TradeStation Help

About Windows

In the Desktop you create new workspaces and add windows to these workspaces. This allows you to view and analyze Chart Analysis windows, RadarScreen windows, News windows, TradingApps, EasyLanguage documents, and more. For all open workspaces, you can also receive alert information and monitor strategy orders. Each of these windows is important and, when used properly, provides you with powerful trading tools.

You can have many windows open at the same time. There are several ways you can arrange windows to make it easy to move from one window to another. The topics below cover how to work with windows; for example, how to resize and reposition windows and how to turn title bars on and off as well as how to minimize, restore, and maximize windows.

The TradeStation Desktop has several main window types:

• TradingApp - Trading and analysis tools, such as the build-in Chart Analysis, Matrix, or RadarScreen windows, as well as custom TradingApp windows created with EasyLanguage.
• Report - The windows that hold reports, such as the Strategy Performance Report.
• Embedded document - The windows used to run third-party applications such as Microsoft Word.

 The topics listed below do not cover working with report windows in your Desktop (for example, the Optimization Report). For information on report windows, see the documentation for each specific report.

Related Topics

Making a Window Active

Resizing a Window

Moving a Window

Maximizing, Minimizing, and Restoring Windows

Refreshing TradeStation Windows

Arranging Windows

Closing a Window