TradeStation Wins 9 Major Awards PLANTATION, Fla., Feb. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TradeStation has won the Readers' Choice Awards for best Direct-Access Stock Brokerage for the fifth year in a row, over competitors that included Charles Schwab's Cybertrader, Fidelity Active Trader Pro, and Interactive Brokers, and has won best Futures Brokerage for the third year in a row, over competitors that included Interactive Brokers, Lind-Waldock, Man Futures, and R.J. O'Brien. The Readers' Choice Awards are given by "Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities" magazine, one of the most respected periodicals for active traders. TradeStation was also rated higher as a Stock Brokerage overall - not as just a direct-access brokerage - than Charles Schwab, E*Trade, Fidelity Brokerage, OptionsXpress, Scottrade Financial Services and TD Ameritrade. TradeStation also won, for the fifth consecutive year, the Readers' Choice Awards for best Institutional Platform and best Professional Platform. The finalists in those other categories included Bloomberg and Reuters for Institutional Platform, and CQG and Schwab's CyberTrader for Professional Platform. In addition, TradeStation won, for the third year in a row, the Readers' Choice Awards for best Trading Systems - Stocks, best Trading Systems - Futures, best Trading Systems - Options, and best Options Analysis Software and, for the fourth consecutive year, best Subscription Internet Analytical Platform. "Having the readers of a publication as respected as "Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities" rate us number one in nine different categories, particularly up against some of the largest and most well-known companies in our industry, is a great honor," said Salomon Sredni, CEO of TradeStation Group, the parent company of TradeStation Securities and TradeStation Technologies. To speak with a registered representative about TradeStation or opening an equities, options, futures or forex account with TradeStation Securities, a NASD, NYSE, SIPC and NFA member firm, call 1-800-808-9336, or visit http://www.tradestation.com/. Institutional traders should call 1-800-579-7616. 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 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, 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, and FSA-authorized brokerage firm, introduces UK and other European accounts to TradeStation Securities. Contact -- Janette Perez Vice President of Strategic Relations TradeStation Technologies, Inc. 954-652-7000 DATASOURCE: TradeStation Group, Inc. CONTACT: Janette Perez, Vice President of Strategic Relations of TradeStation Technologies, Inc., +1-954-652-7000 Web site: http://www.tradestation.com/

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