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Tutorial 43 – Importing an ELD into TradeStation

Welcome to tutorial 43 in this series of tutorials designed to help you learn EasyLanguage programming skills. EasyLanguage is a programming language that was developed for the Tradestation trading platform that can be used to write programs to help in the technical analysis and trading of foreign exchange, commodities (e.g. the Dow e-mini, S&P e-mini etc), options, and stocks.

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What Is A Tradestation EasyLanguage ELD File?

Tradestation uses a proprietary format to store EasyLanguage programs. These files have an ELD extension. ELDs make it easy to transfer programs from one user to another and ensure that associated functions are bundles within the ELD.

Some of my clients expressed confusion about how to get an ELD into Tradestation and so I created this video to go through this straightforward process.

This is a beginner level tutorial.

Tutorial 43 Video – Importing an ELD (version 8.7)

Importing an ELD (in TradeStation version 10)

If you see any errors in this tutorial – or we have not made something clear, we would be most grateful if you could please let us know. E-mail us at: tutorials@markplex.com. Also, let us know if you have any ideas for new tutorials.

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