November 2002 TRADE NEWS
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Townsend Analytics Offers Risk Analysis Tool To RealTick Subscribers

 
Townsend Analytics Offers Risk Analysis Tool to RealTick subscribers

Townsend Analytics, Ltd., announced that Barra Risk Factor, a risk analysis tool that makes risk easier to calculate, is now available to RealTick subscribers. This marks the first time Barra Risk Factor's dataset and full graphical interface have been integrated in a single decision support and trading application.

Barra Risk Factor gives traders and investors the ability to compare the risk of any given stock with others in the broad market, its sector, or its industry. Users of RealTick can access Barra Risk Factor at www.RealTick.com.

www.taltrade.com

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Acme Trader Introduces Professional Stock Trading CD

Acme Trader Introduces professional Stock Trading CD

Acme Trader has introduced "The Professional Stock Trading CD," the software companion to Professional Stock Trading: System Design And Automation by Aaron N. Behle and Mark R. Conway. The software is a trading platform for the professional trader.

The source code runs on TradeStation and is fully disclosed, including six long/short systems for advanced trading strategies. Charts are annotated with a pattern recognition system, and trade entries, exits, and profit targets are displayed as visual cues in real time. The software can be applied to all time frames and is for both the day trader and position trader.

www.acmetrader.com

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Nirvana Releases VisualTrader

Nirvana Releases VisualTrader

VisualTrader, a new software program for active traders, has been released by Nirvana Systems. Utilizing Microsoft's DirectX technology, VisualTrader enables traders to view the market in a dynamic graphical representation. VisualTrader's 3D display provides a unique view of the market in action, showing current trend, change in trend, breadth of movement and group rotation. Nirvana has patents pending on several aspects of the software.

www.nirvanasystems.com

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Nasdaq LIFFE Publishes Rulebook

Nasdaq LIFFE Publishes Rulebook

Nasdaq Liffe Markets, LLC (NQLX), announced the publication of its rulebook, which contains trading, governance, and other rules approved by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. NQLX becomes the first security futures exchange to unveil its rules, which govern trading, membership, operations, and enforcement on the exchange.

NQLX is a fully electronic, federally regulated exchange formed as a joint venture between The Nasdaq Stock Market and the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange.

www.nqlx.com

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Pring Sponsors Seminar Series For Traders And Investors

Pring Sponsors Seminar Series For Traders And Investors

Pring Research is offering a two- or three-day seminar, "Mastering the Art of Technical Analysis" and an optional one-day MetaStock workshop, specifically for new or intermediate traders and investors.

Day 1 targets the basic building blocks of technical analysis, day 2 covers the intermediate concepts, and day 3 is the optional MetaStock workshop to integrate the principles learned in days 1 and 2 to work more efficiently in MetaStock.

The seminar will be held in Tampa, FL, on November 8-10, 2002. For details, call 800 221-7514 or 941 364-5850, or visit the website.

www.pring.com

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Certification Course For Chartered Market Technician

 
Certification Course For Chartered Market Technican

Golden Gate University (GGU) has announced that its program in technical market analysis (TMA) this fall will offer three courses taught by experts in the field.

The first, "Technical Analysis of Securities," will be taught by Hank Pruden, executive director of the Institute for Technical Market Analysis and director of GGU's TMA graduate certificate program. Students who take this course at GGU will be eligible to take the first level of the three exams required to be certified as a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). The CMT is a professional designation, comparable to the CFP or the CFA.

Golden Gate University leads the nation with the first accredited technical market analysis program.

www.ggu.edu/schools/business/fin_cert.html

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NeuralWorks Releases Integrated Platform

NeuralWorks Releases Integrated Platform

NeuralWare has released NeuralWorks Predict 3.0, an integrated platform for creating and deploying prediction and classification models for business intelligence applications.

Predict combines neural network technology with genetic algorithms, statistics, and fuzzy logic to automatically find optimal or near-optimal solutions for a range of problems. Predict incorporates modeling and analysis experience from working with customers faced with a variety of data mining, analysis, and interpretation problems. Version 3.0 represents an upgrade of its intuitive user interface. A downloadable evaluation version is available.

www.neuralware.com

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Real-Time Platform Offers Technical Analysis Software

Real-Time Platform Offers Technical Analysis Software

AmiBroker 4.10 is a real-time analysis platform for stocks, mutual funds, and futures that delivers advanced charting, high-speed multiple-security backtesting, optimization and scanning, and programmable indicators in a single platform. It features its own programming language (AFL) as well as the ability to run VBScript or JScript and external Dll/Com code.

AmiBroker runs on 32-bit Windows versions and supports an expanding list of data vendors. A permanent license can be purchased for $89 (standard edition) and $199 (real-time edition). Upgrades are free for one year.

Version 4.10 has numerous improvements over previous editions, including: formula-based advanced real-time alerts, extensive support for backtesting stocks and futures, automatic chart interpretation, a new direct link to the FastTrack mutual funds database, and more.

www.amibroker.com

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Options Strategies Online

Options Strategies Online

OptionsXpress has introduced its One-Triggers-Other (OTO) execution feature, which will help remove logistical obstacles to multiple trades that must be made in sequence with each trade contingent on the execution of the last. OTO joins other optionsXpress features that simplify stock and options investing, including its One-Cancels-Other and Contingent Order capabilities.

www.optionsxpress.com

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Track ECN Now Offered Through Lava Trading


 
 
Track ECN Now Offered Through Lava Trading

Track Data Corp. announced that Track ECN is now available as a routing source on the Lava Trading Floor and ColorBook.

Lava Trading develops high-performance software for equity traders and provides market data distribution, trading technology, and electronic communication networks (ECN) and exchange connectivity for Nasdaq market makers, broker-dealers, and large institutional investors.

The Trading Floor system provides traders with consolidated order information in a unified market data montage; order entry across available execution services; design tools for smart placement features; and real-time monitoring and management of orders, positions, and P&L. Track ECN recently became the no. 1 liquidity provider on Nasdaq's SuperSOES.

www.trackdata.com, www.lavatrading.com

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NASDAQ Receives Approval For SuperMontage Trading System

NASDAQ Receives Approval for SuperMontage Trading System

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted unanimously to approve Nasdaq's new SuperMontage trading system, scheduled to begin trading on or before October 11, 2002.

SuperMontage is a fully integrated order display and execution system for the trading of Nasdaq-listed securities capable of handling an expanded universe of orders. It is the culmination of a series of enhancements to Nasdaq's trading systems. SuperMontage was conceived to better manage a series of trends and regulations in the securities industry.

www.nasdaq.com

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AlphaTrade Launches Pink Sheet Level II Quote Service

AlphaTrade Launches Pink Sheet Level II Quote Service

AlphaTrade.com announced that it launched Pink Sheet Level II information for all Pink Sheets listed securities.

AlphaTrade's current suite of comprehensive applications and trade execution systems, known as E-Gate, has been enhanced to include Level II securities listed on the Pink Sheets. Streaming real-time stock quotes, news, intraday and historical charts plus many other professional features are included. A seven-day free trial is available.

In other news, AlphaTrade.com reported that eight more firms integrated E-Gate into their websites.

www.alphatrade.com, www.alphatrade-europe.de

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EGAR Technology Releases Suite Of Integrated Applications

EGAR Technology Releases Suite of Integrated Applications

Egar Technology released EGAR ONE, a suite of integrated real-time applications, data and services for the equity options markets.

EGAR ONE addresses the expanding needs of market makers, hedge funds, and proprietary traders as the equity options markets migrate toward electronic trading. It provides the functionality of a traditional market-making system while supporting the requirements of screen-based trading. EGAR ONE takes a portfolio approach to equity options trading so it is highly scalable, enabling traders to trade options on a larger number of stocks.

www.egartech.com

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Arbitrage Software To Find Possibilities Between Markets


 
 
Arbitrage Software to Find Possibilities Between Markets

R.S. & Associates of The Netherlands announced Java-based McSpread, its new arbitrage software. McSpread will find optimal arbitrage possibilities between selected financial markets, stocks, futures, forex, indices, single stock futures, and more. It can also be used as a risk management tool to hedge investment portfolios with financial hedging instruments. McSpread can read ASCII formats, including Excel CSV spreadsheets and ASCII data from the world major data vendors.

www.2hedge.com

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