TradeStation Group Reports Monthly Business Metrics
September 05 2006 - 8:40AM
PR Newswire (US)
PLANTATION, Fla., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TradeStation
Group, Inc. (Nasdaq GS: TRAD) today reported the following business
metrics for the month ended August 31, 2006: - 55,166 Daily Average
Revenue Trades (DARTs) - Total client assets of $1.5 billion (as of
August 31, 2006) Year over year, TradeStation's DARTs increased 40%
and total client assets increased 20%. Below in tabular format are
year-over-year comparisons of those metrics on both a monthly and
quarterly basis: TradeStation Securities Business Metrics Q3-06
QTD* Aug-06 vs. Qtr vs. Q3-06 Qtr Ended Ended Aug-06 Aug-05 Aug-05
QTD* 9/30/05 9/30/05 ------ ------ ------ ----- --------- -------
Trading Days 23.0 23.0 N.M. 42.5 64.0 N.M. Daily Average Revenue
Trades (DARTs) 55,166 39,496 40% 57,729 41,206 40% Total Client
Assets ($MM), end of period $1,513 $1,260 20% $1,513 $1,296 17%
Additional information regarding the company's business metrics can
be found on TradeStation Group's Web site at
http://www.tradestation.com/aboutus/businessmetrics.shtm. * Q3-06
quarter-to-date (QTD) means results for the two months ended August
31, 2006. 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 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. 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 DATASOURCE: TradeStation Group, Inc. CONTACT:
David H. Fleischman, Chief Financial Officer of TradeStation Group,
Inc., +1-954-652-7000 Web site: http://www.tradestation.com/
http://www.tradestation.com/aboutus/businessmetrics.shtm
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