TradeStation Securities Announces Collaboration with QuantConnect
TradeStation Expands Algorithmic Trading Capabilities with QuantConnect API Integration
Plantation, Fla., September 24, 2024 – TradeStation Securities, Inc. (“TradeStation Securities”), an award-winning*, self-clearing online brokerage firm for trading stocks, options, futures, and futures options, announced its collaboration with QuantConnect, an open-source algorithmic trading platform, offering powerful solutions for quant investors.
TradeStation Securities, a multi-asset class broker-dealer and futures commission merchant with institutional-grade tools and personalized services, offers connectivity for trading in equities, equity options, and futures via the QuantConnect platform. This integration allows mutual customers to create and automate their trading strategies via the QuantConnect platform while executing trades, via an API connection, through their TradeStation Securities brokerage account.
“TradeStation has been a major player in the algorithmic trading tools space for decades, and with this collaboration, we are taking our commitment to empower active and algorithmic traders to a whole new level,” said John Bartleman, President and Chief Executive Officer of TradeStation Securities’ parent company, TradeStation Group, Inc. “By integrating our personalized brokerage services with QuantConnect’s algorithmic trading platform, we’re providing sophisticated traders with powerful tools to develop, backtest, and automate their strategies—enhancing their ability to identify and execute new trading opportunities.”
“We’re thrilled to integrate our technology with TradeStation Securities’ API to offer trading of U.S. stocks, equity options, and futures all through one broker,” said QuantConnect CEO Jared Broad. “With this collaboration, mutual customers can create, manage and analyze trading strategies from the new cross-platform integration. TradeStation Securities is a well-known self-directed online broker-dealer and futures commission merchant, and it’s exciting to know that QuantConnect’s platform will be available to mutual customers.”
About TradeStation Securities, Inc.
Founded in 1995, TradeStation Securities, Inc. (Member NYSE, FINRA, SIPC, NSCC, DTC, OCC, NFA & CME) offers self-clearing equities, options, futures, and futures options brokerage services as a licensed securities broker-dealer and futures commission merchant and is a member of major equities and futures exchanges in the United States.
About TradeStation Group, Inc.
For more than 30 years, the TradeStation Group companies have been pioneering leaders in the online trading industry, committed to delivering the best trading technology, brokerage services, trading education and support to individual and institutional traders. TradeStation’s award-winning trading and analysis platforms offer access to equities, options and futures trading at the major U.S. equities and options exchanges and market centers, as well as the major futures exchanges. TradeStation’s clients have access to the powerful tools needed to design, test, optimize, monitor and automate custom trading strategies, and its mobile and web trading apps allow clients to take the power of the TradeStation trading experience on the go. TradeStation also provides a vast array of educational offerings to help beginning and advanced clients learn online trading and investing skills to help them meet their trading and investment objectives.
TradeStation Securities, Inc. (Member NYSE, FINRA, SIPC, NSCC, DTC, OCC & CME) is a licensed securities broker-dealer and a registered futures commission merchant (FCM), and a member of major stocks, options and futures exchanges in the United States. The company’s technology subsidiary, TradeStation Technologies, Inc., develops and offers strategy trading software tools and subscription services, and hosts the TradingApp® Store. TradeStation Crypto, Inc. offers cryptocurrency brokerage services.
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About QuantConnect
Founded in 2012, QuantConnect is an algorithmic trading platform, empowering a community of over 300,000 quants and developers to design, test, and deploy strategies live in the financial markets. At its core is the LEAN Engine, an open-source infrastructure for algorithmic trading, with a goal to level the playing field for investors, traders and funds of all sizes while enabling quants to focus on their investments.
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