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The School of TradeStation Basics offers a growing variety of downloadable PDF books on the TradeStation platform as well as information on trading the various market asset classes with TradeStation. These free books are written by our Client Education team and by select industry professionals. The goal is to provide a wide range of additional educational content to help you expand your knowledge and skill with the TradeStation platform.

                        
                            Trading Options with OptionStation
                        
Discover the benefits and risks of options trading. Learn how options are priced, and the factors that determine option valuation. See how basic option positions are built and the risk/reward profiles of various bullish and bearish option strategies. This book also explains and demonstrates the powerful option trading and analysis tools that make up OptionStation.

                            Price: 
                                Free
                        
                            Updated:
                            November, 2011

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                            Getting Started with RadarScreen
                        
This all-new book provides examples of how RadarScreen may be used by a variety of traders, each with a different approach to market analysis and trading. Integrating RadarScreen with other TradeStation tools, analytical styles including top-down, pairs, and multi-interval approaches are highlighted to demonstrate the power and flexibility of RadarScreen. This book is complete with screen pictures taken directly from RadarScreen and TradeStation, bringing the concepts into focus and making it easy for you to learn how to set up your RadarScreen windows to your own specifications.

                            Price: 
                                Free
                        
                            Updated:
                            June, 2005

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                            Trading Forex with TradeStation
                        
The foreign exchange market, also referred to as the "forex" or "FX" market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average turnover much larger than the combined volume of all U.S. equity markets. This introductory primer is designed to help you learn the benefits, terminology, and fundamental concepts of forex trading. In addition, this book showcases the power and flexibility of trading forex through TradeStation, and includes a number of FREE FX trading utilities you can import into TradeStation.
Trading foreign exchange carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for all investors. There is a possibility that you may sustain a loss equal to or greater than your entire investment; therefore, you should not invest or risk money that you cannot afford to lose. You should be aware of all risks associated with foreign exchange trading.

                            Price: 
                                Free
                        
                            Updated:
                            April, 2011

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

No offer or solicitation to buy or sell securities, securities derivative, futures products or off-exchange foreign currency (forex) transactions of any kind, or any type of trading or investment advice, recommendation or strategy, is made, given or in any manner endorsed by any TradeStation affiliate and the information made available on this Website is not an offer or solicitation of any kind in any jurisdiction where any TradeStation affiliate is not authorized to do business, including but not limited to Japan.

Past performance, whether actual or indicated by historical tests of strategies, is no guarantee of future performance or success. There is a possibility that you may sustain a loss equal to or greater than your entire investment regardless of which asset class you trade (equities, options futures or forex); therefore, you should not invest or risk money that you cannot afford to lose. Options trading is not suitable for all investors. Your account application to trade options will be considered and approved or disapproved based on all relevant factors, including your trading experience. Please click here to view the document titled Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options. Before trading any asset class, customers must read the relevant risk disclosure statements on our Other Information page. System access and trade placement and execution may be delayed or fail due to market volatility and volume, quote delays, system and software errors, Internet traffic, outages and other factors.

TradeStation Group, Inc. Affiliates: All proprietary technology in TradeStation is owned by TradeStation Technologies, Inc. Equities, equities options, and commodity futures products and services are offered by TradeStation Securities, Inc., a member of NYSE, FINRA, NFA and SIPC. TradeStation Securities, Inc.’s SIPC coverage is available only for equities and equities options accounts. Forex products and services are offered by TradeStation Forex, Inc., a member of NFA.