TradeStation Group Reports Monthly Business Metrics
Plantation FL, April 22, 2010- TradeStation Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: TRAD) today reported the following business metrics for the month ended March 31, 2010:
- 73,231 Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs)
- Total client assets of $2.1 billion (as of March 31, 2010)
- Average equities client credit balances of $896 million
- Average equities client margin balances of $47 million
Year over year, TradeStation’s DARTs decreased 32%, total client assets increased 26%, average equities client credit balances increased 25%, and average equities client margin balances increased 74%. Below in tabular format are year-over-year comparisons of those metrics on both a monthly and quarterly basis:
TradeStation Securities Business Metrics
| |
Dec-010 |
Dec-09 |
Dec-10
vs.
Dec-09 |
Qtr Ended
12/31/10 |
Qtr Ended
12/31/09 |
Qtr Ended
12/31/10
vs.
Qtr Ended
12/31/09 |
| Trading Days |
23.0 |
22.0 |
N.M. |
61.0 |
61.0 |
N.M. |
| Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs) |
73,231 |
107,385 |
-32% |
80,192 |
105,825 |
-24% |
| Total Client Assets ($MM), end of period |
$2,123 |
$2,123 |
26% |
$2,123 |
$1,687 |
26% |
| Average Equities Client Credit Balances ($MM) |
$896 |
$719 |
25% |
$879 |
$694 |
27% |
| Average Equities Client Margin Balances ($MM) |
$47 |
$27 |
74% |
$48 |
$29 |
66% |
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 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:
David H. Fleischman ,
Chief Financial Officer
TradeStation Group, Inc.
954 652-7000
InvestorRelations@TradeStation.com