The most recent TradeStation version looks like the window at the left. You'll see one of the following two windows, depending on the version of TradeStation you run. (There should be an envelope icon next to each of the four, as shown above.)Ĭonfigure communication with Collective2. Make sure Enable e-mail notification is checked for the four notification types listed above. To make the envelope appear, find the Notification Type (for example, "Strategy Active Order"), click it with your mouse to highlight it, then check the box called Enable e-mail notification. You need to make sure a little envelope icon appears next to the following four lines: Select View (from the TradeStation menu bar), then TradeManager Preferences. (Two screenshots are shown below, one for TradeStation 8, and the other for TradeStation 9.)Įnable e-mail notification in TradeStation.
How to use tradestation code#
Right-click the window containing your EasyLanguage code and select Properties.To tell TradeStation to send emails, do this: When TradeStation tries to send the email, we'll interpret the contents of it, and translate them into a Collective2 trade signal that will be routed into your Collective2 trading system. You need to tell TradeStation to send an email every time it generates a buy or sell signal. Parto Uno: Tell TradeStation to communicate with Collective2 Make sure TradeStation knows to generate "Strategy Orders" For now, try setting up your TradeStation using the simple steps described below. More on this later, in the " Troubleshooting" section. In these cases, you will need to run a helper application on your computer. Note, however, that some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will block attempts to use outside mail servers (which is what C2's signal-capture technology looks like, to the ISP). Instead, you will tell TradeStation to send an email to C2 each time a signal is generated, and C2 will capture that attempt to send an email, and turn it into a C2 signal.
How to use tradestation download#
How to set up the Basic TradeStation/C2 Interfaceįor most people, you will not need to download or run any "helper application" on your computer. If you use TradeStation's Matrix to generate signals, you'll need to use our Advanced Interface. It can interpret signals generated by TradeStation EasyLanguage programs. This page describes the Basic TradeStation - C2 Interface. Using TradeStation's Matrix? You need the Advanced version instead. We have contacted TradeStation but so far they have not allowed us to do this. If you use TradeStation as your broker, you cannot AutoTrade any Collective2 system using the TradeStation brokerage. This technology does not allow you to AutoTrade a Collective2 system at the TradeStation brokerage. Basic TradeStation-Collective2 Interface: What it is not And, just like any other system on Collective2, your system can be AutoTraded at any broker (not just TradeStation), or your subscribers can subscribe and receive signals without AutoTrading. You can automatically submit trades to your Collective2 system. That means you can develop and backtest your system using the very nice TradeStation platform. Your Collective2 trading system, with no human involvement. If you use TradeStation to generate your trades, now youĬan automatically make TradeStation enter your trades into Basic TradeStation-Collective2 Interface: What it is Using TradeStation with Collective2 (Basic Version)įirst, make sure you are in the right place and that you understand what this technology does. Please make sure your current strategies code and your signal names are in accordance with this Collective2 Note: You may also want to read about important changes in TradeStation 9.5 (Update 14)