System Requirements
| Minimum Requirements |
Standard User Recommendations |
Power User Recommendations |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Processor | Dual-core Intel® or AMD® processor at 1.5 GHz or faster | Dual-core Intel® or AMD® processor at 2.5 GHz or faster | Quad-core Intel® or AMD® processor at 3 GHz or faster |
| Memory (RAM) | 8 GB | 8 GB or more | 12 GB or more |
| Hard Drive | 5400 RPM drive 400 MB free space or more |
Solid State Drive (SSD) or 7200 RPM drive 600 MB free space or more |
Solid State Drive (SSD) or 7200 RPM drive 1 GB free space or more |
| Video Card (s) | 32-bit graphics support 256 MB for a single monitor |
32-bit graphics support 512 MB for dual monitors |
32-bit graphics support 1 GB or more for multiple monitors |
| Screen Resolution | 1280×1024 pixels or higher | 1680×1050 pixels or higher | 1920×1200 pixels or higher |
| Operating Systems | Windows® 10 64-bit Windows® 10 32-bit |
Windows® 10 64-bit Windows® 10 32-bit |
Windows® 10 64-bit |
| Internet Browser | Microsoft Internet Explorer (latest version) or Edge Browser | Microsoft Internet Explorer (latest version) or Edge Browser | Microsoft Internet Explorer (latest version) or Edge Browser |
| Internet Connection | Broadband Connection 2 Mbps or better (download) |
Broadband Connection 6 Mbps or better (download) |
Broadband Connection 10 Mbps or better (download) |
User Profiles
Minimum Requirements User
The common profile of the minimum requirements user is a TradeStation platform user who is not sensitive to real-time market data updates and makes decisions on market analysis that is not time sensitive. Traders that fit this profile are usually position traders or end-of-day traders.
Standard User
A standard user is generally anyone who is moderately sensitive to real-time market data updates and makes intraday decisions based on intraday market analysis. Traders that fit this profile are swing or trend traders. This type of user generally doesn’t need more than a handful of market data requests and follows specific symbols that are not extremely active. The standard user doesn’t rely on processor-intensive analysis techniques running real time on multiple charts.
Power User
A power user is generally a user utilizing computationally intensive EasyLanguage studies, utilizing large amounts of tick or intraday data (for example, several tick-based charts of highly active symbols such as Google, AAPL or @ES, or several strategies with Look-Inside-Bar to the tick level enabled), or generating a large amount of trading activity. Traders that fit this profile are the active TradeStation traders or the user who requires following various active markets at the same time using complex EasyLanguage studies and strategy optimizations.
Mac OS and the TradeStation Platform
Clients using Mac OS can run TradeStation through a Windows emulator.
TradeStation supports the following configuration:
- Parallels Desktop 11
- In the hardware configuration panel, allocate a minimum of 2 processor cores and 8 GB of RAM
- Windows 10 64-bit
- TradeStation 9.5 Update 12 and above
For more documentation and tutorials related to Parallels Desktop 11, click here.
