| TradeStation Group Reports Monthly Business Metrics
Plantation FL, March 2, 2006 – TradeStation Group, Inc. (NasdaqNM: TRAD) today reported the following business metrics for the month ended February 28, 2006:
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• 59,010 Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs) |
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• Total client assets of $1.4 billion (as of February 28, 2006) |
Year over year, TradeStation’s DARTs increased 48% and total client assets increased 16%. Below in tabular format are year-over-year comparisons of those metrics on both a monthly and quarterly basis:
TradeStation Securities
Business Metrics |
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Feb-06 |
Feb-05 |
Feb-06
vs.
Feb-05 |
Q1-06
QTD* |
Qtr Ended
3/31/05 |
Q1-06
QTD*
vs.
Qtr Ended
3/31/05 |
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| Trading Days |
19.0 |
19.0 |
N.M. |
39.0 |
61.0 |
N.M. |
| Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs) |
59,010 |
39,896 |
48% |
59,027 |
39,801 |
48% |
| Total Client Assets ($MM), end of period |
$1,442 |
$1,248 |
16% |
$1,442 |
$1,182 |
22% |
Additional information regarding the company’s business metrics can be found on TradeStation Group’s Web site at
www.tradestation.com/aboutus/businessmetrics.shtm.
*Q1-06 quarter-to-date (QTD) means results for the two-months ended February 28, 2006.
About TradeStation Group,
Inc.
TradeStation Group, Inc. (NasdaqNM: TRAD), through its principal operating subsidiary, TradeStation Securities, Inc., offers the TradeStation platform to the active trader and certain institutional trader markets. TradeStation is an electronic trading platform that offers state-of-the-art “direct market access” (DMA) or “direct-access” order execution and enables clients to design, test, optimize, monitor and automate their own custom trading strategies. In 2006, TradeStation was named Best Direct-Access Stock Broker, Best Direct-Access Futures Broker, Best Institutional Platform, and Best Professional Platform for the fourth year in a row, and, for the second year in a row, Best Futures Brokerage overall 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.
Contact —
David H. Fleischman
Chief Financial Officer
TradeStation Group, Inc.
954-652-7000 |
