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Optionable, Inc. is a leading provider of natural gas and other energy derivatives trading and brokerage services. The company provides its services to brokerage firms, financial institutions, energy traders and hedge funds nationwide. Optionable is a public company with its stock trading on the OTC Bulletin Board. Optionable provides its customers a full range of trading strategies, including voice brokerage, floor brokerage services at the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and Optionable has developed an automated derivatives trading platform named OPEX. Drawing upon the more than twenty years of experience of its senior traders, Optionable worked closely with the customers to tailor trades and develop the best trading strategies to meet the customers' investment objectives. OPEX is a real-time electronic trade matching and brokerage system designed to improve liquidity and transparency in the energy derivatives market. OPEX, is designed to be the first of its kind real-time electronic trade matching and brokerage system featuring trading strategies used by professional options traders. OPEX trading platform has also been certified to connect with the NYMEX ClearPort(r) electronic trading and clearing platform. Optionable was founded with the goal of creating a comprehensive electronic options trading platform that eliminates the inherent inefficiencies of the traditional open-outcry and over the counter (OTC) trading environments. Optionable's founders recognized that there is a specific void in the current open-outcry and OTC marketplaces. The traditional open-outcry system, currently used on the trading floors of regulated commodity exchanges throughout the world, suffers from a number of serious drawbacks. These markets cannot provide their traders with vital information such as the size of the best bid or ask price. Some trading pits have grown so large that it is virtually impossible to hear what is trading on the opposite side of the pit. This creates an un-level playing field where a trader's financial success can largely be affected by where he or she is located in a particular trading pit. Additionally, traders are limited by the exchange listed strike prices and expiration dates and do not have the flexibility to create trades with customized strike prices or expiration dates. The over the counter (OTC) commodity market is a broker dominated telephone based marketplace. Market participants depend solely upon their brokers to supply them with all market information and trade confirmations. As a result, the current OTC trading process fails in the fundamental market function of matching the best seller with the best buyer because there is no centralized marketplace where all participants can simultaneously receive accurate market information. Additionally, the telephone-based system is not electronic and therefore cannot be integrated into the customer's own computer systems. This lack of a computerized audit trail results in error prone and overhead intensive back office operations for all market participants. Electronic order matching and brokerage through OPEX will help risk managers and back offices with mark to markets. Options are an effective tool used by producers and end users to minimize risk, and serve as a speculative vehicle for risk takers who provide liquidity to market participants. While many in the trading community have rushed to develop electronic trading systems, options trading capabilities have thus far been lost in the shuffle. Even when options trading has been built into a system, it has been done as an afterthought. OPEX was designed specifically for options and swaps trading by professional derivatives traders. Harnessing the power of the Internet, OPEX intends to greatly improve the way derivatives are currently traded and to expand the number of markets where derivatives can be used. © Copyright 2000-2008 Optionable, Inc.