LIGHTSPEED TRADING LAUNCHES ENHANCED CHARTING CAPABILITIES

NEW YORK, June 11, 2009 — Lightspeed Financial, LLC, a leading provider of direct market access trading technology, risk management solutions, and brokerage services for professional retail active traders and institutional investors, today announced that it launched a new and improved charting package, Lightspeed Trader Charts, which builds on Lightspeed’s existing proprietary charting features and provides customers with even more dynamic, customizable and faster charting capabilities to further enhance their trading experience.

“The rollout of our enhanced charting is part of our ongoing effort to meet the demands of professional traders and institutions in a rapidly changing market environment,” said Andrew Actman, chief strategy officer, Lightspeed Financial. “Our customers place great emphasis on access to trading tools and research and we pride ourselves on our ability to exceed expectations and deliver the most comprehensive, fastest and most stable trading technology available anywhere. Any firm can promise customers the ‘best’ offering, but what keeps our customers trading with us is our ability to deliver on our word.”

Key features of the enhanced Lightspeed Trader Charts include:

• Enhanced efficiency – technology upgrade allows for quicker population of the charting screen through optimized code and more intelligent utilization of multi-core processors, offering Lightspeed customers lightning fast access to real-time market data and stock history
• Greater customization – traders can easily link charts to specific Level II screens, create hot buttons to view multiple charts with different time-frame parameters from a single screen, increase or decrease the time horizon within the charts with a simple scroll of the mouse wheel and drag and drop the charts anywhere within the trading screen
• More dynamic data sets – extensive range of charts offered including capability to compare a price chart with another symbol, index or futures contract with Comparison Charts, as well as several studies including moving averages, relative strength indicators, MACD indicators, and Bollinger Bands as well as several types of trend lines

Scott Ignall, chief technology officer, Lightspeed Financial, added, “The ongoing challenge for us is how to make an already lightning fast system even faster, while at the same time constantly improving the trading experience through greater customization and enhanced functionality. For our customers, speed and stability are paramount. We work tirelessly to build upon these core components to create the most dynamic offering available, without sacrificing the key elements that help our customers stay miles ahead of the competition.”

Existing Lightspeed Trading customers can download the Lightspeed Trader Charts by upgrading to the latest version of Lightspeed Trader on the firm’s homepage. New customers will automatically receive the charting upgrade with their software package

About Lightspeed Financial, LLC

Headquartered in New York City, Lightspeed Financial operates through three wholly-owned subsidiaries:

Lightspeed Trading, LLC operates as a fully disclosed introducing broker-dealer and FINRA and NFA member. The Company offers securities and direct access brokerage, trading and advanced order routing services to their customers utilizing Lightspeed’s software products.

Lightspeed Technologies, LLC serves as the Company’s technology development subsidiary. Lightspeed develops and operates Lightspeed Trader, Lightspeed’s Direct Market Access trading software application; Lightspeed Gateway, Lightspeed’s algorithmic trading offering; Lightspeed Risk, a real-time risk management application; and Lightspeed Admin, Middle Office Technology suite. Utilizing a number of proprietary technologies, Lightspeed offers these products and more to broker-dealers, institutional entities and professional traders.

Lightspeed Education, LLC delivers educational products to the Lightspeed Trading, LLC customer community. These products include third party educational tools, webinars and the Lightspeed Spotlight social community.
www.lightspeed.com

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