PLANTATION, Fla., Feb. 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TradeStation, a Monex Group company and award-winning* online broker-dealer and futures commission merchant, received the award for #1 Platform Technology for the sixth consecutive year in the 2018 Online Broker Review conducted by StockBrokers.com.
TradeStation’s desktop platform “encompasses everything an active trader could desire, and then some,” wrote StockBrokers.com.
In addition, TradeStation received a StockBrokers.com a “Best in Class” rating in the Order Execution category for the first time, a “Best in Class” rating in the Customer Service category for the second time, a “Best in Class” rating in the Options Trading category for the sixth year in a row, a “Best in Class” rating in the Platform & Tools category for the seventh consecutive year and a “Best in Class” rating in the Active Trading category for the eighth year in a row.
While noting that TradeStation’s desktop platform “leads the industry in sophistication,” StockBrokers.com also lauded TradeStation’s mobile and web trading applications. “TradeStation's mobile app boasts excellent ratings in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store,” wrote StockBrokers.com. “With all variables considered, TradeStation’s mobile trading offering is clean, effective, and provides the functionality active traders need to succeed.” The website added that “TradeStation’s Web Trading platform is great for traders looking to keep things simple.”
StockBrokers.com’s eighth annual Broker Review evaluated 13 brokerage firms on a total of 292 separate variables, which were then used to create 10 primary category rankings.
“Year in and year out, we strive to maintain our position as an industry leader in developing advanced trading technology,” said John Bartleman, President of TradeStation Group, Inc. “StockBrokers.com’s recognition of TradeStation as the number-one platform technology for six years in a row is a testament to the success of these efforts. We’re also pleased to be recognized for the first time for best-in-class order execution. We regularly review speed, execution quality and price improvement for customer orders to ensure that our order-execution capabilities meet the high expectations of our customers.”
To speak with an account executive to learn more about TradeStation or to open an account, call 1.800.808.9336 or visit TradeStation.com.
About TradeStation Group, Inc.
TradeStation Group, Inc., through its principal operating subsidiary, TradeStation Securities, Inc., offers the TradeStation analysis and trading platform 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 and futures trading strategies. TradeStation Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Monex Group, Inc., one of the largest online financial services providers in Japan.
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 stock, 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.
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