TradeStation and Market Technicians Association Co-Sponsor Educational Trading Programs
April 04 2011 - 7:40AM
TradeStation announced today a joint sponsorship with the Market
Technicians Association (MTA) Educational Foundation. Through this
joint sponsorship, students and professors at colleges and
universities will be given free use of the award-winning
TradeStation platform for the academic school year. TradeStation's
co-sponsorship, through its technology affiliate, TradeStation
Technologies, is part of the TradeStation Educational Alliances
Program through which free TradeStation platforms are provided to
college and graduate business programs throughout the United
States. TradeStation Securities, the company's brokerage affiliate,
was rated the #1 online brokerage firm in the United States by
Barron's magazine in its March 2011 survey, as well as best for
frequent traders, best trading technology and best customer service
and education.
"The TradeStation Educational Alliances Program has been
offering students of universities and educational institutions
access to the latest state-of-the-art technology available for
today's active traders," said John Roberts, Chief Operating Officer
of TradeStation Group, the parent company of TradeStation
Securities and TradeStation Technologies. "We're proud to be able
to partner with the Market Technicians Association to expand this
offering by adding to MTA's numerous educational resources."
"TradeStation is a great product for students who may become
investors and traders to learn about various approaches
to navigate today's marketplace, including the creation
and development of trading ideas and strategies and how to test,
optimize and automate those ideas and strategies in a simulated
real-time trading environment," said Bruce Kamich, President of
MTAEF. "The MTA Educational Foundation is pleased to partner with
TradeStation to help educate students in the art and science of
technical analysis."
The Foundation's commitment to introduce technical analysis in
colleges and universities includes a discounted membership in the
MTA (free for students taking a full accredited course in technical
analysis), guest speakers for professors' classes and training for
college/university professors' course materials.
About TradeStation Group, Inc.
TradeStation Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:TRAD), 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
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, DTCC,
OCC & NFA) is a licensed securities broker-dealer and a
registered futures commission merchant, and also a member of
various 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) that
is expected to launch and offer exclusively the company's new forex
brokerage offering beginning later this year. 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 and, once operational,
TradeStation Forex.
About The Market Technicians Association
The Market Technicians Association (MTA) is the premier global
organization for the study of technical analysis. Its
membership includes portfolio managers, traders, investment
advisors, market letter writers, and many others involved in the
technical aspects of equities, futures, options, fixed income
securities, currencies, international markets, derivatives,
etc. The Market Technicians Association's objective is to
educate the investment community and MTA members in technical
analysis. More than 3,800 analysts and related market professionals
in over 73 countries are members of the MTA.
About The Market Technicians Association Educational
Foundation
The MTA Educational Foundation (the Foundation) was established
in 1993 with a primary mission to "...identify and fund educational
programs in the field of technical analysis at accredited colleges
and universities..." This mission has since expanded to include the
creation and support of a complete technical analysis curriculum
which is now being taught in classrooms at numerous colleges and
universities across the country.
TradeStation Educational
Alliances Program Contact: |
Jacqueline Reyna |
954-652-7016 |
jreyna@tradestation.com |
|
The Market Technicians
Association Contact: |
Svetlana Sussman |
ssussman@mit.edu and info@mtaef.org |
CONTACT: Media Contact:
Loren Lopez
954-652-7011
llopez@tradestation.com
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