TradeStation Help

Switching Between Desktops

You may want to have multiple open desktops to depending on the way you want to organize windows on your screen or to support more than one monitor attached to your computer. Each desktop may be thought of as a separate instance of TradeStation and opens in its own window and has its own settings for items such as the order bar, toolbars, and desktop display preferences.   

TradeStation enables you to have an unlimited number of desktops open simultaneously, depending on the amount of memory and resources available on your computer. For efficiency, it is always a good idea to have only the necessary number of desktops open.

The following methods allow you to switch from one desktop to another:

• Click on any portion of a desktop window to make it the current desktop.
• From the Windows Taskbar (typically, at the bottom of the Windows screen), click the name of the desktop that you want to be the current desktop.
• Under the Applications tab of the Windows Task Manager, select a desktop name, then click the Switch To button to make it the current desktop.

When you have several desktop windows open on a single screen, you may not be able to see all of the contents at once. Each desktop window can be separately resized and moved as required.