How to Install & Run Your Strategy in TradeStation & MultiCharts

Your purchase is a ZIP file — find it in your order confirmation email, or sign in and go to My Account → Downloads. Right-click → Extract All first (don’t open files from inside the ZIP). Inside you’ll find:

1. Download the ZIP from your order email or My Account → Downloads.
2. Right-click → Extract All so the files are unzipped.
3. Note where the .eld and .tsw files land (Downloads is fine).

1. In TradeStation, go to File → Import/Export EasyLanguage. (Tip: you can also double-click the .eld.)
2. Choose Import EasyLanguage file (ELD, ELS or ELA), then Next.
3. Click Browse, select the .eld you unzipped, then Next.
4. Review the strategy name and description, click Next, then Finish.

This is where you learn the strategy’s required symbol, timeframe, and Max Bars Back value — you’ll need them in the next steps.

1. Go to Apps → EasyLanguage → File → Open, select the imported strategy, and click Open.
2. Read the comment lines (everything with // in front) at the top — note the symbol, timeframe, and Max Bars Back value.
3. Press F3 to Verify. It should verify with no errors. (If you ever edit the code, re-verify.)

The included .tsw Workspace is a chart already set to the right symbol and timeframe — so you don’t have to build one.

1. Copy the .tsw file into Documents\TradeStation 10.0\Workspaces (under your Windows username). If TradeStation looks elsewhere on your machine, search for the Workspaces folder.
2. In TradeStation, go to File → Open Workspace and open the strategy’s workspace.
3. Confirm the chart’s symbol, timeframe, and first date match the code comments. (Select the chart → Timeframe → Customize to check/adjust.)

1. Select the chart, right-click → Studies → Add Strategy, choose the strategy, and click OK.
2. In the Customize Studies and Strategies window, click Properties for All.
3. Set Maximum number of bars study will reference to the value from the code comments, then OK. (Set too low, the strategy won’t calculate.)
4. Make sure the strategy’s Status is On — if not, click Status to turn it on — then OK.

If every step worked, simulated past trades now appear on the chart. For the full report:

1. Right-click the chart → Data → Strategy Performance Report (or press Shift + Alt + P).

• Inputs: in Customize Studies & Strategies, double-click the strategy line to edit any Input Value (the parameters tagged variable in the code). The defaults are listed in the code if you want to reset — or just remove and re-add the strategy (Step 5).
• Costs: set commissions and slippage to the modeled values shown on the product page (Properties → Costs) so your backtest lines up with ours.

MultiCharts calls strategies “Signals,” and it doesn’t use TradeStation’s .tsw workspace — you’ll set the chart up yourself from the code comments (symbol, timeframe, max bars).

1. Open File → New → PowerLanguage Editor Window.
2. Choose File → Import (or Ctrl+I), tick Signal (and Indicator/Function if present), select the study, OK, then press F3 to compile.
3. If the .eld won’t import (it may be protected), instead do File → New → Signal, paste the code, and press F3.
4. Open a chart for the symbol & timeframe from the comments, choose Insert → Signal, pick the strategy, then use Format → Signals to set the inputs and the max-bars/study reference.

TradeStation can place orders for you when a strategy runs in real time. This is entirely optional and your responsibility.

1. Right-click the chart → Studies → Edit Studies.
2. Under Automation, choose Generate strategy orders… → Automate execution using… → pick Confirmation ON or OFF.

Confirmation OFF means trades execute automatically; Confirmation ON shows a popup to confirm each new trade before it’s placed.

• Don’t see it in Add Strategy? Re-run the import and confirm you imported a Strategy; a restart of TradeStation usually makes it appear.
• Strategy added but the chart’s blank / no trades? Most often the Max Bars Back is too low, or the symbol/timeframe doesn’t match the code comments — fix those first.
• Verify failed? You may be on an older EasyLanguage version — update TradeStation, then re-verify.
• MultiCharts import greyed out or errors? The .eld may be protected; paste the code into a new Signal and compile.
• Numbers don’t match the product page? Check commissions/slippage, interval, history loaded, and Max Bars Back.