Tradier Brokerage and Equities Lab Launch Education Initiative to Help Give Students a Head Start on Their Investing Future

Nov 3, 2015

Charlotte, North Carolina – November 3, 2015 — Tradier Brokerage, Inc., the cloud-based financial services brokerage firm, today announced a collaboration with trading analysis platform, Equities Lab, to provide university students with real-world trading experiences. Universities currently leveraging Equities Lab in the classroom will now have the added opportunity to have students experience live trading directly from the platform via Tradier Brokerage, with the added incentive of having their investments being matched dollar for dollar up to 400 dollars.

This education initiative comes on the heels of Equities Labs formerly announced integration with the Tradier API earlier this summer to empower investors to seamlessly execute trades and combine additional portfolio monitoring capabilities with strategic insight. Committed to empowering up-and-coming talent with the tools, insights and resources necessary to become experienced real-world traders, the Tradier-Equities Lab education initiative will allow students using Equities Lab in the classroom to benefit from Tradier Brokerage with:

  • Lower Barrier of Entry — If a student using Equities Lab opens a Tradier Brokerage account, they will benefit from a reduced minimum funding requirement down to $100 (from $1000)
  • Matched Dollar to Dollar Investment — Students who opt to open a live trading account will benefit from having Tradier Brokerage match every dollar for dollar deposited, up to $400. Details of the program can be found here.
  • Frictionless Trades — As part of Equities Labs' integration with the Tradier Brokerage API, students learning with the Equities Lab platform in the classroom can seamlessly place a trade directly from the platform without having to switch screens and log-in to a new user interface

"While we remain committed to serving as a proverbial launch pad for innovative fintech companies, we are equally committed to building and arming the pipeline of upcoming retail investors," said Rio Slaven, Head of Marketing and Community at Tradier, Inc. "Our education initiative and extended collaboration with forward-thinking Equities Lab underscores our digital empowerment and innovation mission in financial services, and we look forward to seeing how today's students become tomorrow's capable and confident investors."

"For cash-strapped students, 400 dollars will go a long way," said Henry Crutcher, President of Equities Lab. "With our expanded collaboration with Tradier Brokerage, students will benefit from real-world trading resources and experience to become smarter, more experienced investors by graduation day. As fintech clubs are on the rise at many universities, we are excited to have this unique offering with Tradier to help give students using Equities Lab in the classroom an edge."

"Equities Lab is an easy-to-use platform that helps us to conduct research into companies and trading strategies. My students enjoy using it for investing homework and assignments. Some have even kept it on after the class ends to use it to help them in their investing decisions," said Dr. Sugata Ray, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida. "With Tradier's match program, students can enjoy an immediate boost to their initial investment, while trying out their strategies with real money."

For more information about the program and participating universities see here.

For information on Tradier Brokerage, Inc, visit brokerage.tradier.com or contact us at 980.272.3880 or engage with us on Twitter @tradier.

About Equities Lab

Built from the ground-up by ex-Google Engineers, Equities Lab uses a next generation user interface (UI) to help investors with stock screening, back-testing, charting, and managing their trading rules. Equities Lab is a powerful stock analysis platform that enables individual investors to outperform the market. With its platform, users can create powerful stock screeners that outperform the market with a great UI that offers the ability to track and analyze a strategy via its next generation watch lists, analyze stocks using next generation fundamental and technical analysis, and develop intelligent and effective investing skills. For more information, visit: https://www.equitieslab.com/

About Tradier Brokerage Inc.

Tradier Brokerage, Inc. — a member FINRA andSIPC is an independent subsidiary of Tradier, Inc. The Brokerage API enables entrepreneurs, businesses, developers and active traders to solve their trading and brokerage challenges using independent content and tool providers of their choice — at simple and competitive prices.

About Tradier, Inc.

Tradier, Inc. is a cloud-based financial services provider and brokerage API company that offers a groundbreaking platform to serve Platform Providers, Advisors, Developers and Individual Investors. Tradier delivers an innovative set of fully hosted API's, modules and "out of the box" tools that are leveraged by a growing list of providers seeking to create innovative trading and investing experiences.

Created by developers, Tradier is a technology linchpin that works with organizations that want to democratize access to data, trade execution, low cost trading and market connectivity through cloud access. In addition, Tradier's APIs empowers third-party developers to build applications such as algorithmic and robotic trading systems.

The Tradier solution features REST-based and Streaming APIs, and turnkey tools that deliver speed, choice and simplicity – all on a secure platform.