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TradeStation Group Reports Monthly Business Metrics

    Plantation FL, April 25, 2006 – TradeStation Group, Inc. (NasdaqNM: TRAD) today reported the following business metrics for the month ended March 31, 2006:

    • 59,107 Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs)
    • Total client assets of $1.5 billion (as of March 31, 2006)

    Year over year, TradeStation’s DARTs increased 48% and total client assets increased 29%. Below in tabular format are year-over-year comparisons of those metrics on both a monthly and quarterly basis:

    TradeStation Securities Business Metrics
      Mar-06 Mar-05 Mar-06
    vs.
    Mar-05    		 Qtr Ended
    3/31/06     		Qtr Ended
    3/31/05    		 Qtr Ended
    3/31/06
    vs.
    Qtr Ended
    3/31/05
    Trading Days 23.0 22.0 N.M. 62.0 61.0 N.M.
    Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs) 59,107 39,960 48% 59,057 39,801 48%
    Total Client Assets ($MM), end of period $1,528 $1,182 29% $1,528 $1,182 29%

    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 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, 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. 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, 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
    InvestorRelations@TradeStation.com

    Call a TradeStation Specialist 800.808.9336

     

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