TradeStation Help

About the Desktop

When you start TradeStation, you'll be looking at the Desktop. The desktop includes the Menu Bar, Command Line, Tool Bar, Order Bar, Position Graph Bar, TradingApps, Status Bar, and the workspace area. In the Desktop, you'll be working with one or more tabbed workspaces, and it is in these workspaces that you add windows, much like you add sheets to a workbook when working in a spreadsheet application.

Think of the desktop as your overall organizational tool; it enables you to specify overall settings for your workspaces as well as the overall look and feel of TradeStation. You can have multiple Desktops open at once, each having a separate name and different settings.

For example, each desktop enables you to define how many workspaces to remember in your workspace list and globally toggle title bars on and off as well as other global features. The full list of desktop options is listed in Setting the Desktop Preferences.

Related Topics

Creating a Desktop

Saving a Desktop

Working with Multiple Monitors

Switching Between Desktops

Printing a Desktop

Setting the Desktop Preferences 

About the Menu Bar

About the Command Line

About Toolbars

About the Order Bar

About the Position Graph Bar

About the TradingApps Window

About the Status Bar

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