TradeStation Group Reports Monthly Business Metrics

PLANTATION, Fla., Sept. 5  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TradeStation Group, Inc. (Nasdaq GS: TRAD) today reported the following business metrics for the month ended August 31, 2006:

   - 55,166 Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs)
   - Total client assets of $1.5 billion (as of August 31, 2006)



Year over year, TradeStation's DARTs increased 40% and total client assets increased 20%.  Below in tabular format are year-over-year comparisons of those metrics on both a monthly and quarterly basis:

                         TradeStation Securities
                             Business Metrics

                                                                      Q3-06
                                                                       QTD*
                                           Aug-06                    vs. Qtr
                                             vs.   Q3-06  Qtr Ended   Ended
                           Aug-06  Aug-05  Aug-05   QTD*   9/30/05   9/30/05
                           ------  ------  ------  -----  ---------  -------

   Trading Days              23.0    23.0    N.M.   42.5    64.0       N.M.

   Daily Average Revenue
   Trades (DARTs)          55,166  39,496    40%  57,729  41,206       40%

   Total Client Assets
   ($MM), end of period    $1,513  $1,260    20%  $1,513  $1,296       17%




Additional information regarding the company's business metrics can be found on TradeStation Group's Web site at http://www.tradestation.com/aboutus/businessmetrics.shtm.

   * Q3-06 quarter-to-date (QTD) means results for the two months ended
     August 31, 2006.


  About TradeStation Group, Inc.


TradeStation Group, Inc. (Nasdaq GS: 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 Equities, Options, Futures and Forex trading strategies.  In 2006, TradeStation was named, for the second year in a row, Best Futures Brokerage and, for the fourth 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.

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, 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


DATASOURCE: TradeStation Group, Inc.



CONTACT:  David H. Fleischman, Chief Financial Officer of TradeStation

Group, Inc., [phone]



Web site:  http://www.tradestation.com/

http://www.tradestation.com/aboutus/businessmetrics.shtm 

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