CHICAGO, April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OptionsXpress Holdings, Inc. today announced that it will report results for the first quarter on Thursday, April 21, 2005, and broadcast a conference call to discuss these results at 10:00 am central time.

The call will be Webcast by CCBN and can be accessed on the optionsXpress website at http://www.optionsxpress.com/ . The Webcast will be archived on this site for one year. The Webcast will also be available over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network. Individual investors can listen to the call at http://www.companyboardroom.com/ , or by visiting any of the sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network (such as America Online's Personal Finance Channel and Fidelity.com). Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's event management site, StreetEvents ( http://www.streetevents.com/ ).

About OptionsXpress Holdings, Inc.

OptionsXpress Holdings, Inc. provides innovative securities brokerage products and services for investor education, strategy evaluation and trade execution. Through its subsidiaries optionsXpress, an online brokerage, and brokersXpress, an online trading and reporting platform for independent investment professionals, the company offers a wide range of investor tools, licensed customer service and competitive commissions. OptionsXpress has been named the top online securities brokerage by Barron's in its last three annual surveys (2003, 2004 and 2005) and the top discount securities brokerage by SmartMoney in 2004. It was also named "Favorite Options Site" by Forbes Best of the Web in 2004.

CONTACT: Investor Inquiries, Kimberly Bartholomew of Ashton Partners,
+1-312-553-4296, or Media Inquiries, Josh Inglis of Scanlon Corporate
Communications, +1-312-822-9299

Web site: http://www.optionsxpress.com/