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.