tradestation vs esignal

[riccja]

I am using esignal for trading primarily eminis. I pay about 155 a month for esignal along with trading commisions. With tradestation it appears that if you make 10 round turn emini trades per month the platform fee is waived.....

Am I missing something here ..but it seems that tradestation is much more economical??

Thanks

Rick

[stylist]

if you trade 10 contracts a month you will get the platform for free but it doesnt include the real-time exchange fees so you will have to pay 20$ for the cme and 1$ for nyse to get the trin on your charts
the commission are great for the eminis its 4.72 for round turn per contract and the margin is 1000$ per contract for day trading
I dont know what the fees for esignal im using tradestation and the only disadvantage is that they dont have the dax futures

[spp]

Hello Stylist
I currently use eSignal for intraday MTP signals but am contemplating going to Tradestation largely to save on datafeed costs.

In eSignal I keep open about 20 intraday charts for signals - do you think that would be a problem in Tradestation? How many intraday charts do you keep open in Tradestation and have you had any problems?

Any other pros/cons you can think of from your Tradestation experience?

I appreciate your input
Sean

[mcdirt]

In TradeStation you don't even have to have a chart open - you could use RadarScreen and scan 00's of instruments in real time. For RT, I used eSignal but I believe that TS is technically far superior perhaps Steve can comment.

rgds McDirt

[Steve Griffiths]

Hi Guys,

I have 6 or 7 "workspaces" all open at the same time, each with about 4 charts in each. This allows me to very quickly swap between all the charts I am looking at, see below:

Steve

[Steve Griffiths]

I alos have one workspace with RadarScreen in, which is following lots of markets and time frames (30-40) all at the same time.

So yes, it is very easy to folow lots of markets in TS8.

I hope tihs helps ?

BUT the main drawback is that TS8 only covers the US markets.......... so no FTSE and DAX, etc.

Steve

[stevej]

BUT the main drawback is that TS8 only covers the US markets.......... so no FTSE and DAX, etc.

Steve

Have a look at http://www.tssupport.com/addons/owndata/

HTH

Stevej

[Steve Griffiths]

Hi Steve,

That is not a solution that I would suggest, as it has not been verified and sanctioned by TradeStation.

Steve

[spp]

I appreciate everyone's input.

I've been using eSignal for MTP signals and Interactive Brokers as my broker. Tradestation's commissions seem to be almost identical to IB's but I was interested in saving the datafeed costs (of course not including exchange fees) and having the well thought of TradeStation software thrown in was a plus.

Thanks for all the comments.

Sean