National investment seminars

Monex Securities holds large-scale national investment seminars approximately five times a year in prefectures throughout Japan. In addition to the Company's CEO and Chief Strategist, outside experts also take the stage to provide investment education to the clients.

Total number of seminars held by region (2013-2024.6)

Hokkaido Tohoku Kanto Chubu Kinki Chugoku Shikoku Kyushu
No. 11 10 6 13 12 4 5 10

Annual total number of participants

FYE 2015 FYE 2016 FYE 2017 FYE 2018 FYE 2019 FYE 2020 FYE 2021 FYE 2022 FYE 2023
No. 1,992 1,259 2,313 1,688 1,989 3,213 12,370 23,021 10,334

*Includes online seminars since FY2020

Online seminars

Monex Securities proactively holds online seminars and lectures to deliver the latest information on market and investment. In addition to the lectures open to its customers, Monex Securities frequently organizes the lectures in which any individual investor can participate, thereby providing investors with information widely.

Online seminars organized by Monex Securities – Number of participants and seminars

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
No. of Seminars 214 159 177 193 206
No. of Participants 137,494 146,933 159,806 134,636 155,003

Investment education at Monex University

Based on the belief that enhancing individual financial literacy helps activate the capital market and develop the economy, Monex Securities has focused on educating the public on investment since it was founded. Monex Securities set up Monex University, which performs the pivotal role in investment education, within the organization to carry out activities targeting mainly novice investors continuously.

Endowed Lectures

Aoi Mori Shinkin Bank and Monex Securities held a special class about "money" for second-year students of Hachinohe Gakuin Noheji-nishi High School in January 2024. Aoi Mori Shinkin Bank gave a lecture on loans and life planning, and Monex Securities gave a lecture on financial products and asset management to deepen students' understanding about finance.

 

In the spring semester of 2024, Nagoya Gakuin University's Faculty of Economics offered an endowed course, and Monex University was in charge of 5 of the 15 classes.

 

In June 2024, Monex University's chief consultant gave a lecture on U.S. stocks and the U.S. stock market, along with the importance of acquiring financial literacy as one of the basic skills to enrich one's quality of life and mind. 

Financial courses for student investment clubs
Financial courses for student investment clubs
Financial courses for student investment clubs

Kids' Workshop

Monex University exhibited at "Kids Workshop 2023" hosted by Mori Building in the summer of 2023. This year's event was titled "Let's Build a Leisure Land Together: Find Investors and Create Your Favorite Attraction! Kids can build a merry-go-round and a Ferris wheel, and when the blocks on hand were not enough, the participants negotiated with "investors" to provide financial support.

(KIDS' WORKSHOP 2023 "Let's learn with your child! First Time Stock Investment" (August 2023))
(KIDS' WORKSHOP 2023 "Let's learn with your child! First Time Stock Investment" (August 2023))
(KIDS' WORKSHOP 2021 "Let's learn with your child! First Time Stock Investment" (August 2021))

(KIDS' WORKSHOP 2023/MIRAI SUMMER CAMP hosted by Mori Building in Aug 2023)

Publication of books

- "A Gentle Guide of Crypto Asset" by Masamichi Matsushima, published by Asa Publishing, January 2024

- "Oki Matsumoto's Capital Market Nation Theory: How to Use ¥2000 Trillion to Revive Japan" by Oki Matsumoto, Toyo Keizai Inc., October 2023

- "Master it in an Hour! Manga TEXTBOOK on NISA" by Tadashi Fukushima / Fusosha, September 2023

- "An Introduction to Investing in U.S. Stocks from Zero Knowledge" supervised by Hyohachiro Okamoto / Gentosha, May 2022

- "Chart Analysis: What Every Winning Investor Knows 2" by Tadashi Fukushima / Fusosha, May 2022

- "Starting Today! An Introduction to Investing in U.S. Stocks: The Only Reason Why Oki Matsumoto Recommends It After All" by Oki Matsumoto / Toyo Keizai Inc., October 2021

TradeStation

YouCanTrade

TradeStation offers a unique trading education experience that allows traders to choose the education modality that they feel is right for them. Education is offered with in person and virtual learning classrooms available at multiple times throughout the day. Clients can connect to a live TradeStation specialist to answer questions, walk through product demonstrations, view trade strategy applied in the platform, and learn market basics. TradeStation offers a range of learning opportunities from formal education courses about products and the markets and also quick online tutorials and live Q&A sessions with industry experts and TradeStation training specialists. TradeStation also participates in industry conferences and speaking engagements across the country, connecting real market knowledge with useful ways to set up the platform to ensure clients can trade efficiently, and confidently.

Support for Universities

University of Miami Athletics

TradeStation has signed an agreement to become the official FinTech sponsor of the University of Miami (UM) Athletics in March 2022. Through this sponsorship, TradeStation has also been named the presenting sponsor of the Miami Hurricanes Football Season. TradeStation seeks to educate Hurricanes fans, students, faculty, and alumni on trading and investing in financial products and provide educational opportunities, internships, and seminars.

 

Miami Dade College (MDC)

In order to gain real-time crypto trading experience, TradeStation donated $50,000 to MDC's Student Managed Investment Fund ("SMIF"). SMIF is student-led, providing hands-on experience running an investment fund with real assets through TradeStation's digital asset platform, and any investment returns generated by the SMIF also help support scholarships for student. Students manage the SMIF’s crypto assets through TradeStation Crypto’s platform and gain access to TradeStation Crypto’s educational and investing resources to help deepen their knowledge of crypto and leverage investment strategies.

Community-Based Educational Support Activities

TradeStation supported Overtown Youth Center*1 and Breakthrough Miami*2, which provide investment education opportunities for underprivileged children. TradeStation also sponsored the Pierre Toussaint Leadership and Learning Center*3 provides IT and investment education in the Little Haiti area.

*1 Overtown Youth Center (OYC) provides a comprehensive educational program for promising youth in kindergarten through age 25 and their families in South Florida. OYC supports their personal growth through learning and strengthen family wellness.
*2 Breakthrough Miami provides an excellent educational opportunity for the next generation motivated, under-resourced 5th – 12th grade students through a learning program that uses a “student-teaching-students” model. For more information, please visit this link.
*3 Pierre Toussaint Leadership and Learning Center (PTLLC) has served as a spiritual hub that provides educational, social, and relief services to the Haitian Community in Miami and Haiti for the past 39 years. Today, PTLLC offers literacy program, after-school/summer programs for ages 5-14, day care services for children, technology lab, and more. For more information, please visit this link.