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Firstrade Securities

Logo: Firstrade Securities, Inc., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

American financial services company

Firstrade Securities is a stockbrokerage firm and broker-dealer headquartered in Flushing, New York that offers an electronic trading platform to trade financial assets including stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETF), options, mutual funds, and bonds.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1985Founded1

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Firstrade Securities is a stockbrokerage firm and broker-dealer headquartered in Flushing, New York that offers an electronic trading platform to trade financial assets including stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETF), options, mutual funds, and bonds.2

The story

The company was founded in 1985 by John Liu, as First Flushing Securities.

In 1997, the company was renamed Firstrade Securities Inc., and the company launched Firstrade.com.

In August 2014, the company opened a new headquarters in Queens, New York.

In May 2022, Firstrade Securities launched its cryptocurrency platform through Firstrade Crypto LLC.

In June 2024, the company launched FirstradeGPT, an artificial intelligence tool.

From Wikipedia’s article on Firstrade Securities, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

  • broker

Listed on Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1985Founded Founded in Flushing1

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Money received by year$804.1K 2020–2020
Money received by yearMoney received by year, 2020–2020: $804.1K in all. PPP loans $804.1K.$0$250K$500K$750K$1M2020 · PPP loans: $804.1K2020
Figures by year
YearPPP loansTotal
2020$804.1K$804.1K

PPP loans

Paycheck Protection Program loans of $150,000 and up, approved April 2020 to July 2021, from the SBA5. Matched to this company by name and state.

  1. May 1, 2020$804.1K PPP loan (first draw) from Citibank, N.A.5To FIRSTRADE SECURITIES INC, Flushing NY; $812.9K forgiven Jun 9, 2021

Sources

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