PLANTATION, Fla., Sept. 27, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TradeStation, a Monex Group company (TSE:8698), and an award-winning broker-dealer and futures commission merchant, today released an "Election Performance" indicator illustrating the stock market's performance for each four-year presidential election cycle since 1924.
The Election Performance charting indicator is built in EasyLanguage®, the company's proprietary programming language. EasyLanguage® enables TradeStation clients to create custom strategies and indicators for their use in analyzing and trading stocks, ETFs, options, futures and foreign exchange. Developers also create strategies and indicators that clients can access through TradeStation's online trading store, Strategy Network.
"In view of the upcoming election, we thought it would be interesting to examine the stock market's long-term historical performance under various presidential administrations," said Michael Burke, TradeStation's Vice President of Client Training and Education. "TradeStation is an excellent tool for these types of studies, allowing you to create statistical or data-mining projects to measure performance on just about any market idea or concept. We offer a number of pre-built economic data sets – including interest rates, economic indicators and market statistics – that are kept up to date on the TradeStation website."
Drawing on data for the Dow Jones Industrial Index since World War II, the Election Performance 2012 charting indicator shows that the single largest four-year stock market rise occurred from 1993 to 1996 during the first term of President Bill Clinton (D), when the Dow returned a cumulative gain of 95.38%*.
*Past performance, whether actual or indicated by historical tests of strategies, is no guarantee of future performance or success.
About TradeStation Group, Inc.
TradeStation is an award-winning online brokerage firm and trading platform. In March 2012, Barron's magazine, in its annual review of 24 online brokerage firms, awarded TradeStation its highest overall star ranking (4½ stars), as well as Best for Frequent Traders, Best Trading Experience and Technology and Best for International Traders. Also in March 2012, TradeStation won for Best Trading System – Stocks, Best Trading System – Futures, Best Institutional Platform, Best Professional Platform, Best Online Analytical Platform and Best Real-Time Data in the annual Readers' Choice Awards given by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine.
TradeStation Group, Inc., through its principal operating subsidiaries, TradeStation Securities, Inc. and IBFX, Inc., offers analytical and trading platforms to the active trader and certain institutional trader markets. The TradeStation platform offers electronic order execution and enables clients to design, test, optimize, monitor and automate their own custom equities, options, futures and forex trading strategies. TradeStation Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Monex Group, one of the largest online financial services providers in Japan.
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. IBFX, Inc. (Member NFA) is a Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer (RFED) that provides forex brokerage services directly and through its TradeStation Forex division. The company's technology subsidiary, TradeStation Technologies, Inc., develops and offers strategy trading software tools and subscription services. TradeStation Europe Limited, an FSA-authorized brokerage firm, introduces UK and other European accounts to TradeStation Securities, Inc. and IBFX, Inc.