradeStation's most significant advantages is that it enables you to historically test and evaluate your own custom trading strategies before you risk a penny of trading capital.

This breakthrough is possible thanks to a proprietary technology called EasyLanguage®. It lets you describe your ideas using simple, English-like statements, very much in the same way that you would describe them to another trader. It looks like plain English because EasyLanguage was designed to use the "trader's vocabulary" as much as possible. TradeStation also gives you the power to describe sophisticated ideas and strategies having dozens or even hundreds of parameters and conditions. It even allows you to test strategies that contain multiple entry and exit signals, various order types (market, limit, stop orders), pyramiding and money management rules, advanced paramteter optimization, and much more.TradeStation's proprietary EasyLanguage is the industry standard for describing trading strategies. It is used by traders worldwide and by several major trade publications to describe new trading ideas (for example: Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities Magazine, Active Trader Magazine, Futures Magazine, etc.).

TradeStation®2000i's StrategyBuilder™ allows you to develop your own

trading strategy in just a few steps.

Using StrategyBuilder, you're able to combine a virtually limitless number of signals, or buy and sell orders, into a trading strategy. With its point-and-click interface, you'll be able to tap into the strategy development power of TradeStation 2000i to create your own trading strategy.

Pre-Written Signals. TradeStation 2000i comes with about 100 entry and exit conditions or "signals" already pre-written for you. You can combine these pre-written signals in countless combinations to create your own strategies. Each signal is based on a widely-used technical indicator or trading concept. And if you're not quite sure how each signal works, simply clicking on the "Define" icon brings up a description for you. You'll soon feel comfortable combining more and more signals and creating a potentially limitless number of your own trading strategies to test.

Custom Signals. And, your entry and exit conditions can be as simple or as complex as you desire because TradeStation 2000i allows you to customize existing signals and create new ones from scratch using EasyLanguage® . EasyLanguage is the world-standard trading language developed by TradeStation Technologies that uses everyday trading terms to describe trading ideas. With TradeStation 2000i's PowerEditor®, you'll be able to create your own signals in EasyLanguage and add them to any directory in StrategyBuilder. Then you can combine them again and again, easily and quickly, to create many different custom combinations and trading strategies to test.

You may just find a strategy that works for you using the pre-written signals, but with EasyLanguage, you'll be able to write your own signals plus customize many aspects of the program to fit your specific needs….

Only TradeStation®2000i gives you the ability to create your own signals, indicators and strategies using everyday language.

When TradeStation Technologies first pioneered the concept of developing and back-testing custom trading strategies, we also created EasyLanguage, which lets you describe your trading ideas using everyday trading terms and English-like statements. Up until then, the ability to create computerized trading strategies belonged exclusively to software programmers and institutional money managers. With EasyLanguage, you don't need to be a computer wizard to create your own trading strategies in TradeStation 2000i.

PowerEditor.

 

Using EasyLanguage and the PowerEditor®, you'll be able to customize many of the features of the program to fit your particular needs. You'll have the tools you'll need to create your own strategies from scratch. Or, you can use over 300 built-in functions and formulas as building blocks that you can cut, paste and combine to create your own strategies. The intelligent PowerEditor will even automatically color code your trading terms by category so you can easily distinguish the different condition. And, the PowerEditor also includes a multi-file search feature and quick reference guide to EasyLanguage words and functions.

 

The World Standard.

 

EasyLanguage is the world standard trading language. Many of the world's top strategy developers use TradeStation 2000i and the flexibility of EasyLanguage to create and test their own strategies. In fact, EasyLanguage is so widely recognized that trading publications publish the exact EasyLanguage terms and statements for many of the strategies they review so that readers can try them for themselves.

With the flexibility of EasyLanguage, your only limit is your imagination. Add to this the ability to test your strategies and you'll begin to see what separates TradeStation 2000i from the ordinary trading tool….
 

With TradeStation®2000i, you'll have detailed data to see right down to the tick level.

Now independent traders have the ability to test trading strategies using this precision and realism. Why is this so important when developing and testing your trading strategy? Because the more precise and realistic your simulations are, the more likely it is that a historically successful strategy could prove successful in the future. With TradeStation 2000i, you'll be able to look at every trade within a bar and know what happened. And, only TradeStation 2000i can look at the exact order of the trades that occurred during the bar. That way you can determine which entry order would have actually been filled first.

Let's say that you're testing a trading strategy that generates a buy stop order at 100. TradeStation 2000i doesn't just simulate a fill at 100 when the market crosses that price. It is actually capable of looking to see if any trades occurred at that price. If none did, your simulated order is filled at the closest price above 100 at which the market actually traded, and therefore you are being given a more realistic and reliable testing result.

Now, let's say that you're testing a strategy that generates two entry orders on the same day: one a buy stop order at 100 and the other a sell stop order at 98. And the range for that particular day was 97-101. If both price points were hit in a single day, without strategy testing to the tick level there's no way to know for certain if you were short or long at the end of the day.

With HISTORYBANK.COM® Financial Database, you'll be able to back-test your strategies using an extensive historical market database.

From stocks to futures to options, HISTORYBANK.COM contains an in-depth collection of historical data. This level of data was previously available only to institutional level traders who paid thousands of dollars to access such information.

It's yours FREE.

 

HISTORYBANK.COM Financial Database is included FREE on CD with your TradeStation 2000i purchase.

 

Tailored for Strategy Back-Testing.

 

HISTORYBANK.COM is a data source completely tailored to strategy back-testing. After all, your back-testing results are only as good as the data you use. So the data was collected and compiled with that in mind. And, data for stocks, options and futures is specifically tailored to take into account the uniqueness of each market.

 

Extensive Database.

 

HISTORYBANK.COM includes over 30 years of historical market data, including daily price and volume information for virtually every stock and commodity and all major indexes traded in the U.S., as well as a complete historical resource for stock splits of all kinds.

 

Daily Update Service.

 

With the Daily Update Service, you'll have up-to-date information. You'll be able to update your database daily. With a simple click of a button, you'll have updated daily prices, stock split adjustments, symbol name changes, new issues, options and futures data and much more.

It's with this unique collection of historical data that TradeStation 2000i is able to help you design trading strategies. Once you've created your trading strategies and applied them to historical patterns, you can analyze them from many angles using TradeStation 2000i's Strategy Performance Report….

TradeStation®2000i's Strategy Performance Report includes over 200 performance fields and graphs to help you evaluate your strategy's characteristics.

The Strategy Performance Report will help you analyze your strategy from numerous angles. This feature helps you see how your strategy could have performed had you traded it in the past.

10 In-Depth Analysis Sections.

You'll have 10 analysis sections with over 180 performance fields for you to analyze your strategy's simulated historical performance. You'll see the percentage of time your strategy was in the market, as well as the exact number of days, weeks, months and years. You'll know the average time your strategy was in trades, between trades, and even the largest time between winning and losing trades. And, you'll be able to evaluate any strategy with a list of established risk-reward ratios, and see how your strategy performed from perspectives such as entry and exit efficiency and stability. TradeStation 2000i even includes a trade-by-trade report that you can sort by the factors you consider most important, whether that's total percentage of profit, total efficiency rating, run-up or a list of other criteria.

State-of-the-Art Graphs.

Since it's helpful to see this information in more than one format, the Strategy Performance Report feature also includes over 20 graphs for you to use to highlight your strategy's key traits visually. You'll be able to evaluate the simulated historical performance of your forex trading strategies from almost every possible angle.

The TradeStation 2000i Strategy Performance Report will give you a full picture of your trading strategies' simulated historical performance. And, TradeStation 2000i also includes a library of anlalysis tools to not only help you further analyze your strategies, but also to help you uncover new ideas to test….

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