TradeStation Group, Inc. is the parent company of online securities and futures brokerage firms and trading technology companies. It is headquartered in Plantation, Florida, and has offices in New York; Chicago; Richardson, Texas; London; Sydney; and Costa Rica. TradeStation is best known for the technical analysis software and electronic trading platform it provides to active traders and certain institutional trader markets. TradeStation Group was a Nasdaq GS-listed company from 1997 to 2011, until it was acquired by Monex Group, a Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed parent company of one of Japan's leading online securities brokerage firms.
History
TradeStation was founded in 1982 by brothers William (Bill) and Rafael (Ralph) Cruz.[4] The company focused on developing software tools that enabled traders without formal programming backgrounds to design, test, and automate trading strategies. During this period, Omega Research developed EasyLanguage, a proprietary scripting language intended to simplify the creation and testing of trading systems. Because Tradestation is a development platform, a custom trading program can be developed called a trading system or trading strategy