OptionsXpress
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Financial Services/Brokerages |
| Founded | Chicago, IL (2000) |
| Headquarters | Chicago, IL, USA |
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Key people
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Joe Vietri, CEO Barry Metzger, CCO |
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Number of employees
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423 (December 2009) |
| Parent | Charles Schwab Corporation |
| Website | www |
optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. is a retail, online brokerage firm, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, that provides brokerage services for options, stocks, futures, mutual funds, and fixed income investments in the United States and internationally. Its browser-based technology provides trading tools, enabling investors to identify, analyze, and execute a range of investment strategies.
Virtual Trade, optionsXpress' virtual trading platform, gives customers the ability to test trading strategies and ideas under real market conditions, without putting real money on the line.
The Charles Schwab Corporation and optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. announced on March 21, 2011 that Schwab will acquire optionsXpress.
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. Top rankings have also been awarded to optionsXpress by Forbes and Kiplinger's.
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