One thing I can tell you is that the interface from Motivewave to Tradestation can't fetch tick level data, so the best you get are minute bars. I found that very frustrating. But the development team insists that this is a limitation of Tradestation, which isn't true, because I have another software that can fetch tick level data from Tradestation just fine. I do use it though on a daily basis to get my market internals and @VX data for free.