I use them as a pseudo-scanner to set up for the next day. I also keep duplicates that consist of daily charts with a pseudo-strategy that outputs/appends to an Excel file. I also use other kinds of workspaces for other purposes, of course (index analysis, trade review, and the like). One advantage of this method is the ability to save all of your analysis over time, obviously with the most active tradables getting updated the most frequently. I put around 75 or so in an ACTIVE TRADING directory each evening for easy access, and I make new ones whenever a new stock of possible interest comes up. It's also the only practical way to make the most of multiple monitors with TS6.īy now, I have around 250 stock-specific workspaces on disk.

The main workaround that I've been using, like other TS users, is to construct workspaces ahead of time that already contain all of the charts and other objects (L2, etc.) that I'd like to be looking at at once, so that all I need to do is either click between already-loaded workspaces or open up the already-saved workspace. Once you have typed in the symbol, you can make things work fairly quickly for entering and executing actual orders either by clicking on the bid, last, or ask buttons for limit orders, or by utilizing whatever 'advanced' and 'auto' order functions.

Though there is a kind of dwarf L2-linking feature, it's too stiff to be very practical. inandlong's methods are helpful ('global '), but, if you're using order entry, you'll still have to type the symbols into the order bar manually except when using automatic or semi-automatic signals, or when closing a position off the position graphs. I use it all the time right on my TradeStation computer screen to discover relationships within 're very aware of this deficiency over in TS-land. I use a Golden Mean (Fibonacci) Proportional Divider. Then you can simply measure physical distances on the chart to get your Fibonacci relationships instead of having to use a calculator to figure them out. But, on a log chart, the distance between 100 and 200 is the same as the distance from 1000 to 2000 (because 200 is 2x's 1 is 2x's 1000).Īs a result, when measuring distances on a log chart, to find true Fibonacci relationships, you only need a proportional divider set to. On arithmetic charts, the distance between 100 and 200 is 1/10th the distance between 10. The 'magic' of logarithmic (log) charts is that the ratios are built into their design.

Tradestation 10 logarithmic chart