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Sub Topics in this Category:

  • TS Premium
  • TS Charting
  • TS Scans
  • TS Strategies

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Listed below you will find all the videos and articles included in the TS category.


TS Strategy Guide 24

Just write a few lines of code and TS will plot your theoretical buys and sells right on the chart. Learn how to customize the settings impacting how theoretical orders are entered on the chart. It even provides a “look-inside-bar” option to drill down into a lower time frame to increase precision of theoretical orders.

TradeStation Strategy Guide

TS Keltner Bollinger Band Squeeze MACD 2

What is a KBB Squeeze? When the Bollinger Bands narrow to the point they can ‘squeeze’ inside the bands of the Keltner channel, that stock is in a KBB Squeeze. When price moves out of consolidation zone, the Bollinger Bands expand outside the Keltner Channel, that stock has now fired from the squeeze.


TS Divergence Lines Indicator

Responding to numerous requests from viewers, we are now publishing our first premium indicator for the TS. We realize there are many techniques employed for reading divergence. We tried to be as accommodating as possible using a variety of features in the TS platform. I’m sure you will be very excited to see the new ways these indicators can be customized to fit your needs.


TradeStation Custom Scan High Options Volume

TS Custom Scan High Options Volume 3

We often hear professional traders talk about “unusually high options volume”. This video shows you step-by-step how to build a custom scan in TS. The custom scan will filter through a universe of stocks, reporting all the ones with above average options volume. From start to finish you learn each step required. Starting from a blank workspace, you see how to add a chart and scanner window. Then we examine every element along the way to implementing a fully functional custom scan.