TradeStation Help

About Live Trading

In TradeStation, live trading involves using funded TradeStation accounts to place trades and track actual market positions. In addition, TradeStation clients always have the option of choosing Simulated Trading to place simulated trades and establish simulated positions.

Logging onto Live Trading

See Logging into TradeStation for instructions on selecting Live Trading during the logon process.

Exiting Live Trading

You can exit from live trading in one of several ways, including:

• From the status bar, double-click on Trading: Live to exits from live trading.
• From the Menu bar, click File, select the check marked Work Online to disconnect from the data network which also exits from live trading.
• From the status bar, double-click on Data to disconnect from the data network which also exits from live trading.

Live Trading Indications

There are several ways for you to know whether you are using live trading for placing trades.

• The status bar (at the bottom of the desktop) displays Trading: Live.  
• All trading account numbers begin with something other than 'SIM'.