TradeStation Rated Best Direct-Access Stock Brokerage and Best Futures Brokerage

TradeStation Wins 11 Major Awards

Plantation FL, February 27, 2006 — TradeStation has won the Readers’ Choice Awards for best Direct-Access Stock Brokerage for the fourth 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 second year in a row, over competitors that included Interactive Brokers, Lind-Waldock, Man Futures, and RJOFutures. 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 Ameritrade, Charles Schwab, E*Trade, Fidelity Brokerage, OptionsXpress, Scottrade Financial Services and TD Waterhouse.

TradeStation also won, for the fourth consecutive year, the Readers’ Choice Awards for best Direct-Access Futures Brokerage, best Institutional Platform, and best Professional Platform. The finalists in those other categories included Bloomberg and Reuters for Institutional Platform, CQG for Professional Platform, and Interactive Brokers and Lind-Waldock for Direct-Access Futures Brokerage.

In addition, TradeStation won, for the second 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 third consecutive year, best Subscription Internet Analytical Platform. The company also won, for the second consecutive year, best Trading Centers, School, Training.

“Having the readers of a publication as respected as Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities rate us number one in eleven different categories, particularly up against some of the largest and most well-known companies in our industry, is a great honor,” said Bill Cruz, Co-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. (NasdaqNM: 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 trading strategies. In 2005, TradeStation was named Best Stock Brokerage and Best Futures Brokerage and, for the third 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. The trading platform currently offers streaming real-time Equities, Options, Futures and Forex market data.

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, Eurex US, 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 —
Janette Perez
Vice President of Strategic Relations
TradeStation Technologies, Inc.
954-652-7000