TradeStation Group Reports Monthly Business Metrics

PLANTATION Fla., Oct. 23  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TradeStation Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: TRAD) today reported the following business metrics for the month ended September 30, 2007:

     -- 80,589 Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs)
     -- Total client assets of $1.7 billion (as of September 30, 2007)
     -- Average equities client credit balances of $553 million
     -- Average equities client margin balances of $84 million



Year over year, TradeStation's DARTs increased 34%, total client assets increased 10%, average equities client credit balances increased 5%, and average equities client margin balances increased 35%.  Below in tabular format are year-over-year comparisons of those metrics on both a monthly and quarterly basis:

                         TradeStation Securities
                             Business Metrics

                                                                      Qtr
                                                                      Ended
                                                                     9/30/07
                                                                       vs.
                                            Sep-07    Qtr     Qtr     Qtr
                                              vs.    Ended   Ended    Ended
                            Sep-07  Sep-06  Sep-06  9/30/07 9/30/06  9/30/06
                            ------------------------------------------------

   Trading Days              19.0    20.0    N.M.    62.5    62.5     N.M.
   Daily Average Revenue
    Trades (DARTs)          80,589  60,007   34%    87,937   58,457   50%
   Total Client Assets
   ($MM), end of period     $1,720  $1,569   10%    $1,720   $1,569   10%
   Average Equities Client
    Credit Balances ($MM)     $553    $528    5%      $549     $519    6%
   Average Equities Client
    Margin Balances ($MM)      $84     $62   35%       $85      $65   31%



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.

  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 2007, TradeStation was named, for the third year in a row, Best Futures Brokerage and, for the fifth year in a row, Best Direct-Access Stock Broker, Best Professional Platform and Best Institutional Platform, in "Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities" magazine.

TradeStation Securities, Inc. (Member NYSE, FINRA, 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, Boston Options Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Chicago Stock Exchange, International Securities Exchange, NYSE ARCA and Philadelphia Stock Exchange. The company's technology subsidiary, TradeStation Technologies, Inc., develops and offers strategy trading software tools and subscription services.  Its London-based subsidiary, TradeStation Europe Limited, an FSA-authorized brokerage firm, introduces UK and other European accounts to TradeStation Securities.

  Contact --
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  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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