TradeStation Securities, Inc. announced its partnership with QuantConnect, an open source algorithmic trading platform.

This integration allows mutual clients to create and automate their trading strategies through the QuantConnect platform while trading, through 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 partnership, we are taking our commitment to empowering active and algorithmic traders to a whole new level,” said John Bartleman, President and CEO of TradeStation. Securities’ parent company, TradeStation Group, Inc. “By integrating our personalized brokerage services with QuantConnect’s algorithmic trading platform, we provide sophisticated traders with powerful tools to develop, monitor and automate their strategies—enhancing their ability to identify and execute new trading opportunities.”

“We are excited to integrate our technology with TradeStation Securities’ API to offer trading of US stocks, stock options and futures through a single broker,” said QuantConnect CEO Jared Broad. “With this partnership, mutual clients can create, manage and analyze trading strategies from the new integration between platforms. TradeStation Securities is a well-known online broker-dealer and self-managed futures trader, and it’s exciting to know that QuantConnect’s platform will be available to joint clients.”