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The Dragon^SM

Let the Dragon help you "slay" the market! Scan for stocks and options that match your chosen criteria – from stock activity to P/E plays to percentage change. The Dragon ranks the top 50 results from your search with convenient links to pre-populated order forms, options chains and charts.

Level: Beginner

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Market Calendars

Get a better handle on your investing days, weeks and months. Find out when earnings reports, futures and option expirations, dividend announcements and IPOs are coming with our wide range of handy market calendars.

Level: Beginner

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Market News

It's difficult to be a successful investor without being an informed investor. From the intraday market updates of Briefing.com, MarketWatch and TheStreet.com to streaming news from Dow Jones to the latest put/call ratios, optionsXpress helps you stay up-to-date on all of the information affecting your investments.

Level: Beginner

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Market Stats

Check out the latest activity of the major indexes and their components, find out where the action is with the most active issues at the major exchanges, find out which stocks have been recently upgraded or downgraded by analysts, and see who's heading higher or lower with our up-to-the-minute market statistics.

Level: Beginner

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Trading Patterns^SM

Can you keep up with the Dow by keeping up with the Joneses? Find out by entering a security symbol into Trading Patterns to help find what other anonymous like-minded investors are trading. Who knows? Your next great investing idea might come from someone just like you.

Level: Beginner

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Quote Detail

Why take the time and effort to shop around for every little bit and piece of data? All of the trading information you need is available right here – current and historical quotes, earnings information, valuation ratios, S&P research and much more – as well as convenient direct links to news, charts, chains, and the Option Pricer.

Level: Beginner

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StrategyScan^SM

Find an investment strategy that aligns with your investing goals, trading experience and risk level. Preview up to three opportunities based on your criteria – complete with maximum potential gain, risk profile and profit and loss characteristics – or view a matrix of up to nine different possibilities.

Level: Beginner

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Toolbar

The optionsXpress Toolbar is your customized shortcut – right where you need it, right when you need it. With continuous access to your account information, quotes, and tools, the Toolbar puts access to the information and resources you use most often at your fingertips.

Level: Beginner

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TradeWizard

You've done your research, weighed the alternatives, assessed the risk, and now it's time to place the trade. The Wizard makes our easy-to-use trading platform even easier, guiding you step-by-step through an entire stock, option or futures order ticket to complete either a basic or advanced trade.

Level: Beginner

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Virtual Trade

Get your feet wet before you take the plunge. Our Virtual Trade feature allows you to utilize real-feel optionsXpress account screens, tools and resources to gain trading experience and test strategies without putting any money on the line.

Level: Beginner

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Alert Manager

The only thing more important than being able to set multiple alerts – based on price, time, earnings, dividends or market conditions – is having the ability to keep them all straight. Use the Alert Manager to help organize your trading and streamline your early-warning system.

Level: Beginner

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Trader's Journal

Dear diary – this is a great way to keep a log of all your thoughts and ideas. See a piece of news that might come in handy? Find a new strategy that you may want to try out down the line? Memorialize it in your handy virtual notebook for easy reference later.

Level: Beginner

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Watch Lists

With all of the possibilities available at optionsXpress, managing your current positions and tracking potential investments in one convenient place has never been more important. Create and organize multiple lists of current positions and potential purchases, set alerts and make notes, and access order forms and charts quickly and easily.

Level: Beginner

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Widget

Keep the pulse of the markets at your fingertips with this handy desktop application. Get quick, convenient access to a compact version of our Quote Detail feature, basic order forms, real-time quotes, a variety of charts, and real-time information on account equity, buying power, positions and orders.

Level: Beginner

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Chart Patterns^SM

Start with variables like market capitalization, time frame, price range and trend and funnel down the investing universe into an easy-to-read chart of up to twenty stocks ranked by how closely they meet your interests and spending limits. Technical traders can take advantage of Advanced Chart Patterns to map out double bottoms, wedges, pennants and more.

Level: Intermediate

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Exchange Traded Funds Center

ETF traders can find everything they need – all in one place – in our Exchange Traded Funds Center. It's a modified version of our Quote Detail feature, enhanced with ETF-specific tools and information for researching this growing marketplace.

Level: Intermediate

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The Screener^SM

Put the Screener to work canvassing the market for potential stock, option, mutual fund, or ETF opportunities – as well as option strategy situations like covered calls, spreads and protective puts – based on your preset criteria, from volatility and volume to P/E ratio and dividend yield.

Level: Intermediate

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Chains

Why bounce around a half-dozen screens looking for all of the information you need to construct a particular strategy? Our easy-to-use Option Chains let you view real-time quotes for each leg of virtually every option strategy, determine an option's intrinsic and time value, build complex spreads and place trades with just one click.

Level: Intermediate

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Trade Calculator

There's more to affording a trade than just price. Determine the risk and reward of the investments you're considering, check out your potential buying power, and gauge the financial feasibility of a few potential strategies using the Trade and Margin Calculator.

Level: Intermediate

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XpressCharts^SM

These may be our "basic" charts, but there's nothing basic about them. With dozens of technical studies to choose from for easy customization, XpressCharts allow you to mix and match until you find a picture that best suits you.

Level: Intermediate

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Saved Orders

This feature allows you to fill out your orders when it's convenient and gives you the time to really think them through. Get prepared by setting up and saving up to 50 trades for future use without actually placing them.

Level: Intermediate

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Position Analyzer

Where do you stand? Sometimes it's not so easy to tell. That's why our Position Analyzer lays it out clearly, with an easy-to-read graphical breakdown of your portfolio in terms of asset distribution and profit potential. Check the overall picture or look at individual holdings – it's up to you.

Level: Intermediate

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Xspreads^® Spread Book

Spread traders have their own dedicated corner of the investing world at optionsXpress. Shop for potential spread trading opportunities by accessing liquidity information, spread chains and pre-filled trade tickets all in one convenient location.

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FleXCharts^SM

Quite simply, FleXCharts give you the most complete and detailed picture of the market. We call them "FleX" for a reason – these streaming charts allow you to customize your view of the market with more than 100 different technical studies, then save your personalized set-ups for future use.

Level: Advanced

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Option Pricer

Variables like strike price, time to expiration, and implied volatility are dynamic, making it difficult to understand how a change in only one of them might affect an option's price. The Option Pricer helps you get the theoretical Greeks to understand how changing market conditions might affect the price of your option investment.

Level: Advanced

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Volatility View^SM

Volatility may be the "great unknown" in option pricing, but it certainly can't be ignored. Volatility View allows investors to conveniently look back over a stock's 3-, 6- and 12-month price movements to get a better feel for where it may be headed next.

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Xtend^®

Trade like the big guys with this FREE, all-in-one trading console for your desktop. Trade stocks, options, spreads, and futures with streaming quotes, and customize the layout to display only those features that are most important to your day-to-day trading style.

Level: Advanced

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Multi-leg option strategies are subject to multiple commissions. Profits may be eroded by the commission expended to open and close the positions and other risks apply. Advanced orders involve additional risks.

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