PLANTATION, Fla., Aug. 3, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TradeStation, the award-winning broker-dealer for active traders, and a leading provider of integrated strategy testing and automation, is currently taking registrations for a special Futures Symposium event to be held October 15-17, 2009, in Costa Mesa, California, and December 10-12, 2009, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Futures Symposium sold out at the locations where the event was offered in the fall of 2007 and in the summer of 2008.
This three-day event, presented by TradeStation and CME Group, is a unique opportunity to learn about futures trading and analysis from industry experts and senior members of TradeStation's training team. The topics and materials prepared for this course are designed to give you a comprehensive understanding of live futures trading techniques and analysis, and how TradeStation's analysis, testing and automation capabilities apply to them.
Scheduled guest speakers include: --------------------------------- * John Carter and Hubert Senters; speakers, authors and traders, TradeTheMarkets.com * Dan Gramza; trader, author and lecturer, dangramza.com * John Person; trader, author and lecturer, NationalFutures.com * Stanley Dash; TradeStation educator and lecturer * Michael Burke; TradeStation educator and lecturer
The topics covered will include: "Live Trading Analysis," "Applications of Proprietary Candle Strategies," "Gaining an Edge in the Futures Market Using Seasonal Studies" and "Building Effective Trading Strategies with Improved Technical Indicator Visualization."
Also included is a two-part pre-conference event. Part 1 of the pre-conference will be an "Introduction to Futures Trading" presented by Stanley Dash, which is designed to give attendees some of the information they need to get started trading futures. Part 2 of the pre-conference will consist of a session covering set-ups and preparation for the live trading and analysis sessions.
This TradeStation event is co-sponsored by CME Group (www.cmegroup.com), which will provide additional information on the futures industry, markets and available futures trading products. No investment or trading advice will be offered at this event.
For more information, visit our website at: http://www.tradestation.com/strategy or call Michelle Moore, Director of Events, at (954) 652-7207.
About TradeStation Group, Inc. ------------------------------
TradeStation Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:TRAD), through its principal operating subsidiary, TradeStation Securities, Inc., offers the TradeStation platform to the active trader and certain institutional trader markets. TradeStation is an electronic trading platform that 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. 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.