PLANTATION, Fla., Nov. 17, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TradeStation, the award-winning broker-dealer for stock, options, futures and forex traders, today announced the launch of its all-new OptionStation Pro options trading platform. The launch will coincide with the forthcoming release of TradeStation 9.1, the latest, most powerful version of the company's award-winning trading platform.
OptionStation Pro is an options trading and analysis platform designed with the help of active options traders. Key features include: advanced options charting with interactive 3-D position graphs; advanced order-entry technology to trade options spread strategies with a few simple clicks; configurable spread-specific options chain views; dynamic options pricing and Greek calculations; the ability to build, evaluate and track any options position; and spread-recognition logic that enables traders to easily transform existing positions and create hypothetical ones.
"We are always looking for ways to innovate and bring new trading technology to market, and with the new OptionStation Pro platform, we really hit that mark," said Salomon Sredni, Chief Executive Officer of TradeStation. "OptionStation Pro reflects our commitment to support options traders by developing tools that help reduce the complexities of options trading. Best of all, OptionStation Pro is seamlessly integrated with TradeStation's incredible array of analysis and decision-support tools."
Important Options Disclosure:
Options trading is not suitable for all investors. Please visit TradeStation.com for a link to the document titled Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options. By attending any options presentation offered by TradeStation, you are acknowledging that you will either read the booklet or are otherwise knowledgeable as to its contents. You may also obtain the booklet by writing to TradeStation, 8050 SW 10 Street, Suite 2000, Plantation, FL 33324. Your account application to trade options will be considered and approved or disapproved based on all relevant factors, including your trading experience. Automated trading, as it relates to direct-access electronic placement and execution of equity options trades, requires manual one-click verification before order is sent.
About TradeStation Group, Inc.
TradeStation Group, Inc. through its principal operating subsidiaries, TradeStation Securities, Inc. and TradeStation Forex, Inc. offers the TradeStation analysis and trading platform to the active trader and certain institutional trader markets. The TradeStation platform offers state-of-the-art electronic order execution and enables clients to design, test, optimize, monitor and automate their own custom Equities, Options, Futures and Forex trading strategies.
TradeStation Securities, Inc. (Member NYSE, FINRA, SIPC, NSCC, DTC, OCC & NFA) is a licensed securities broker-dealer and a registered futures commission merchant, and also a member of the Boston Options Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Chicago Stock Exchange, International Securities Exchange and NASDAQ OMX. Its TradeStation Prime Services division, based in New York, seeks to provide prime brokerage services, including securities lending, to small and mid-sized hedge funds and other firms. TradeStation Forex, Inc. (Member NFA) is a Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer (RFED) that exclusively provides the company's Forex brokerage offering. The company's technology subsidiary, TradeStation Technologies, Inc., develops and offers strategy trading software tools and subscription services. Its London-based subsidiary, TradeStation Europe Limited, an FSA-authorized brokerage firm, introduces UK and other European accounts to TradeStation Securities, Inc. and TradeStation Forex, Inc.
About Monex Group, Inc.
Monex Group, Inc. (Tokyo Stock Exchange 1st section: 8698), including its main subsidiary Monex Inc. (Tokyo, Oki Matsumoto, Chairman and CEO), an online securities brokerage, provides advanced and unique financial services to individual investors. Monex Group has been a pioneer among Japanese online securities brokers since the complete liberalization of commissions and fees in stock brokerages in 1999. Monex relentlessly strives to offer its customers in Japan innovative products and services and has established its reputation as a unique independent financial institution group. Its services cover M&A advisory, debt & equity underwriting, asset management focusing on alternative investments, investment education, and other investment banking functions along with an online distribution network to more than 1.2 million individual investors in Japan.
Monex Group aims to globalize its customer base and businesses in addition to enhancing its global product line and services. Specifically, in recent years, Monex has embarked on an ambitious plan to strengthen its products and services globally by focusing its expansion efforts to date on the growing Chinese market, by opening representative offices in Beijing and acquiring BOOM Securities (HK) Limited and its group companies in Hong Kong. As a core element in the further expansion and global diversification of its businesses, it has been seeking opportunities to expand into the U.S. market, which it saw as the missing pillar in achieving a truly global platform. The acquisition of TradeStation provides Monex with an immediate expansion and strong commercial presence in the U.S. online brokerage market.