If you are a Gold Pass member make sure you enter the special coupon code to get 20% discount off these prices. Gold Pass members get an additional 20% discount off all program and tutorial prices. I anticipate that there will be many trading apps available based on the optimization API, however it is sometimes useful to be able to create something very simple to meets your specific needs.
I also demonstrate some of the features of forms to show the progress of an optimization and to allow the user to specify the symbol to be optimized. Tutorial 100 demonstrates how to create a simple trading app to optimize two strategies across multiple symbols and bar lengths. TradeStation has produced some excellent documentation and training materials to accompany this new feature. This API allows you to perform powerful new kinds of optimization – over multiple symbols, multiple intervals and more.
One of the exciting new features of TradeStation 9.5 is the new Optimization API. The green bar displays the progress of the optimization and the number beneath the buttons show the best net profit so far in the optimization. TradeStation version 9.5 The tutorial 100 app. If you are interested in using the Optimization API with multiple data streams (i.e Data2, Data3 etc), I have written some training materials, including demonstration programs here, available to Gold Pass members.
