MONEX Set to Launch TradeStation in Japan

The Japanese MONEX Group has announced today, January 15th, it will be launching a customized version of the American developed Trading Platform Trading Platform In the FX space, a currency trading platform is a software provided by brokers to their respective client base, garnering access as traders in the broader market. Most commonly, this reflects an online interface or mobile app, complete with tools for order processing.Every broker needs one or more trading platforms to accommodate the needs of different clients. Being the backbone of the company’s offering, a trading platform provides clients with quotes, a selection of instruments to trade, real In the FX space, a currency trading platform is a software provided by brokers to their respective client base, garnering access as traders in the broader market. Most commonly, this reflects an online interface or mobile app, complete with tools for order processing.Every broker needs one or more trading platforms to accommodate the needs of different clients. Being the backbone of the company’s offering, a trading platform provides clients with quotes, a selection of instruments to trade, real Read this Term, TradeStation, later this month in Japan.

The TradeStation platform is a product of the Florida-based online Multi-Asset Multi-Asset Composed of varying asset classes, multi-asset is a blanket designation combining different classes such bonds, equities, cash equivalents, fixed income, and alternative investments.When compared to traditional balanced funds, multi-asset solutions differ because they target specific investment outcomes. This includes outcomes such as return above inflation as opposed to gauging performance against standardized benchmarks.Given the composition of multi-asset classes, they need to be dynamically Composed of varying asset classes, multi-asset is a blanket designation combining different classes such bonds, equities, cash equivalents, fixed income, and alternative investments.When compared to traditional balanced funds, multi-asset solutions differ because they target specific investment outcomes. This includes outcomes such as return above inflation as opposed to gauging performance against standardized benchmarks.Given the composition of multi-asset classes, they need to be dynamically Read this Term broker bearing the same name. The MONEX Group acquired the TradeStation Group, comprised of TradeStation Securities and TradeStation Technologies, Inc., in April 2011, in order to gain a foothold in the U.S market.

The MONEX group stated in the announcement that the new version of TradeStation is specifically tailored for the needs of Japanese investors, with features like automatically calculating local taxes applicable in Japan, while keeping many of the key features of its U.S. counterpart.

A much more limited platform developed by TradeStation was introduced by MONEX to the market in Japan in late 2012, in order to enable Japanese retail investors to trade U.S. equities. The new expanded version, scheduled to be launched on January 27th, will be downloadable to a desktop computer and allows Japanese traders to develop technical analysis-based investment strategies using TradeStation's popular “EasyLanguage.”

The MONEX Group describes the move to offer the TradeStation platform in Japan as part of its “Global Vision,” a mid and long-term business strategy which aims to offer differentiated trading products and services to retail investors.