How Does Open E Cry Charting Compare to TradeStation?

[The Bear]

Anybody do a comparison?

[james_gsx]

I downloaded the OEC demo and theres a few things I noticed right off bat compared to TS (I use TS for charts and my broker currently).

1 - TS is a cpu HOG! If you don't have at least 2gb of memory and you want to run more than just TS, forget it. OEC is much better.
2 - Once you customize the OEC charts the way you want, they are very easy to read.
3 - It's really simple to trade from the OEC chart, personally I love this feature for scalping.
4 - You can do a lot more programming and theres a ton of support out there for TS.
5 - TS is slow, and I've been having technical difficulties lately

I like the customizable feature of TS. There are a few things I still need to work out with OEC but I'm sure it won't take long to figure out.

Brownsfan should chime in soon, he has OEC and makes a lot more trades than I do. He will have a lot more info off the top of his head than I will for OEC.

I would recommend though that you download the OEC demo and play it with for a few weeks and see how you like it. Try to customize everything how you like it and just play with it. Also check out this thread if you already haven't.

http://www.traderslaboratory.com/for...d-or-3222.html

[brownsfan019]

Here's my opinion of the two - if you need/want the ability to program, backtest, etc. TS is a nice option. I was with TS for awhile at one point.

If the OEC charts are sufficient for what you need, then OEC offers the complete and total package from start to finish.

In the end it comes down to what you need as OEC does not have everything that TS offers. More and more is added with each upgrade, but there are things not present that some could not trade w/o.