| TradeStation Group Reports Monthly Business Metrics
Plantation FL, January 4, 2006 –TradeStation Group, Inc. (NasdaqNM: TRAD) today reported the following business metrics for the month ended December 31, 2005:
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• 43,998 Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs) |
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• Total client assets of $1.3 billion (as of December 31, 2005) |
Year over year, TradeStation’s DARTs increased 32% and total client assets increased 11%. Below in tabular format are year-over-year comparisons of those metrics on both a monthly and quarterly basis:
TradeStation Securities
Business Metrics |
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Dec-05 |
Dec-04 |
Dec-05
vs.
Dec-04 |
Qtr Ended 12/31/05 |
Qtr Ended
12/31/04 |
Qtr Ended
12/31/05
vs.
Qtr Ended
12/31/04 |
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| Trading Days |
21.0 |
22.0 |
N.M. |
62.5 |
63.5 |
N.M. |
| Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs) |
43,998 |
33,272 |
32% |
48,767 |
34,728 |
40% |
| Total Client Assets ($MM), end of period |
$1,340 |
$1,212 |
11% |
$1,340 |
$1,212 |
11% |
Additional information regarding the company’s business metrics can be found on TradeStation Group’s Web site at
www.tradestation.com/aboutus/businessmetrics.shtm.
About TradeStation Group,
Inc.
TradeStation Group, Inc. (NasdaqNM: TRAD), through its operating subsidiary, TradeStation Securities, Inc., offers the TradeStation platform to institutional, professional and serious, active individual traders. TradeStation is an electronic trading platform that offers state-of-the-art direct-access order execution and enables clients to design, test, monitor and automate their own custom trading strategies. In February 2005, TradeStation was named Best Stock Brokerage and Best Futures Brokerage and, for the third year in a row, Best Direct-Access Stock Broker, Best Direct-Access Futures Broker, Best Professional Platform and Best Institutional Platform, in Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine. The trading platform currently offers streaming real-time Equities, Options, Futures and Forex market data.
TradeStation Securities, Inc. (Member NASD, NYSE, SIPC, NSCC, DTC, OCC & NFA) is a licensed securities broker-dealer and a registered futures commission merchant, and also a member of the American Stock Exchange, Archipelago Exchange, Boston Options Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Eurex US, International Securities Exchange, Pacific Exchange and Philadelphia Stock Exchange. The company’s other operating subsidiary, TradeStation Technologies, Inc., develops and offers strategy trading software tools and subscription services, and hosts the company’s annual users conference.
Contact —
David H. Fleischman
Chief Financial Officer
TradeStation Group, Inc.
954-652-7000 |
