OptionsXpress

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optionsXpress Holdings Inc.
Type Public (NASDAQOXPS)
Founded Chicago, IL (2000)
Headquarters Chicago, IL, USA
Industry Brokerages
Employees 320 (2006)
Website www.optionsxpress.com

optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. is a retail, online brokerage firm, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, that provides brokerage services for options, stock, futures, mutual funds, and fixed-income investments in the United States and internationally. Its browser-based technology provides trading tools, enabling retail and professional investors to identify, analyze, and execute a range of investment strategies.[1]

Founded in 2000, optionsXpress has received numerous top rankings by personal finance publications, including the top-star ranking in the annual Barron's Magazine online broker review for five years in a row.[2] Top rankings have also been awarded to optionsXpress by Forbes[3] and Kiplinger's.[4]

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  1. ^ Profile at Yahoo! Finance.
  2. ^ Different strokes for . . ., Features, Barron's Online, Dow Jones WebReprint Service (March 6, 2006).
  3. ^ OptionsXpress, Website Reviews, Best of the Web, Forbes.com (2007).
  4. ^ The Best Online Broker: a relatively new player sweeps our rankings, by Steven Goldberg and Jessica Anderson, Trading, Kiplinger.com (July 2006).

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