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.”