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TradeStation VPS
TradeStation VPS —
two gigabytes a workspace.
TradeStation is a desktop application with a scanner and a charting engine behind it, and it holds about what NinjaTrader does. Two gigabytes a workspace, and rather more if RadarScreen is running.
- .NET installed, TradeStation ready to sign in
- 42 cities — pick the one nearest your broker
- Windows Server licence included
How much RAM does TradeStation need?
It is a .NET desktop platform rather than a browser tab, so it sits at the heavier end. 4 GB runs two workspaces — and if RadarScreen is scanning a few hundred symbols, count another gigabyte for it alone.
Two gigabytes,
one workspace.
TradeStation is closer to NinjaTrader than to a browser platform: .NET underneath, a real charting engine, and a scanner that will use whatever you give it. The rule doubles here, same as it does for NinjaTrader.
One workspace wants two gigabytes. RadarScreen scanning several hundred symbols wants a third on top of that.
RadarScreen is the thing that decides your plan. A handful of charts is undemanding; a scanner watching six hundred symbols with custom indicators on each is the heaviest job on this platform, and it is worth telling us what you scan before choosing.
Which one holds
your terminals.
Straight from the rule. If it turns out wrong we move you up free of charge — you will not be asked to buy a second month to find out.
The High Frequency plan holds the same three as the Best. What you pay the difference for is clock speed — a Ryzen 9 at 5.7 GHz rather than an EPYC core — which matters for a scalping EA and not at all for a swing strategy.
TradeStation is both
your broker and your software.
That is unusual, and it changes what you can and cannot do with the account.
TradeStation
2 GB a workspace
- The broker builds the platform, so the two are never out of step
- EasyLanguage has been stable for thirty years and is well documented
- RadarScreen scans hundreds of symbols live, which few rivals match
- You cannot take it to another broker, because it is the broker
MetaTrader 5
1 GB a terminal
- The same terminal at hundreds of brokers, so you can move
- Lighter, so more of it fits on the same plan
- A large market in ready-made expert advisors
- Nothing approaching RadarScreen for live scanning
EasyLanguage, RadarScreen,
and what they cost you.
The platform and the broker are the same company
With MetaTrader you choose a broker and the software follows. With TradeStation there is no separation: the account and the platform come from one firm, and leaving means leaving both.
The upside is that nothing is ever mismatched — no broker-specific quirks, no waiting for a firm to update its build. The cost is that everything you write in EasyLanguage stays there. It is worth knowing before you spend two years building strategies on it.
RadarScreen is what fills the memory
A workspace with charts is undemanding. RadarScreen is not: it holds live data for every symbol in the list, recalculates your indicators on each tick, and a few hundred rows with custom studies will take a gigabyte on its own.
This is the single thing that decides which plan suits you. Two workspaces and no scanner fits four gigabytes comfortably; one workspace with a six-hundred-symbol scan does not. Tell us what you scan and we will size it rather than guess.
EasyLanguage runs on the machine, not on their servers
Strategies written in EasyLanguage execute in the platform, on whichever computer the platform is running on. Close it and the strategy stops.
That is the whole argument for a VPS here, and it is a stronger one than on the browser platforms: an automated TradeStation strategy genuinely cannot run without a machine that stays on. If your strategies are manual, the case is much weaker and we would rather say so.
Data is part of the account, not a separate feed
Unlike NinjaTrader, TradeStation includes its market data with the account rather than sending you to Rithmic or Kinetick. There are still exchange fees for some products, but there is no third feed to arrange and no separate connection to keep alive.
One fewer moving part on a machine that has to run unattended, which is worth something.
Pick the city your broker sits in.
Not the one you live in. Your remote desktop session does not need to be fast; your orders do.
Any of them can be chosen at checkout, and changed later free of charge once a month. See what each broker answers in →
Before you spend anything.
The questions our support desk actually receives, answered plainly.
Still unsure which plan or which city? Send us your broker's account server name and we will measure it before you buy.
Platform compatibility
MT4 and MT5 are installed for you on request. The rest take a couple of minutes — you have full Administrator access to the machine.