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Known for its advanced trading platform, TradeStation offers a comprehensive suite of tools and resources for traders of all levels. The platform supports trading across multiple asset classes. TradeStation is particularly distinguished by its robust analytical tools and extensive historical market data, which help empower traders to make informed decisions.

Integrate TradeStation using few lines of code

#region imports

from AlgorithmImports import *

#endregion

class BasicTemplateAlgorithm(QCAlgorithm):

def initialize(self):

'''Initialize the data and resolution required, as well as the cash and start-end dates for your algorithm. All algorithms must be initialized.'''

self.set_brokerage_model(BrokerageName.TRADE_STATION)

def on_data(self, data):

'''on_data event is the primary entry point for your algorithm. Each new data point will be pumped in here. data is a Slice object keyed by symbol containing the stock data.'''

pass

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The QuantConnect integration with TradeStation provides a complete, end to end, quantitative trading infrastructure following the entire quant research journey.

Starting with Research, QuantConnect provides robust Jupyter Lab research notebooks to load TradeStation historical data since 2002, curated and updated by our data engineering team. Through partnerships with data vendors, QuantConnect is able to offer the data for download to perform research on-premise.

High accuracy backtesting with full spread and fee modeling can then be performed on premise or in the QuantConnect cloud tapping our 5GHz backtesting machines. You can explore alternative currency datasets to harness their alpha.

Our institutional quality live-trading environment can securely host your strategy and connect with the TradeStation API’s through redundant 10GB dedicated internet connections, helping address security and comfort in your live trading.

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Route orders to tradeStation with a standard API, through QuantConnect’s brokerage agnostic implementation. If you ever want to test TradeStation execution venue you can deploy your strategy to another location without changing a single line of code. QuantConnect fully models supported order types in backtesting, paper trading, and all the way through to the brokerage execution.

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