Zacks Research Wizard Partners With MB Trading Navigator.

CHICAGO -- Zacks Investment Research, today announced that it would integrate trade execution into its Research Wizard screening and backtesting software through an alliance with MB Trading (MBT), the trading firm ranked tops in trade execution and #1 overall by Barron's annual brokerage ranking.

"We're extremely excited to have aligned with MB Trading." Said Len Zacks, founder and CEO of Zacks Investment Research, "Although the Zacks methods for stock selection are used by investors and traders alike, this alliance represents our first opportunity to really concentrate on the active trader segment of the population."

"MB Trading has a reputation for aligning with industry leading companies" says Ross Ditlove, CEO and co-founder of MB Trading. "This new relationship with Zacks will allow clients of both firms to benefit from leading technologies within one offering"

The relationship means that subscribers can create a multi-stock execution window for their Zacks Research Wizard -generated strategies by clicking on an MB Trading link located right on the Research Wizard interface. All the trades in the window can then be executed with another click of the mouse.

"We seek out integration partners based on their abilities to improve the trading and investing lives of our customers," said Steve Reitmeister, Executive Vice President of the Zacks Retail Group. ."We wanted to make the trading process more convenient for our Research Wizard clients and MB Trading offers the flexibility and capabilities necessary to integrate the technologies. I'm confident that they can provide the same level of expertise and service to our customers; and that this is the first of many future projects with MB."

"This is the first time that Research Wizard clients have had the opportunity to execute directly through the platform; and the first opportunity for many of them to access our execution management system (EMS)," commented David Lipsett, Executive Vice President of MB Trading, "This union is right in line with our growth initiatives for 2007, which is to utilize our FIX/SDK infrastructure and find best-of-breed partners to continually improve the trading experience for our customers."

About MB Trading:

MB Trading offers online stock, options, futures, and Forex trading through their proprietary platform, the MBT Navigator. MB Trading also offers smart order routing via MBTX, which intelligently scans market makers, ECNs, exchanges, and dark pools of liquidity for the best available execution price. Securities products are offered through MB Trading, member NASD, SIPC. MB Trading Futures, Inc. (MBTF) and 3DForex, LLC are CFTC registered FCMs and members of NFA. MBTF offers execution and settlement services for futures based products, as well as off-exchange foreign currency (Forex) products through MB Trading. 3DForex, LLC offers Forex products only to institutional customers. The MBT Navigator is the only order entry system that integrates seamlessly into the industry's leading quote providers, including eSignal, QCharts, QuoteTracker, and several other third-party applications.

About Zacks

Research Wizard is a property of Zacks Investment Research, Inc., The Research Wizard was designed to help the average investor easily find these patterns to beat the market. Learn more about the Research Wizard and free trial offer at http://www.zacks.com/researchwizard/index.php?site=pt

Founded in 1978, Zacks began processing, organizing and evaluating research produced by US brokerage firms. Today Zacks receives daily electronic data feeds and printed research reports on over 10,000 companies from over 185 brokerage firms, produced by more than 3,200 analysts amounting to over 500,000 pages of brokerage research. In addition, ZIR records 25,000 earnings estimate revisions and changes in broker recommendations weekly. This information is made available through institutional, and non-institutional product lines and web sites, as well as our own www.zacks.com. Zacks' early contribution to investment analysis was the discovery that earnings per share estimate revisions are the most powerful force affecting stock prices, which gave birth to the Zacks Indicator. This, along with being the first to calculate consensus EPS estimates of quarterly earnings (1981), and to create the concept of EPS surprises, as well as the first to analyze price response to EPS surprises placed Zacks among the top innovating pioneers in the industry.

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