Press Release

Online Trading Academy Awards Chicago Franchise

New Chicago Owners join the Growing Online Trading Academy Franchise Network

Irvine, CA, May 5, 2010 - Online Trading Academy awards the Chicago, IL financial education center to brothers Nizar and Haider Istanbouli. Nizar and Haider have extensive backgrounds in the financial industry, and bring with them lots of financial experience. They are happy about this new venture with Online Trading Academy and look forward to helping and educating people in their Chicago franchise location. “We are excited to be here and are looking forward to helping our students take their trading and investing to the next level,” said Haider.

“We are very pleased to have Nizar and Haider join our team, as they are passionate about our business and committed to bringing the Chicago center to even greater heights,” said Eyal Shahar, President and founder of Online Trading Academy. “This is a great opportunity for the people of Chicago who are traders or want to become traders, to learn the skills necessary to achieve their goals.”

Irvine, California-based Online Trading Academy is a global network of financial education centers focused on teaching students the art of trading since June of 1997. With over 18,000 graduates, Online Trading Academy offers professional instruction from experienced trading professionals, as well as a wide array of beneficial home study materials to supplement classroom study. Online Trading Academy offers instruction in physical classrooms and online in multiple asset classes including Stocks, Options, Forex and Futures. Online Trading Academy has financial education centers throughout the world in Irvine, Los Angeles, San Jose, Concord, Seattle, Vancouver, Phoenix, Denver, Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Ft. Lauderdale, Tampa, Orlando, Atlanta, Charlotte, Baltimore, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Secaucus, New York City, Stamford, Toronto, Boston, London, Dubai, Singapore and plans to opens financial education centers in Mumbai and Jakarta in 2010. For more information, visit www.tradingacademy.com.