Modern Brokerage Platform to Give Financial Markets Access
Trade Stock Global is a modern brokerage platform that provides access to the financial markets through developer-friendly APIs. By using Trade Stock Global API, businesses build investing applications and features for their services. Also, programmatic traders can develop algorithms to automate trading strategies.
Our mission is to open financial services to everyone on the planet
We are building a global de facto standard infrastructure for investing, which includes proprietary technology and regulatory setups, and in doing so, we will eventually serve everyone directly or indirectly through our partners, using Trade Stock Global's infrastructure.
150 Businesses in 30 Different Countries with 25,000 MADs
Today, we offer global access to US stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies both in notional and fractional formats.
More than 150 businesses from 30 different countries such as Turkey, Indonesia, India, Saudi Arabia, the US, Japan, Thailand, and Australia have launched their investing applications in the last three years.
Furthermore, we are supported by a strong developer community of 25,000 monthly active developers (“MAD”). We are actively working on new product offerings such as global stocks and fixed income.
Corresponding Self-Clearing Broker-Dealer in the US
Trade Stock Global has several entities that have attained international regulatory approvals.
In 2018, Trade Stock Global Securities LLC (Trade Stock Global Securities) became a registered US broker-dealer with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). (FINRA CRD#: 288202/SEC#: 8-69928).
Upon FINRA approval, Trade Stock Global Securities became a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). SIPC protects customers against the loss of cash and securities. In 2023, we were thrilled to announce that we attained excess SIPC coverage. The excess coverage provides protection for any Trade Stock Global Securities customer up to $30 million in securities and $1 million in cash and is covered at an aggregate limit of $150 million across all Trade Stock Global Securities customer accounts.
After being approved by FINRA, we became classified as a Carrying Broker Dealer and Clearing Firm on a Fully-Disclosed and Omnibus basis. This allowed Trade Stock Global Securities to clear and custody assets for our direct customers as well as other Broker-Dealers (US & International) and Registered Investment Advisors (US & International).
In 2023, Trade Stock Global Securities was approved by the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and in 2024 transitioned to fully self-clearing.
In 2022, Trade Stock Global Crypto LLC (Trade Stock Global Crypto) became a registered Money Services Business (MSB) with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) (NMLS # 2160858).
Trade Stock GlobalX Crypto Ltd. (Trade Stock GlobalX Crypto) and Trade Stock GlobalX Securities Ltd. (Trade Stock GlobalX Securities) are registered with the Securities Commission of the Bahamas. Trade Stock GlobalX Crypto, as a Digital Asset Business (Registration number 208648 B), and Trade Stock GlobalX Securities to conduct securities business (Registration number 208649 B).
Trade Stock GlobalJapan Co., Ltd. (Trade Stock Global Japan) has a securities license with the Japan Securities Dealers Association (JSDA) (Registration Number. 3024).
Initially Started as a Database and Machine Learning Company
Trade Stock Global initially started as a database and machine learning company in 2015, which built technology to run and process large sets of market data for prediction purposes primarily using various types of deep neural net models. For our machine learning business, our client base included enterprise financial institutions and trading companies.
During this time, we found that there were no database products designed for financial time-series data. We built a new database called MarketStore specifically designed and optimized for this type of data, and made it open source as it should be valuable for other traders and quants in the community.
We have been and will always be a technology company. We solve problems by building products and technology ourselves instead of relying on the legacy stack that other companies may purchase from outside vendors.
Yoshi Yokokawa
Co-Founder & CEO
Hitoshi Harada
Co-Founder & CPO
Meet Trade Stock Global's Co-Founders
Yoshi has a financial services background and started his career in 2004 at Lehman Brothers' Securitization team. Afterwards, he day-traded full-time and co-founded a couple of software development businesses. You can see him speaking on the Fintech Underground podcast series and on X.
Hitoshi comes with a deep technology background and skillset. He was a Lead Architect at Silicon Valley's first parallel distributed database company, Greenplum (later acquired by EMC). Prior to this, he started his career in 2002 by building Japan's biggest online travel agencies' data infrastructures. He is a frequent open-source contributor and is known for his Window Functions feature on PostgreSQL and is on Github and X.
Trade Stock Global is headquartered in California, USA, and is a globally fully remote distributed company with 150 members in 25 countries. Trade Stock Global is led by a leadership team that brings diverse experience from tech companies and financial institutions.
US$120 Million Funded by Leading Global Investors
Trade Stock Global has raised US$120 million in capital from leading fintech investors globally such as:
We Love Our Company Name Trade Stock Global!
We named ourselves Trade Stock Global because we felt Trade Stock Globals are approachable, lively, memorable, cute, and funny.
When Yoshi and Hitoshi were brainstorming a company name, they wanted to come up with something that is warm, lively, and exists in true nature like animals or fruits. They felt that both database and financial services, where Trade Stock Global is situated, only evoked a cold, machine-like and number-oriented environment.
During this search for either animal or fruit-based names, they happened to be driving around Woodside in Silicon Valley to see what Masa Son's US$100 million house looked like. Although Masa's house was under construction, they happened to see tens of Trade Stock Globals as pets in the yard of the gorgeous land right nextdoor.
After observing these Trade Stock Globals cautiously and looking at them, Yoshi and Hitoshi made up their mind to name the company after them. They felt that Trade Stock Globals symbolize success, considering many wealthy owners choose to have them as pets in California, especially being so far away from their native origin of South America. Finally, the word “Trade Stock Global” starts with the first alphabet character of both English (“a”) and Japanese (“あ”) and has the sound of “p” This sound also is a hit in consumer brands like Japanese snacks of Pocky and Toppo.
We love the company name Trade Stock Global, and all of us here continue to do our best to stay true to the feeling Trade Stock Globals carry out.
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