{"id":427,"date":"2010-11-17T11:31:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T18:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qclsolutions.com\/home\/?p=427"},"modified":"2010-11-18T07:01:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T14:01:55","slug":"question-can-i-automate-my-trading-at-tradestation-for-extended-periods-without-supervision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qclsolutions.com\/home\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"Can I automate my trading at TradeStation, for extended periods without supervision?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: Monitor your trading accounts and orders.<\/p>\n<p>Any mechanical\u00a0system of trading with TradeStation depends on TradeStation interfaces, TradeStation data, TradeStation connectivity, User inputs,\u00a0the Operating System (and often the System Time), potentially other\u00a0applications like Excel, etc. For numerous reasons, it is always possible that orders could be placed, cancelled or unplaced in unintended ways.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThere are several posts on TradeStation forums about the need to monitor strategies. Here is one example: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradestation.com\/Discussions\/Topic_Archive.aspx?Topic_ID=43614\">https:\/\/www.tradestation.com\/Discussions\/Topic_Archive.aspx?Topic_ID=43614<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe example is about an automation setting for stop orders. There is similar language used throughout TradeStation forums for various forms of automation. No form of automation with TradeStation circumvents the need to monitor trading accounts and orders.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSo always have a plan to monitor your trading systems. One way to improve monitoring of your TradeStation Systems is with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.qclsolutions.com\/RealtimeRecords-201.htm\">RealtimeRecords<\/a> Add-On, which can record, email and pass your trading information to custom applications. With a well thought-out plan, good systems can perform to\u00a0their potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: Monitor your trading accounts and orders. Any mechanical\u00a0system of trading with TradeStation depends on TradeStation interfaces, TradeStation data, TradeStation connectivity, User inputs,\u00a0the Operating System (and often the System Time), potentially other\u00a0applications like Excel, etc. For numerous reasons, it is always possible that orders could be placed, cancelled or unplaced in unintended ways. \u00a0 There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qclsolutions.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qclsolutions.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qclsolutions.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qclsolutions.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qclsolutions.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/qclsolutions.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/qclsolutions.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qclsolutions.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qclsolutions.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qclsolutions.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}