TradeStation Group Reports Monthly Business Metrics

• Press Release
• Source: TradeStation Group, Inc.
• On 7:40 am EST, Tuesday January 6, 2009

PLANTATION, Fla., Jan. 6, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TradeStation Group, Inc. (NasdaqGS:TRAD - News) today reported the following business metrics for the month ended December 31, 2008:

 * 94,030 Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs)
 * Total client assets of $1.6 billion (as of December 31, 2008)
 * Average equities client credit balances of $672 million
 * Average equities client margin balances of $30 million

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Year over year, TradeStation's DARTs increased 22%, total client assets decreased 11%, average equities client credit balances increased 12%, and average equities client margin balances decreased 70%. Below in tabular format are year-over-year comparisons of those metrics on both a monthly and quarterly basis:

                             TradeStation Securities
                                 Business Metrics


                                                             Qtr Ended
                                                              12/31/08
                                     Dec-08    Qtr      Qtr   vs. Qtr
                                       vs.    Ended    Ended   Ended
                   Dec-08   Dec-07   Dec-07 12/31/08 12/31/07 12/31/07
                  ----------------------------------------------------
 Trading Days        21.5     19.5     N.M.     63.0     63.0     N.M.

 Daily Average
  Revenue Trades
  (DARTs)          94,030   77,033      22%  121,195   90,224      34%

 Total Client
  Assets ($MM),
  end of period    $1,590   $1,789     -11%   $1,590   $1,789     -11%

 Average Equities
  Client Credit
  Balances ($MM)     $672     $598      12%     $664     $582      14%

 Average Equities
  Client Margin
  Balances ($MM)      $30      $99     -70%      $38      $97     -61%

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.

 About TradeStation Group, Inc.
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TradeStation Group, Inc. (NasdaqGS:TRAD - News), 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 Euronext, 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.

          David H. Fleischman
          Chief Financial Officer
          TradeStation Group, Inc.
          954-652-7000