Clear Street vs TradeStation on TradersPost

Clear Street and TradeStation differ on 10 of 22 points TradersPost compares: index options, futures, stop orders, trailing stops and 6 more. Both support stocks, stock options, short selling, market orders, limit orders, day orders, good till canceled orders and modify open orders.

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Worth knowing about each

Clear Street

• No Clear Street paper connection.
• Bracket, OTO, and OCO orders are not sent. Clear Street does not link orders to each other.
• Options take market and limit orders with a day or good-til-canceled time in force. Stop and trailing stop orders are for stocks.

View Clear Street connection View Clear Street docs

TradeStation

• TradeStation crypto is not sent through TradersPost.
• Futures take-profit and stop-loss can be set as price offsets, a percentage or a dollar PnL amount.
• Rejected prices often mean TradeStation minMove/tick data disagrees with the price in the signal. Check the quote on the trade.

View TradeStation connection View TradeStation docs

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