TradeStation Help

Enabling Automated Execution for a Strategy

Strategy automation provides you with the ability to automatically trade your strategies through your TradeStation account(s).

 Activate a Chart Analysis window containing a strategy. Access using the menu bar Format > Strategies menu sequence and select the Strategies tab. The Format Analysis Techniques & Strategies - Strategies dialog is displayed.

  1. Select the desired strategy whose status is displayed as "On".
  2. Under Automation, select the Generate strategy orders for display in TradeManager's Strategy Orders tab check box.
  3. Select the Automate execution using [account number] account with confirmation check box. The Enable Order Generation dialog is displayed.
  4. Click I Agree to proceed in automatically place and generate strategy orders and continue, or click I Do Not Agree if you do not wish to continue using the automate execution feature.

For equities, you cannot automate execution in a strategy for the same symbol and account where there is the possibility of taking a position in the opposite direction of an already automated execution strategy.

  1. From the Automation section, select Off from the drop-down list to disable receiving order confirmations from the Automate execution using [account #] account with confirmation check box. The Disable Confirmation dialog is displayed. Review the statement concerning fully automated trading with TradeStation.
  2. Click I Agree to continue, or click I Do Not Agree if you do not wish to continue receiving order confirmations when orders are placed.
  3. Optional. Click the account number to select a different account number to use. The Format Account Number - Equities dialog is displayed.
  4. Select On to receive an order confirmation, or Off to not receive an order confirmation prior to orders generated are placed for the selected strategy from the Automate execution using [account #] account with confirmation drop-down list.

 If Off is selected, the Disable Confirmation dialog is displayed. Read the statement concerning fully automated trading with TradeStation. Click I Agree to continue, or click I Do Not Agree if you do not wish to continue using the order confirmation feature.

 Click Close to apply changes.

Related Topic

Format Analysis Techniques & Strategies - Strategies

Disabling Automated Execution for a Strategy