Woodstock Launches Japan’s First Social US Stock Trading App with Alpaca

Woodstock is a social US stock trading app that allows Japanese investors to invest in the US market with as little as 1,000 yen. The app offers over 500 US stocks and ETFs, interactive Twitter-like functionality for beginner investors to learn from the community, and a platform to share investment portfolios with friends. Woodstock aims to empower the next generation of investors by providing a safe environment for asset-building and financial market education. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and has partnered with Alpaca, a developer-first embedded financial technologies platform, to offer JPY-based US stock investing experience.