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How to Track Trades and Generate Account Reports

How to Track Trades and Generate Account Reports

Tracking performance is a key task for active traders. This article will explain how customers can access and analyze activity in their TradeStation Securities account. Traders can begin at the homepage, TradeStation.com and click the "Sign in" button in the main...

Health Care’s Historic Collapse

Health Care’s Historic Collapse

Downloads are available here. TradeStation's ideas on TradingView are available here. Check out our next "State of the Market," on Monday, 5/19. Sizing Up the Market S&P 500 sitting at 5860-5994 price range from February 27 - March 3. March 25 peak of 5787 is...

What’s Performing as Megacaps Lag?

What’s Performing as Megacaps Lag?

Downloads are available here. TradeStation’s ideas on TradingView are available here. Check out our next “State of the Market,” on Monday, 5/12. Sizing Up the Market S&P 500 consolidates in April 2 range of 5571-5695 Price remains above 10-, 50-day moving average...

Enabling Chart Trading in Chart Analysis with OCO Orders

Enabling Chart Trading in Chart Analysis with OCO Orders

Placing and Managing Trades Directly from the Chart  TradeStation’s chart trading feature lets you interact directly with the market by placing and managing orders right from your chart window. Once enabled, you can place single or multi-leg orders by clicking the...

What Is Event Risk? Why Does It Matter? How Can it Be Managed?

What Is Event Risk? Why Does It Matter? How Can it Be Managed?

Investors face several kinds of risk in the stock market. Today we'll consider one of the most common: event risk. While some events are unexpected, many are known. Stocks often move around certain occurrences, like earnings reports, Federal Reserve meetings or...

Strategies for Managing Risk With Options

Strategies for Managing Risk With Options

Options can be risky because they're complex and typically expire worthless. However they can also help investors limit risk when used correctly. This post will consider four strategies that can reduce losses and enhance gains for ordinary investors. Bullish Call...

Understanding and Managing Sector Risk in Your Portfolio

Understanding and Managing Sector Risk in Your Portfolio

Investors face many potential risks in the stock market. Today we'll focus on the important issue of sector risk. Sectors are broad categories of companies like technology, health care and financials. Because their businesses are often similar, companies in the same...

Stop Losses and Trade Sizes Can Help Manage Risk

Stop Losses and Trade Sizes Can Help Manage Risk

Many beginners think trading is simply a question of buying the right stocks at the right time. But risk management is equally important because it may allow them to survive making bad picks. This article focuses on two key parts of risk management: stop losses and...

Indexes Near Potential Resistance

Indexes Near Potential Resistance

Downloads are available here. Our new MT ES v2 workspace is here. TradeStation’s ideas on TradingView are available here. Check out our next “State of the Market,” on Monday, 5/5. Sizing Up the Market S&P 500 near levels from "Liberation Day" on 4/2 Stochastics...