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Quote from geoMEAN:

Tradestation is great as a testing platform if you are a programatic trader, but their unrelentless inepititude as a company and the unreliability of their platform has finally caused me to start looking elsewhere.

As of 5/1/09 they are retiring their ONLY WORKING STABLE RELEASE of their platform, version 8.3.

8.4, 8.5, and 8.6 all have their problems that make it impossible to programatically trade in real time with code.

They have not responded officially to the multiple pleas from advanced customers not to retire 8.3.

The really annoying thing is that they only gave us a week's notice that 8.3 would be retired.

I'm really starting to look elsewhere. I partially left them as a broker and just used them for data a long time ago, but now I am looking for a full solution-- brokerage and data that fits my needs.

Quote from geoMEAN:

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I could leave Tradestation forever if this was implemented well! Exciting news, even if I do have to wait a few months for NT7.

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geoMEAN, I agree with you. I have also switched over from TradeStation to TradersStudio. Only one thing intrigues me is that why does TradeStation keep releasing versions while the actual fact is that old problems remain in the new ones or the new versions are not error free? I wonder as to how they are called versions? In what was is 8.6 is better than others?

Many users must be really regretting to know that such a fine product is losing its shine slowly.