Announcement of Subsidiary’s Release

TOKYO, March 28, 2018 – TradeStation Group, Inc., a fully owned subsidiary of Monex Group, Inc.,
issued the following press release yesterday.
Attachment: TradeStation Group, Inc. press release
TradeStation Receives Highest Rating of 4 ½ Stars for “Best for Frequent Traders” for Eighth
Consecutive Year in Barron’s Magazine’s Annual Ranking of Online Brokerage Firms

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 Receives Highest Rating of 4 ½ Stars for “Best for Frequent Traders” for Eighth
Consecutive Year in Barron’s Magazine’s Annual Ranking of Online Brokerage Firms
Plantation, Florida
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
TradeStation, a Monex Group company and award-winning* online broker-dealer and futurescommission merchant, received the highest rating of 4 ½ stars for “Best for Frequent Traders” for theeighth consecutive year in Barron’s magazine’s annual review of online brokerage firms, now in its
twenty-third year.
TradeStation was also rated among the top online brokers for options traders, earning 4 stars in thecategory of “Best for Options Traders.”
Across the eight major categories surveyed by Barron’s – Trade Experience and Technology; Usability;Mobile; Range of Offerings; Research Amenities; Portfolio Analysis and Reports; Customer Service,Education, Security; and Costs – TradeStation ranked among the top five online brokers overall.
In its review, Barron’s highlighted the latest version of TradeStation’s platform, noting that it “features amuch easier-to-use experience” as well as TradeStation Today, “a trader’s home base” with “educationalcontent, market update videos and other new tools.” Barron’s noted that TradeStation’s platform
customization and charting options have been simplified, and that mobile customers can now tap into
TradeStation’s new “Trader Concierge, which provides notifications on news, price changes, andtechnical alerts, based on the account’s holdings.”“We’re honored to once again receive the highest rating in the category of ‘Best for Frequent Traders’ inBarron’s latest survey of the leading online brokerages,” said John Bartleman, President of TradeStation
Group, Inc. “In the past year, we’ve freshened TradeStation’s look and simplified our user experience,
while remaining steadfast in our commitment to producing the absolute best trading technology andtools available to active traders and investors.”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 tradermarkets. 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 licensed securities
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, andhosts the TradingApp® Store.
* Visit TradeStation.com/Awards for more information.