Pricing and procedures for EasyLanguage Services for TradeStation

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Billy Fire LLC provides EasyLanguage® programming services for the Tradestation® trading platform.

EasyLanguage programming rates

EasyLanguage development projects are charged at US$ 115 per hour with a minimum billing of 8 hours. We also charge a fee for a data feed required to develop a client program, if required, for as long as the development process takes.

Normally a requirement is shared via e-mail. A specification is produced, including a rough time estimate, and agreed before work is started.

Remember that computers do not understand vague concepts like 'near' or 'touch'. For example, say you have create a horizontal line on your chart at a specific value. You want to create a strategy that will get into the market if the line is 'touched'. Think about the following:

Does the price actually have to get to the line, or could it get close (if so, how close?)?
Does it matter if price breaches the line? If so how much can it breach the line by?
Do you want to take action as soon as price touches the line, or would you rather wait until the end of the bar (by which time price may have breached the line)?

Please spell out any acronyms that you may use. I may know them - but if I don't this could lead to errors or problems.

Steps to a successful EasyLanguage project

1. Think about your requirement and write it down. E-mail it to us. We will ask you for clarification if necessary. Please don't send a program originally created for another platform without a detailed description of what you want the program to do. If you don't know where you want to go then we are probably not going to get there! Be aware of copyright issues. Also send as the name of the Tradestation symbol that you would like to develop 'against.'

2. We will send you our services agreement to sign. Once this is signed and returned with a check for an initial payment on the project, We will begin the project. PLEASE NOTE, we only work on projects on time and materials basis.

3. We will interpret your requirement to more accurately define what we propose to deliver to you. The deliverable for this stage of the project is a specification which will be used for future programming.

4. We will begin programming. We will send you an invoice, weekly for work completed in the previous week.

5. When the project is complete, we will send you a TradeStation ELD file for you to upload into TradeStation on your PC and invoice you for work that has not yet been invoiced.

6. If you require future modifications to the program after delivery, this work will be charged for on a times and materials basis.

Training rates

Training or EasyLanguage consulting advice is provided by phone at a rate of US $115 per hour, payable in 1 hour increments with a minimum of 5 hours.

Payment

Payments may be made by check, payable to Martyn Whittaker or PayPal - I accept PayPal Credit Card balance, Bank Account funded payments.

Projects are payable 50% up front and the remainder on delivery of of the project source code.

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