Announcement of Subsidiary’s Release

TOKYO, January 31, 2018 – TradeStation Group, Inc., a fully owned subsidiary of Monex Group,Inc., issued the following press release on January 29, 2018.
Attachment: TradeStation Group, Inc. press release
TradeStation Ranked One of America’s “Top Five” Online Brokers and #1 for Equity Trading Tools
in Annual Investor’s Business Daily Survey of Active Investors
TradeStation Also Earns Highest Customer Experience Index Rating in Categories of Trade Ideas andMobile Trading Platforms.

Contact: Akiko Kato, Toshiaki Koike
Corporate Communications OfficeMonex Group, Inc.
+81-3-4323-8698
Atsushi Demoto, Yuki Nakano
Investor Relations, Financial Control Dept.
Monex Group, Inc.
+81-3-4323-8698
This material was made as a matter of record only and does not constitute an offer to sell or to solicit an offer to buy
securities in the U.S.

TradeStation Ranked One of America’s “Top Five” Online Brokers and#1 for Equity Trading Tools in Annual Investor’s Business Daily
Survey of Active Investors
TradeStation Also Earns Highest Customer Experience Index Rating in Categories ofTrade Ideas and Mobile Trading Platforms.
Plantation, Florida
Monday, January 29, 2018
TradeStation, a Monex Group company and award-winning* online broker-dealer and futures commission
merchant, has been ranked a “top five” online broker for Overall Customer Experience, the best broker for
Equity Trading Tools, and also received the highest customer experience index rating in Trade Ideas andMobile Trading Platforms in the sixth annual survey of active investors conducted by Investor’s Business
Daily (IBD).
“TradeStation made bold changes in 2017, including fee cuts and simplifying the online investing process,”noted IBD. “The changes paid off . . . . Respondents ranked TradeStation among the top five online
brokers overall as rated by its customers. It earned the highest Customer Experience Index rating inTrade Ideas, Equity Trading Tools and Mobile Trading Platforms. The Florida-based company also
earned superior reviews in Site Performance and Options Trading Platform. In all, it placed among thebest brokers in 13 of the 14 categories that investors rated as important.”
The IBD Best Online Brokers Report, published in the January 29, 2018 edition of IBD, is one of thelargest of its kind, with 5,052 self-identified active investors rating their experience with a total of 19 online
brokerages. It identifies the “top five” online brokers overall and in 14 categories as rated by the brokers’
own customers.
TradeStation ranked third among the “top five” brokers for Overall Customer Experience, a reflection of its
relative performance across the survey’s 14 categories. In addition to the previously mentioned
categories, TradeStation ranked among the top five brokers in the categories of Low Commissions &Fees, Trade Reliability, Research Tools, Investment Research, Low-Cost/Free ETF Trading, Portfolio
Analysis & Reports, Educational Resources and Investment & Retirement Planning Tools.
According to IBD, “TradeStation earned the top rating from customers for stock trading tools . . . and its
robust database is a large reason why. Hundreds of indicators and studies can be applied to over 40
years of data. TradeStation's EasyLanguage® lets investors do their own coding. With a little
programming, traders can back-test strategies to see how they would perform at different points in history.”“We are honored to be recognized by Investor’s Business Daily as one of the nation’s top-five onlinebrokers,” said John Bartleman, President of TradeStation Group, Inc. “In addition to receiving the highest
ranking for Equity Trading Tools, we’re especially gratified to also be highest ranked in the categories ofTrade Ideas and Mobile Trading Platforms. We know that every trader is looking for an edge, andTradeStation has devoted considerable resources to giving our clients actionable trade ideas as well as
greater flexibility in their ability to act on them.”About TradeStation Group, Inc.
TradeStation Group, Inc., through its principal operating subsidiary, TradeStation Securities, Inc., offers
the TradeStation analysis and trading platform to the active trader and certain institutional trader markets.
The TradeStation platform offers electronic order execution and enables clients to design, test, optimize,monitor and automate their own custom equities, options and futures trading strategies. TradeStation
Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Monex Group, Inc., one of the largest online financial services
providers in Japan.
TradeStation Securities, Inc. (Member NYSE, FINRA, SIPC, NSCC, DTC, OCC & CME) is a licensedsecurities broker-dealer and a registered futures commission merchant (FCM), and a member of major
stock, options and futures exchanges in the United States. The company’s technology subsidiary,
TradeStation Technologies, Inc., develops and offers strategy trading software tools and subscription
services, and hosts the TradingApp® Store.
* Visit TradeStation.com/Awards for more information.