PLANTATION, Fla., Sept. 19, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TradeStation, the award-winning broker-dealer and futures commission merchant, will showcase its award-winning trading and analysis platform and new forex offering provided by affiliate TradeStation Forex, Inc. at the Futures & Forex Expo on September 22-24, 2011, at Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
This three-day event is an opportunity for futures and forex traders to experience firsthand the many advanced features of the TradeStation 9.0 trading platform and give them a chance to meet and speak with TradeStation training specialists and account executives.
TradeStation will also showcase its recently introduced TradeStation Forex offering, which features a new Quick Trade Bar, tighter spreads and professional-grade forex trading analysis tools.
"We have seen great growth in our forex business since we launched our new pricing model earlier this year," said Gary Weiss, President of TradeStation Forex. "TradeStation Forex addresses the needs of active forex traders on many levels, offering analysis, algorithmic and automated trade strategies, tight spreads and no platform fees."
As a gold sponsor of the event, TradeStation will kick off the expo on September 22 with three special pre-conference sessions devoted to futures trading, cosponsored by TradeStation and CME Group. Presented by TradeStation, CME and industry experts, these sessions will target beginning as well as experienced futures traders, offering insights and analysis of today's highly volatile stock index and commodity futures markets.
On September 23-24, TradeStation training experts will host three breakout sessions devoted to live trading and analysis, making sense of global forex markets and strategy testing and automation. TradeStation representatives will also be available at the following dates and times:
| Thursday, September 22, 2011: | 1-5 p.m. – Pre-Conference |
| Friday, September 23, 2011: | 9:45 a.m.-7 p.m. – Exhibit Hall and Breakout Sessions |
| Saturday, September 24, 2011: | 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. – Exhibit Hall and Breakout Sessions |
For more information, please visit http://tradestation.futuresandforexexpo.com.
About TradeStation
TradeStation is an award-winning online brokerage firm and trading platform, considered one of the leaders in the active trader market. In March 2011, Barron's magazine, in its annual review of 24 online brokerage firms, ranked TradeStation the #1 brokerage firm in the United States, as well as #1 for Frequent Traders, Trading Technology, and Customer Service and Education. In February 2011, 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. Also in February 2011, TradeStation was ranked the #1 online brokerage in the U.S. by TraderPlanet.com and SFO magazine in their 2010 Superior Trading and Resource (STAR) Awards.
TradeStation Group, Inc., through its brokerage subsidiaries, offers the TradeStation platform to the active trader and certain institutional trader markets. TradeStation is an electronic trading platform that offers advanced electronic order placement and execution and enables clients to scan the markets and design, test, optimize, monitor and automate their own custom Equities, Options, Futures and Forex trading strategies.
TradeStation Securities, Inc. (Member NYSE, FINRA, SIPC, DTCC, OCC & NFA) is a self-clearing, licensed securities broker-dealer and a registered futures commission merchant, and also a member of numerous major exchanges. 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) which offers foreign currency (forex) accounts under what has been commonly known as the "agency broker model." The London-based subsidiary, TradeStation Europe Limited, an FSA-authorized brokerage firm, introduces UK and other European accounts to TradeStation Securities and TradeStation Forex. The company's technology subsidiary, TradeStation Technologies, Inc., develops and offers strategy trading software tools and subscription services and owns all of the company's intellectual property.