William would focus on product development while Ralph spearheaded the company's marketing strategies.ĭisappointed with their fling as stock traders, essentially throwing darts and hoping they hit the target, William Cruz decided to develop an analytical software program for commodities traders. William went on to attend the renowned Juilliard School in New York, and later Ralph enrolled at the music program at the University of Indiana, but he dropped out to join his brother in starting a company in 1982 called Omega Research, Inc., based in Miami. Fortunately they were talented enough musicians to both receive full scholarships from the University of Miami to study classical violin.

He got his brother, three years younger, involved and together they proceeded to lose all the money they had in commodities. However, the older of the two, William, became fascinated with commodities trading during high school, and as soon as he was old enough he opened an account. Rather than dreaming about becoming entrepreneurs, the Cruz brothers grew up in Miami with aspirations of becoming classical musicians. About half of the shares are controlled between the company's cofounders and co-chief executive officers, brothers William and Ralph Cruz. TradeStation is a public company listed on the NASDAQ. A second operating subsidiary, TradeStation Technologies, Inc., offers the company's trading strategy capabilities, either by subscription or a software license. Originally designed as an intelligent trading assistant, the TradeStation platform is now able to execute orders in addition to giving users the ability to develop and test trading strategies, then implement, automate, and monitor them. The company caters to institutional and professional traders as well as serious individual traders, providing them with its flagship state-of-the-art TradeStation electronic trading platform, the core of which has been a staple of the securities industry since its introduction in the early 1990s. TradeStation Group, Inc., is an Internet-based securities brokerage company operating through its primary subsidiary TradeStation Securities, Inc., a licensed securities broker with more than 25,000 accounts. Incorporated: 1982 as Omega Research, Inc.

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