PLANTATION, Fla., Oct. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- TradeStation Securities, Inc. ("TradeStation"), a Monex Group company and award-winning* online broker-dealer and futures commission merchant, today announced that it will host Options Stars 2018, a one-day options trading event to be held October 19, 2018 in Chicago.** The symposium brings together six of the industry's most experienced options traders and mentors, providing attendees with the opportunity to learn directly from professional options traders.
Sponsored by the Cboe Global Markets, Inc. ("Cboe"), Options Stars 2018 will offer traders of all skill levels the opportunity to engage with real options traders and learn how they generate trading ideas, manage risk and approach each trading day. Topics to be discussed will include: understanding how volatility may affect your profit and loss, identifying the right options strategy for your market outlook, selecting options strike and expiration prices, options opportunity scanning and mastering risk graphs. The event will also showcase TradeStation's OptionStation Pro options trading platform and its advanced options analysis tools.
"Options Stars 2018 brings together an incredible lineup of professional options traders who also happen to be outstanding options trading mentors," said John Bartleman, President of TradeStation Group. "This is an opportunity for traders at all levels to jump-start their options trading and gain the tools and skills needed to trade when the markets are trending up, down or sideways, in both low- and high-volatility conditions."
The event's six featured speakers are Online Trading Academy Chief Trading Strategist Sam Seiden, Simpler Options CEO John Carter, The Market Guys Co-founder AJ Monte, SheCanTrade CEO Sarah Potter, Big Trends CEO Price Headley and Sheridan Options Mentoring CEO Dan Sheridan. Additional special guests include Kevin Davitt, Senior Instructor of the Options Institute; David Russell, VP of Content Strategy at TradeStation; and Michael Burke, VP of Client Training and Education at TradeStation.
The event is open to TradeStation clients as well as non-clients. For more information and to register, visit https://www.tradestation.com/promo/options-stars/.
To speak with an account executive to learn more about TradeStation or to open an account, call 1.800.808.9336 or visit TradeStation.com.
About TradeStation Group, Inc.
TradeStation Group, Inc., through its principal operating subsidiary, TradeStation Securities, Inc., offers the TradeStation analysis and trading platform to the active trader and certain institutional trader markets. The TradeStation platform offers electronic order execution and enables clients to design, test, optimize, monitor and automate their own custom equities, options and futures trading strategies. TradeStation Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Monex Group, Inc., one of the largest online financial services providers in Japan.
TradeStation Securities, Inc. (Member NYSE, FINRA, SIPC, NSCC, DTC, OCC & CME) is a licensed securities broker-dealer and a registered futures commission merchant (FCM), and a member of major stock, options and futures exchanges in the United States. TradeStation Group's technology subsidiary, TradeStation Technologies, Inc., develops and offers strategy trading software tools and subscription services, and hosts the TradingApp® Store.
* Visit TradeStation.com/Awards for more information.
** Options trading is not suitable for all investors. View the document titled Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options.
SOURCE TradeStation Group, Inc.
