Discover Trading Opportunities With IDEAS – An Innovative New Tool From optionsXpress

optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: OXPS) today unveiled IDEAS, a powerful new feature that allows investors to scan their existing positions to find new trading opportunities. IDEAS is designed to help investors uncover potential ways to modify their trading positions based on their current market perspective.

IDEAS leverages results directly from four popular optionsXpress tools:

• StrategyScan ^TM identifies strategies that align with the user’s investing goals, experience and risk level.
• Chart Patterns seeks out stocks that match an investor’s specific interests and spending limits.
• Trading Patterns shows what other like-minded investors are trading.
• Trade & Probability Calculator displays the projected risk, reward and financial feasibility of potential trading strategies.

"Providing the ability to quickly adjust to changing market conditions by using a variety of different investment products is what we do best at optionsXpress,” Chief Executive Officer David Fisher says. "The introduction of IDEAS underscores that effort by delivering a diverse array of different stock, options and futures alternatives for customers to consider.”

The latest major upgrade to the award-winning optionsXpress trading platform (www.optionsxpress.com) includes several other noteworthy developments:

myOX

The myOX portal continues to change the way optionsXpress investors organize their trading desktops. The most recent added features and functionalities in this area include:

• A new streaming FleXChart application.
• A new Market Watch module for a convenient overview of the day’s markets.
• Increased customization features for the Watch List and Positions modules.

Tools for Futures

Two of our most popular tools have been upgraded to include futures and futures options. Both the Trade & Probability Calculator and the Pricer now allow futures traders to better analyze their current and potential positions and strategies.

Wish List Items

As with every optionsXpress site upgrade, the current release includes several developments suggested directly by customers on the company’s popular Wish List, including:

• New Click, Drag and Drop sorting for Watch Lists and Alerts pages.
• Direct access to optionsXpress’ homegrown Xpound and Xpresso blogs from the firm’s expanded Research Center.

More information – including online demos of many of the firm’s powerful trading tools – is available at www.optionsxpress.com.

About optionsXpress Holdings, Inc.

optionsXpress Holdings, Inc., a pioneer in equity options and futures trading, offers an innovative suite of online brokerage services for investor education, strategy evaluation and trade execution. optionsXpress Holdings subsidiaries include optionsXpress, Inc., a retail online brokerage specializing in options and futures, brokersXpress, LLC, an online trading and reporting platform for independent investment professionals, Open E Cry, an innovative futures broker offering direct-access futures trading through its proprietary software platform, and Optionetics, Inc., a leading provider of investment education services, including live seminars, proprietary software analytics, online and offline educational products and individual coaching to over 40,000 potential investors annually in 12 countries.

Barron's named optionsXpress the number one online broker for four years in a row (2003 to 2006) and among the best for options, long-term investing and usability in 2009. Kiplinger's Personal Finance named it the top discount broker in 2006.

"Best Online Broker" 3/6/06, 3/7/05, 3/8/04, 3/10/03, and one of Barron's Best Online Brokers 3/3/07 and 3/16/09 based on: Trade Experience; Trade Tech; Usability; Offerings; Research; Portfolio Analysis; Customer Service/Access; Costs. Barron's is a registered trademark of Dow Jones & Company (C) 2009.

"Best Online Broker" by Kiplinger's 7/06, based on: Commissions/Fees; Executions; Margin Rates; Interest on Cash; Maximum Fund Transaction Fee; Responsiveness/Broker Knowledge; Research; Web Site; Cost-Basis Data; Conduct. Kiplinger's is a trademark of The Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc. (C) 2009.

Online trading has inherent risk due to system response and access times that may vary due to market conditions, system performance, volume and other factors. An investor should understand these and additional risks before trading. optionsXpress, Inc. makes no investment recommendations and does not provide financial, tax or legal advice. Content and tools are provided for educational and informational purposes only. Products and services intended for U.S. customers and may not be available or offered in other jurisdictions.

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