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TradeStation Group Reports Monthly Business Metrics

PLANTATION, Fla., Oct. 21, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TradeStation Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:TRAD) today reported the following business metrics for the month ended September 30, 2010:
/ Source: GlobeNewswire

PLANTATION, Fla., Oct. 21, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TradeStation Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:TRAD) today reported the following business metrics for the month ended September 30, 2010:

  • 72,979 Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs)
  • Total client assets of $2.3 billion (as of September 30, 2010)
  • Average equities client credit balances of $948 million
  • Average equities client margin balances of $51 million

Year over year, TradeStation's DARTs decreased 11%, total client assets increased 13%, average equities client credit balances increased 11%, and average equities client margin balances increased 42%. Below in tabular format are year-over-year comparisons of those metrics on both a monthly and quarterly basis:

Additional information regarding the company's business metrics can be found on TradeStation Group's Web site at .

About TradeStation Group, Inc.

TradeStation Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: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 electronic order execution and enables clients to design, test, optimize, monitor and automate their own custom Equities, Options, Futures and Forex trading strategies.

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 Boston Options Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Chicago Stock Exchange, International Securities Exchange and NASDAQ OMX. 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: David H. Fleischman Chief Financial Officer TradeStation Group, Inc. 954-652-7000