TradeStation Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:TRAD) today reported the following business metrics for the month ended October 31, 2010:
  • 75,850 Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs)
  • Total client assets of $2.3 billion (as of October 31, 2010)
  • Average equities client credit balances of $950 million
  • Average equities client margin balances of $55 million

Year over year, TradeStation's DARTs decreased 13%, total client assets increased 14%, average equities client credit balances increased 10%, and average equities client margin balances increased 25%. Below in tabular format are year-over-year comparisons of those metrics on both a monthly and quarterly basis:

TradeStation Securities 
Business Metrics 
  Oct-10 Oct-09 Oct-10  vs.  Oct-09 Q4-10 QTD* Qtr Ended 12/31/09 Q4-10 QTD* vs. Qtr Ended  12/31/09
             
Trading Days 21.0 22.0 N.M. 21.0 63.0 N.M.
             
Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs) 75,850 87,193 -13% 75,850 79,179 -4%
             
Total Client Assets ($MM), end of period $2,288 $2,005 14% $2,288 $2,066 11%
             
Average Equities Client Credit Balances ($MM) $950 $865 10% $950 $869 9%
             
Average Equities Client Margin Balances ($MM) $55 $44 25% $55 $44 25%

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

*Q4-10 quarter-to-date (QTD) means results for the month ended October 31, 2010.

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
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