TradeStation Group Reports Monthly Business Metrics

    Plantation FL, July 20, 2006—TradeStation Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: TRAD) today reported the following business metrics for the month ended June 30, 2006:

    • 58,979 Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs)
    • Total client assets of $1.5 billion (as of June 30, 2006)

    Year over year, TradeStation's DARTs increased 49% 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
    June-06 June-05 June-06 vs. June-05 Qtr Ended 6/30/06 Qtr Ended 6/30/05 Qtr Ended 6/30/06 vs. Qtr Ended 6/30/05
    Trading Days 22.0 22.0 N.M. 63.0 64.0 N.M.
    Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs) 58,979 39,573 49% 62,461 41,086 52%
    Total Client Assets ($MM), end of period $1,491 $1,242 20% $$1,491 $1,242 20%

    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. (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 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, 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.

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