Hotkeys, which is a short name for keyboard shortcuts, is a must-have tool for any trader for reacting quickly to market changes. It's generally a lot faster to press a couple of buttons then to navigate with your mouse, and hotkeys are designed to l...

Tape reading has been successfully used by traders since the middle of the 19th century. Time and Sales shows at which price a trade was filled - at the bid, ask or between them. Also, it displays the amount of volume that each trade includes. This i...

MultiCharts has a local data management and storage system called QuoteManager. It collects and locally stores all of the data received from the data feeds. QuoteManager handles all aspects of data maintenance and offers convenient database and manag...

Sometimes data feeds and brokers have different names for the same symbol — and orders can get rejected for incorrect symbol reference. In other programs seeing a chart doesn't mean you can trade from it, but in MultiCharts it's always possible. Trad...

Sometimes there is no time to place entry or exit OCO orders by hand, so we built some automation strategies that you can simply drag-and-drop onto your chart. You can drop them onto any point on the chart, or attach them to a particular order or pos...

This industry-standard tool shows market depth, volume profile and provides one-click trading. MultiCharts’ DOM displays ten price levels each way and allows entry and exit automation directly in the DOM window. See volume at different prices to anal...

The Trade Bar is a standard order entry method that’s been around since the beginning of electronic trading. It’s simple and precise — type in the exact price, choose the order type and buy or sell. The Trade bar has tabs, one for each broker profile...

Trading from a chart is one of the most popular approaches by discretionary traders — for good reason. You can see price movements along with your indicators, and recognize where appropriate levels will be for price action. Visual chart trading keeps...

Visual price levels are much more intuitive than the traditional way of typing in exact orders and prices. You can easily drag-and-drop orders on the price level you want and quickly adjust them by dragging them around. It’s like the visual interface...

Portfolio Trader is an advanced functionality to simulate an auto trade entire portfolios, which can contain 100’s of stocks, futures, and other instruments. Traditionally such powerful tools like Portfolio Trader are often sold as a separate applica...

Even with a winning strategy, just a short delay in order execution can make all the difference. After developing a strategy, the next step is to actually send the orders. The key advantage of automated trading is that it can send orders a lot faster...

Walk-Forward Optimization is an optimization process that addresses the issue of curve fitting in strategy development. What makes walk-forward testing different from other optimization methods is the unique multi-step approach to strategy testing.  ...

A trading strategy is created by taking trading concepts, ideas and observations about historical market behavior and implementing them into a trading system. Whenever you find an optimal solution for doing anything in everyday life, you are actually...

Proper trading system analysis helps find trading systems that work. Successful traders need various performance ratios and descriptive ways of viewing the results. MultiCharts’ strategy performance report is a powerful tool used by CTAs and regular ...

Strategy backtesting is an essential tool to see if your strategy works or not. Backtesting software simulates your strategy on historical data and provides a backtesting report, which allows you to conduct a proper trading system analysis. The 64-bi...

Got an idea for trading the markets? First, you need to check its validity, which requires programming the idea as a set of rules. MultiCharts is perfect for people without advanced programming experience. It uses a coding language designed for tradi...

MultiCharts is often used for discretionary trading, but originally our trading platform was created for trading strategies and automated trading. While discretionary trading is certainly better than trading on intuition alone, automated trading stra...

The market replay is a great way to learn about trading without risking your money. This feature is especially important for discretionary traders who use price patterns and other methods, which are difficult to incorporate into trading models and st...

Scan all securities universe one-by-one with a specified frequency and at the same time monitor hundreds of selected instruments in real-time. Multi-core support and 64-bit architecture make our Market Scanner the most powerful tool for finding tradi...

What is EasyLanguage?EasyLanguage is a programming language that was developed by TradeStation Securities. It is a popular language because it’s easy to learn without specialized training, but at the same time, it is very powerful for trading purpose...