TradeStation 2000i offers the latest technological advances to enable traders to design, back-test and automate winning trading strategies in real-time with power never before possible-with exclusive in-depth views of the market, a host of revolutionary charting and analysis tools, and improved ease-of-use.

Traders will find never before available power for virtually every other facet of their trading. Exclusive charting and analysis features to highlight potentially profitable patterns, the ability to create even complex trading systems with point-and-click ease, the most extensive and precise measures for evaluating your system's performance, and state of-the-art monitoring and automation features. Simply put, with TradeStation 2000i, traders now have the most powerful tool ever developed to help them create, test and automate profitable trading systems.

TradeStation 2000i also offers - the power of the Internet with seamless access to 3d party research via Internet Research Smart Links^Tm and the ability to place online trades and via Place Trade functionality with select third party online brokers. In short the industry standard system-testing product is now coupled with the power of the Internet.

• Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) architecture 32-bit architecture - Many limits of the past eliminated (ex: unlimited data can be charted and tested, unlimited EasyLanguage rule size, etc.)
• Support for Multiple CPU computers - Designed to take advantage of power of multiple CPU computers.
• TradeStation designed as a multi-threaded application
• Year 2000 compliant
• Elimination of Security Block with new password algorithm
• Updated Windows 2000 like User Interface

• TradeStation SystemBuilder - Now create and modify even the most complex systems using a point and click interface. TradeStation SystemBuilder comes with over 100 pre-written entry and exit signals that you can combine to create or modify your systems, plus the ability to create and save custom signals written in the industry standard EasyLanguage.
• System Testing to the Tick Level - Revolutionary "look inside a bar" technology allows you to get the most accurate and reliable historical system results by showing you exactly at what point your orders were filled with TradeStation 2000i's exclusive ability to look at every tick.
• Revolutionary System Reporting ~ The new system report offers more than 1 00 new performance measures and over 25 graphs that will allow you to evaluate your system's strengths and weaknesses with more detail than ever before.
• Shows Signal Names above/below system arrows on chart ~ Helps trader identify the profitability of each different entry/exit signal

• No limit on amount of data to be analysed - Unlimited number of bars in a chart. Crucial for studying extended periods of tick and intra-day data (ex: system testing to the tick level)
• ActivityBar Studies - Revolutionary Look Inside a ^bar technology. New customable and exclusive type of analysis reveals how the market moves inside each bar. Traditional analysis is done with Open, High, Low and Close only.
• TradeStation 2000i's ActivityBar Studies show you and the market activity in between by giving you the ability to look 'inside the bars'. Look at aspects of the market for every tick that are invisible to other traders (including price, volume, bid and ask). Fully customisable using EasyLanguage.
• ProbabilityMaps Studies - Revolutionary visual forecasting tool (colour mapping similar to that used by hurricane tracking centre) designed to show probability of price moving to a certain level within a certain time frame. Fully customable using EasyLanguage.
• Indicators, ShowMe, PaintBar, ActivityBar, ProbabilityMap studies and Systems
• Over 200 new pre-written analysis techniques (indicators, signals, etc); many taking advantage of the new features and power of TradeStation 2000i, like plotting to the right of the chart and EasyLanguage SmartStyling. Signals can be used with TradeStation SystemBuilder to build trading systems without needing to write EasyLanguage. These are incredible starting points for system development and a great source of trading ideas, (learn by example). Alert criteria for previous built-in indicators has been updated to be more consistent with traditional interpretation. *Plot Indicators to the right of the chart - Plot indicators into the future using the power and flexibility of EasyLanguage - powerful forecasting feature.
• Inputs used by all applied analysis techniques can be displayed on chart status line Presentation Quality Graphs:
• Supports millions of colours, and pictures (bitmaps) for chart background - Now choose background colours and pictures to place behind your charts for presentation quality graphs
• Global Sticky Vertical Tool  - Displays a vertical time line on each chart. As you drag mouse on one chart, the vertical line moves on all charts in workspace to highlight that time period on all charts.
• Edit Analysis Technique menu selection in short-cut menu - With one click allows user to jump to EasyLanguage PowerEditor and opens appropriate analysis technique
• Data Tool Tips - Click on any items on screen for information on items (Ex: Price level Trendline info, etc)
• Click and Drag chart for scrolling - Allows trader to click on bar chart and drag bars up/down/left/right for visual scrolling. Note: up/down scrolling requires that scaling be set to min/max.
• Automatic Recalculation of Analysis Techniques on Modification to inputs - No longer is there a need to delete and reapply analysis techniques whenever inputs are added, removed, or renamed from an analysis techniques. TradeStation 2000i automatically detects change and recalculates with correct settings. New inputs will automatically be added using their default values. Existing inputs will keep
• their current value (the exception to this is if the input name is the same but the input type has changed: In this case the default value will be used.
• Drawing Tools:
• Snap Mode drawing tools - Automatically adjust to nearest price of bar (O,H,L,C) as you draw line. Insures precise placement
• Any colour trendline or other drawing tool can now be placed on any colour background o Space to the right of the chart - Draw and extend trendlines and all other drawing tools to the right of the last bar revolutionary forecasting tool
• Screen Space
• System arrows only take screen space on subgraph with system applied. Significantly increases display space for other subgraphs.
• Auto-Hide Scroll Bars
• Able to scroll left/right with keyboard cursor (left, right Home, End, PgUp, PgDn) without need of scroll bar
• Support for + and - keys to increase/decrease bar spacing. Also auto-width feature (Tools, Options, General) to increase bar thickness when increasing bar spacing.
• Keyboard Command Language Pop-Up Edit Box - As trader begins to type in command for the active chart window a pop-up edit box accepts commands. Also has history, so trader can click on down arrow of edit box and choose previous command.
• When changing data via data left/right or macro I now change all symbols that had been the same as data 1 to data 1's new symbol. This means if user has the same symbol on a multi-data chart (for example: data 1 is daily and data 2 is weekly), when user changes symbol with macro language for datal, it automatically changes data for data2. This is a time saver and greatly increases the ability to use Workspace Assistant on multi-data charts.
• Alert notifications sent to Tracking Centre. Therefore, alerts can be sent by pager or email.

• No limit to EasyLanguage code size - Write system or analysis techniques as complex as you can imagine.
• EasyLanguage Syntax Colouring - Automatically colours words as you type based on type of type of word (functions, reserved words, inputs, etc)
• EasyLanguage Templates - Guides user as to how to use EasyLanguage to create different types of analysis techniques. Trader can also save his or her own templates.
• Greatly Enhanced EasyLanguage Dictionary - New EasyLanguage Dictionary contains every reserved word in EasyLanguage, Find feature, Define feature that shows on-line help definition of each word, and wizard for identifying any inputs required by the selected reserved word or function.
• Over 1 00 New Functions-including mathematical statistical information and system information for greater analytical power and flexibility.
• Real-time Syntax Error Notification - Monitors what user is typing and automatically detects any unrecognised word and identifies it in real-time with a red underline. Increases ease of use because user is notified of an error just after they typed it rather than several minutes later when they select "Verify" command. Verify command still used to catch syntax errors.
• Smart Indent - Automatically indents user's EasyLanguage code as they type. Great ease of use tool for beginning users because indentation identifies logic flow, and great time saver for advanced users. New Signal writing capability -Users now write Signals, instead of Systems in EasyLanguage. A Signal is an entry or exit condition. They then combine multiple Signals, using new TradeStation System Builder, to create a complete trading system. Greatly increases ease of use and reusability of EasyLanguage code.
• ActivityBar - Create ActivityBar Studies using full power of EasyLanguage Probability
• ProbabilityMap^Tm - Create ProbabilityMap^Tm Studies using full power of EasyLanguage
• EasyLanguageSmartStyling^Tm - Now create multi-dimensional indicators that change in colour and width on a bar by bar basis to show any criteria written with EasyLanguage.
• Improved "Verify" (Syntax Checker) - User has option of enabling a feature that will catch multiple errors on during Verify command. All errors are displayed in a list box with description of problem. User can double-click entry in list box to jump to -error in EasyLanguage rules.
• Hundreds of new reserved words, functions, analysis techniques.
• Right-click Open Function Functionality - Allows user right click most EasyLanguage functions to have EasyLanguage rules immediately displayed on screen
• Value, True/False and String user functions
• Ability to send variables by reference into functions - Allows functions to return more than one value
• Ability to send arrays by value and reference into functions - Allows functions to manage information like never before
• Improved Printing
• New Import/Export Wizard -Makes it much easier for users to exchange EasyLanguage analysis techniques. Also allows TradeStation Technologies, Inc (formerly Omega Research, Inc) Solution Providers to export binary only version of analysis techniques to protect their source code.
• Updated Windows 2000 like User Interface
• Support long input names - Support input names up to 20 characters allowing for more descriptive names thereby improving ease of use

• Internet Research Smart Links^Tm - Now simply right-click and select your favourite Internet research site to get information about the stock in your chart or quote window. Trader is able to add their own Internet Research Smart Links to the program
• Internet Browser window can be created within TradeStation workspace. Supports standard browser functionality.

• Updated Windows 2000 like User Interface
• Supports seamless integration of TradeStation, OptionStation, TradeStation Technologies Solution Provider applications, Excel, and Internet Browser within the TradeStation workspace
• Tab view to rapidly move between workspaces
• Ability to save workspaces to multiple directories and import / export workspaces
• Workspace files can be transferred from one trader to another
• File Send command for automated entailing of a workspace to another TradeStation user.

• Workspace Assistant - Automated analysis of trader's workspaces on an end-of-day basis. Also a batch print assistant.

• New Visual User Interface. Type symbol directly on grid, drag columns or rows, Indicator chooser for drag and drop column selection. Fully Customable.
• Custom QuoteMonitor templates
• Able to display twice as many symbols as in TradeStation 4
• View values as fractions, decimal currency
• Over 70 columns. Many unique to QuoteMonitor
• Open Position Profit/Loss Monitoring
• Alert notifications sent to Tracking Centre. Therefore, alerts can be sent by pager or email.
• Customisable fonts, font sizes, colours, and data tips
• Smart Internet Browsing lets you access Internet Research for highlighted symbol from your favourite 3r party internet research site
• Improved print capability. Better, more flexible printing.

• New Re-Designed Tracking Centre - Combines former Alert Tracking Control Centre and System Tracking Control Centre. All alerts and system notifications are in one place
• Tracking Centre can automatically notify trader via pager and email whenever a new entry is added to one or multiple recipients. WinBeep32 required for Pager, no 3rd party software required for email functionality
• Tabs to easily change from one view to another
• Custom filtering of entries in Tracking Centre by symbol analysis technique and workspace
• All results of former Chart Scanner (now called Workspace Assistant.) are displayed in Tracking Centre
• New filters allow you to view specific symbol, analysis technique or workspace specific messages
• Ability to set individual sounds for different types of attention messages & Information now saved when closing down TradeStation. User can clear information as when desired.
• Fixed problem with too many active orders getting generated. This was introduced in build 455 (last Thursday) with the last on active order tab not updating fix. I inadvertently reset the trade price in the active order structure to the last price. This caused the order comparison function to fail and regenerate the active order. Also explains the problem with cancelled orders showing the wrong order price.

• New Date, Time field for identifying update time
• Ability to sorting contents by column
• Improved control over columns, displayed, colours and formatting in general
• Information now saved when closing down TradeStation. User can clear information as when desired.

• Integrated under the desktop, now you can view your charts and news side-by-side and save the NewsMonitor window inside of workspaces.
• Ability to have multiple search filters in a single NewsMonitor. This will allow you to search for news in more ways.
• Greatly enhanced user interface
• Expanded Search capabilities including multiple keyword and symbol news searches
• Ability to set alert for news matching a specified filter. This alert is then sent to the Tracking Centre

• Completely redesigned using the latest 32-bit Microsoft COM architecture
• Added support for the following datafeeds: D'IN Broadcast, PC Quote Online, PC Quote Broadcast, and Signal
• Online, Signal Broadcast, StockEdge Online, InSite, BMI Broadcast
• Integration with historical database data for strategy back-testing Unlimited Global Data collection
• Automatic adding of symbols through our Symbol Collection Templates for an supported, broadcast data sources thereby allowing an unlimited symbol collection.
• Ability to store unlimited amount of data
• Fully customable data collection settings
• Ability to collect and store field types such as Trade, Bid, and Ask data for every symbol Ability to store stock split and mutual fund distribution history
• Ability to save tick, 1-minute, 5-minute and daily bars for any field type you choose. Bars of any resolution can be easily and quickly built from this data.
• Enhanced Data Storage
• Ability to disregard/omit redundant real-time bids & asks data thereby reducing the amount of hard drive space needed for storage
• Data is stored unadjusted, enabling you to view it as raw or adjusted data. Adjustments for price/volume multipliers, splits and distributions are applied "on-the-fly" as the data is requested from any application.
• Stores symbols settings previously stored in the Symbol Universe thereby allowing the user to edit an settings directly from the portfolio
• Ability to define your own filters for viewing only the symbols you want to see
• Addition of GlobalServer Setup Wizard. This wizard will guide you through setting up your server.
• Automated expiration rules for virtually all futures and options
• Bar building logic is now handled directly by the server, allowing users of the Server API to request bar data directly
• Improved Symbol Dictionary including DTN & PC Quote symbols
• Expiration date rules for virtually all futures and options
• Addition of Wraps for applicable index options
• Addition of Leaps for appropriate stock options
• Ability to have up to 8 stock options on each underlying symbol vs. 2 in TradeStation 4.0
• Additional and improved holiday lists.

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