TradeStation Ranked #16 in Forbes Magazine's List of America's 200 Best Small Companies
October 19 2006 - 8:25AM
PR Newswire (US)
PLANTATION, Fla., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TradeStation
Group (Nasdaq GS: TRAD) was ranked #16 by Forbes magazine in its
list of America's 200 Best Small Companies. The magazine takes into
account several factors in deciding the rankings, including
historical return on equity, sales and EPS growth, recent sales,
net income and stock price, 2007 price/earnings ratio estimates and
recent market value. To be considered for the rankings, the company
must have a minimum $5.00 per share stock price, revenues between
$5 million and $750 million, at least a 5% profit margin, and meet
other requirements. The featured article, "America's 200 Best Small
Companies," appears in the October 30, 2006 issue of Forbes. "To be
named #16 of America's 200 Best Small Companies by Forbes magazine
is a great honor for our company," said Bill Cruz, Co-Chairman of
the Board and Co-CEO of TradeStation Group. "We are extremely
grateful for the dedication and hard work our employees contributed
to have made this possible." 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/
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