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The proprietary TradeStation Network
was built to deliver the speed and reliability that
we know is crucial to the active individual and institutional
clients we serve. From direct electronic connectivity
to trade execution avenues…to streaming real-time
data…to gigabytes of historical data on demand,
redundancy and scalability were built into the areas
that affect performance the most—starting with
the data center buildings…
The TradeStation Network has hundreds of servers. The
two data centers—built to house mission critical
operations, complete with climate controlled, bunker-style
buildings—are stored in two different geographical
locations, Illinois and Texas. Security is monitored
around the clock, with restricted access technology
that includes 24 x 7 uniformed guard services, closed-circuit
television surveillance and palm readers to ensure only
authorized persons enter the facilities.
Naturally, power to the facilities
is redundant and back-up generators stand ready in case
of power grid outages. In addition, within
the data centers proprietary server farm architecture
has been designed with the same level of redundancy
and sophistication…
STOCKS
NASDAQ
•Bloomberg Tradebook
•NASDAQ Market Center
•NYSE Arca
NYSE
•NASDAQ Market Center
•NYSE Arca
•SuperDot
AMEX
•NASDAQ Market Center
•NYSE Arca
•SuperDot
OPTIONS
•AMEX
•BOX
•CBOE
•ISE
•NYSE Arca
•PHLX
FUTURES
•CBOT
•CME
•COMEX
•NYMEX
•OneChicago
STOCKS
•NYSE
•AMEX
•NASDAQ
•Level II/TotalView
•ECN Book Quotes
STOCK OPTIONS
•AMEX
•BOX
•CBOE
•ISE
•NYSE Arca
•PHLX
FUTURES
•CBOT
•CME
•COMEX
•Eurex
•KCBOT
•MGE
•NYBOT
•NYMEX
•OneChicago
FUTURES OPTIONS
•CBOT
•CME
•COMEX
•Eurex
•KCBOT
•MGE
•NYBOT
•NYMEX
FOREX
•18 major currency pairs
INDEX
•Most major US indices
•Deutsche Börse indices
STOCKS
• 6 months of
tick-by-tick data
• Up to 16 years of
Intra-day Data
(minute and above)
• Up to 39 years of
Daily Data
• Nearly 1000
fundamental data
fields, including nearly
500 snapshot fields and
up to 17 years on nearly
500 historical fields.
FUTURES
•6 months of
tick-by-tick data
• Up to 25 years of
Intra-day data
(minute and above)
• Up to 47 years of
Daily Data
FOREX
• 6 months of
tick-by-tick data
• Up to 4 years of
Intra-day data
(minute and above)
• Up to 36 years of
Daily Data
INDEX
• 6 months of
tick-by-tick data
• Up to 24 years of
Intra-day data
(minute and above)
• Up to 75 years of
Daily Data
The hundreds of servers that make up the server farm are
designed with multiple back-up systems. A state-of-the-art
"Status Monitor" constantly monitors the status
of every server in the network, checking for constant
connections. In the case of failure of any one server—either
on a hardware level or software crash of any kind—your
order should be immediately rerouted to another server
in the network. And going even one step further, this
extensive error-checking is backed by multiple, redundant
data and execution lines.
 All connection lines to data servers, ECNs and other electronic marketplaces are redundant
as well, with load balancing technology designed to
manage traffic and avoid single points of failure. And
with TradeStation's intelligent order routing technology,
if one ECN is down at the time your order is placed,
your order should be automatically re-routed to the
next available ECN.
Plus, to help ensure that your data
is delivered fast—and on demand, each data connection
line has access to bandwidth scalability which can exceed
45 times the capacity of a T-3 line. And TradeStation is able to dynamically send you only the specific
symbol data you request on demand. This keeps the data
packets small, which means you should receive the data
at remarkably fast speed. Your strategies,
charts, quotes, market depth screens and all your analysis
tools are designed to update on your screen instantly,
without the need to refresh your screen. And with a
data integrity team constantly monitoring for bad data
points, bad ticks, gaps, etc. you can concentrate more
on trading and less on data maintenance.
TradeStation's ConnectionGuard
technology proactively monitors your constant connection
to the TradeStation Network—continuously checking
for active connectivity. If at any time a connection
is not found, the TradeStation Network is designed to
immediately and continuously attempt to re-establish
a connection, and once successful, quickly update your
market data and restore all interrupted trades and account
messages sent by the TradeStation trade execution server.
That means that if your connection to the TradeStation
Network is interrupted for any reason, it's possible
that you'll automatically be reconnected before you
even realize the connection is lost.
The TradeStation Network is accessible anywhere and
anytime you can log on to the Internet. You can even
use your wireless modem, because TradeStation meets
all wireless IP requirements. So you can log on at home,
at the office or anywhere in the world and pull up your
chart without missing a single tick. You can also choose
to work on your strategies and chart analyses offline
because the data that you request is automatically cached
on to your hard-drive for offline access.
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