Tradestation 10 - How to Create Custom Sessions in Tradestation

We use custom sessions to define the time periods in which we trade and run our strategies. In the current portfolios as of May 2022, we use 6 custom sessions.

These include:

Crude Pit Session, 9:00 am - 2:30 pm, Monday - Friday

EMINI Day minus 1, 8:30 am - 3:14 pm, Monday - Friday

EURO, 7:00 am - 2:00 pm, Monday - Friday

GRAINS NEW, 8:30 am - 1:15 pm, Monday - Friday

Mirror, 8:29 am - 3:15 pm, Monday - Friday

US STOCK, 8:30 am - 3:15 pm, Monday - Friday

These times are based on exchange time for the market traded.

In this video we show how to manually create or build each custom session in Tradestation 10

A screen shot for each custom session is shown below.

Crude Pit Session - Tradestation 10 Custom Session

EMINI Day minus 1 - Tradestation 10 Custom Session

EURO - Tradestation 10 Custom Session

GRAINS NEW - Tradestation 10 Custom Session

Mirror - Tradestation 10 Custom Session

US STOCK - Tradestation 10 Custom Session

Custom sessions can also be imported. To download the custom session file and learn how to import the custom sessions, visit the following link.

Importing Custom Sessions