Easy Language

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EasyLanguage®

With TradeStation Global, and for the first time, traders can seamlessly apply the power of EasyLanguage® coding to Interactive Brokers’ worldwide market data and execution capabilities.

Discover an intuitive coding language designed by traders for traders

Meet TradeStation’s full-featured programming language, designed to create powerful trading indicators, strategies and custom trading applications.

Unlimited Control

With thousands of built-in keywords, functions, and properties, traders can design and create virtually any market analysis, scanning, or order management tool.

By Traders, For Traders

EasyLanguage® is designed by traders, for traders, to describe trading ideas in plain English-like expressions using trading terms and phrases traders are already familiar with.

Custom Trading Indicators

By combining common trading terms with conditional rules and historical price data, EasyLanguage® makes it possible to create powerful custom indicators in a straightforward and intuitive manner.

Flexible Coding

The TradeStation Global platform is powered by EasyLanguage®; every built-in strategy and indicator is written in EasyLanguage® and the programming code for each of them is easily accessible to view and modify.

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Tap into Third-party Resources

In addition to the easily modifiable code, there are hundreds of additional EasyLanguage® strategies, indicators, and functions that are readily available from various third-party developers.

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EasyLanguage® unleashes the power of the TradeStation Global platform by extending the ways you can view global real-time and historical market data, as well as account, position, and trade manager information.

Translate your trading ideas into analysis techniques and strategies

The types of trading and technical analysis tools you can code for TradeStation Global include:

  • Indicators
  • ShowMe Studies
  • PaintBar Studies
  • ActivityBar Studies
  • ProbabilityMap Studies
  • Trading Strategies
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TradeStation Global can store an unlimited number of these analysis techniques, and allows the easy import and export of EasyLanguage® studies from one computer to another.

Even those traders who don't intend to write complex indicators or strategies using EasyLanguage® can benefit from a little EasyLanguage® knowledge.

Many indicators and strategies have input parameters that utilize simple EasyLanguage® statements.

EasyLanguage® makes it possible to modify alert and trading criteria or add additional calculations

VIDEOS

See it in Action

The Art of TradeStation: Introduction to EasyLanguage
The purpose of this webinar is to introduce you to the basic concepts and constructs of the EasyLanguage programming language. You will learn basic syntax and punctuation rules, how to get the most flexibility out of built-in indicators and strategies, modify alert criteria, and much more.

Learning TradeStation - Introduction to EasyLanguage
In this video you wil learn how to: Use the Development Environment Create a ShowMe Create an Indicator Find Functions Using the Dictionary Create a Strategy Modify Built-in Indicators Create Studies for RadarScreen

The Art of TradeStation: Customizing Studies Without Programming
TradeStation supplies many indicators, studies, and strategies that you can customize on the fly without learning much EasyLanguage. These Studies are designed for you to insert a simple formula or function and have the analysis available instantly. And these can be used in charting and RadarScreen®. Learn how to use these Analysis Techniques in this video.

Discover the Platform

TradeStation platform puts powerful tools into the hands of traders and investors – helping to level the playing field in the competitive world of trading and investing.

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Advanced Charting >

Award*-winning charting tools for the serious trader.

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RadarScreen® >

Find trading opportunities as they happen in real time.

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The Matrix >

The “Swiss Army knife” of trading tools.

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EasyLanguage® >

Translate your trading ideas into analysis techniques and strategies.

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