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TradeStation Group Reports Monthly Business Metrics

TradeStation Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRAD) today reported the following business metrics for the month ended August 31, 2009:

  • 76,808 Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs)
  • Total client assets of $1.9 billion (as of August 31, 2009)
  • Average equities client credit balances of $833 million
  • Average equities client margin balances of $36 million

Year over year, TradeStation’s DARTs decreased 17%, total client assets increased 6%, average equities client credit balances increased 30%, and average equities client margin balances decreased 60%. Below in tabular format are year-over-year comparisons of those metrics on both a monthly and quarterly basis:

TradeStation Securities
Business Metrics
                                   
Aug-09       Aug-08      

Aug-09

vs.

Aug-08

     

 

 

Q3-09

QTD*

     

Qtr Ended

9/30/08

     

Q3-09

QTD* vs.

Qtr Ended

9/30/08

 
Trading Days 21.0 21.0 N.M. 43.0 63.5 N.M.
 

Daily Average Revenue

Trades (DARTs)

76,808 92,824 -17% 78,274 108,507 -28%
 

Total Client Assets ($MM),

end of period

$1,933 $1,818 6% $1,933 $1,743 11%
 

Average Equities Client

Credit Balances ($MM)

$833 $643 30% $818 $650 26%
 

Average Equities Client

Margin Balances ($MM)

$36 $89 -60% $37 $88 -58%

Additional information regarding the company’s business metrics can be found on TradeStation Group’s Web site at www.tradestation.com/aboutus/businessmetrics.shtm.

*Q3-09 quarter-to-date (QTD) means results for the two-month period ended August 31, 2009.

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.

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