The TradeStation Support Center on the TradeStation.com website contains many additional EasyLanguage and TradeStation Platform support and training resources designed to help you get up to speed with TradeStation and EasyLanguage quickly.
The TradeStation Support Center may be accessed from the home page for TradeStation Securities at www.tradestation.com, or from the Help menu in the TradeStation platform. From this site you can access all of the following support resources and tools.
Live Training
Providing intensive training, our comprehensive two-day EasyLanguage Bootcamp training course cov- ers everything from the basics of creating indicators and strategies, to understanding and utilizing the more advanced features of EasyLanguage.
Online Seminars
TradeStation’s Online Seminars deliver a live training seminar directly to your home or office. When you login to one of our virtual classrooms, you will both hear and see the instructor's presentation in realtime. Clients may interact with the instructor by submitting questions during the presentation. All online seminars are archived for viewing at a time more convenient for you.
EasyLanguage Library
The EasyLanguage Library is a community forum where TradeStation clients from all over the world come together to share EasyLanguage ideas and EasyLanguage code. Each post in the library contains an analysis technique, concept documentation, help resources, and discussion posts. The library is a great way to learn what other traders are working on, developing new ideas and improving your pro- gramming skills.
Books
TradeStation offers a number of free downloadable books covering EasyLanguage, the TradeStation platform, and general market information.
We also offer a for sale “EasyLanguage Home Study Course” based on our popular live BootCamp course. This work-at-your-own-pace course is an expanded version of the live BootCamp course with 20 additional exercises and examples. If you can’t attend a live BootCamp event, this is the next best thing.
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Third Party Consultants
TradeStation Technologies, Inc. administers a directory of independent, EasyLanguage Specialists who provide custom EasyLanguage programming services and other educational materials to assist you in implementing trading strategies with TradeStation.
The EasyLanguage Specialist directory provides contact information for independent, third-party Easy- Language programmers for the TradeStation platform. Services and rates vary by individual and are established at the sole discretion of each EasyLanguage Specialist. TradeStation does not certify or endorse or recommend any of the persons or companies listed, or their qualifications or expertise.
Community Support Forums
The EasyLanguage community support forums are a free and easy way to ask simple EasyLanguage related question and get EasyLanguage support. The support forums are monitored and questions answered by our customer support team.
You can also view posted question from other traders and programmers and see the responses as well. Often the question you have has already been asked and you can save time using the forum search fea- tures to find topics quickly.
Trader Wiki
This is the place to get and to share knowledge about EasyLanguage. The Trader Wiki is a user-created and user-managed resource. Anyone can create or modify content. If you think information is missing, add it. If you see something that is wrong, correct it. The Trader Wiki is just another additional refer- ence and educational tool to help you become more proficient in EasyLanguage.
The web address for the Trader Wiki is:
https://www.tradestation.com/wiki/display/EasyLanguage/Home
Note: The postings on the Trader Wiki site reflect the personal views of the authors and do not necessar- ily represent the views, positions, or opinions of TradeStation Securities.
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TradeStation EasyLanguage Support
TradeStation users have access to a wide variety of EasyLanguage support resources designed to help both beginners and advanced users learn how to write custom strategies and studies, including EasyLan- guage Support Discussion Forums, the EasyLanguage Library, as well as EasyLanguage Books.
EasyLanguage Consulting Services*
EasyLanguage Support Professionals are available to provide private, phone-based EasyLanguage con- sulting. EasyLanguage Consulting is offered by TradeStation Securities for $150/hr. Please note that there is a minimum charge of $50 for the first 20 minutes.
Phone: (800) 823-2462 or (954) 652-7676 Monday - Friday, 9:30am - 6:30pm ET
*EasyLanguage Consulting Services are technical support services provided by TradeStation Securities, Inc., an affiliate of TradeStation Technologies, the company that developed and owns the technologies in TradeStation. Neither company offers or suggests trading strategies or systems, or investment or trading advice, of any kind. The sole purpose of the service is to help you express, in EasyLanguage, your personal trading strategies. Solely you assume the risk that the technical suggestions you receive in the service accurately represent your trading strategy and the intent or objective of what you are seeking to accomplish with your strategy. Your use of EasyLanguage Consulting Services constitutes a conclusive acknowledgment and agreement by you that you knowingly and fully assume this risk. EasyLanguage is a registered trade- mark of TradeStation Technologies. It is the policy of TradeStation Securities, in the performance of EasyLanguage® consulting services, not to share or publish your specific trading strategies with or for the benefit of other customers.
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