February 2005 TRADE NEWS
News Releases & Products

Trade Center Launches Platform For Futures And ForeX Systems
eSignal Links Decision Support Application To REDIPlus Platform
FinanceVisor Website Helps Online Investors Identify & Analyze ...
StocksDynamics Releases LIKELY, Forecasting For Professionals
Quote.com Subscribers Get Dow Jones News With Real-Time Content
Rand Financial Gets Electronic Access To Tokyo Exchange, Becomes ...
Fundwatch 5.0 Squeezes Profits From Common Investments
Rina Releases New Version Of PortfolioStream
Bloomberg Chosen As Trading Platform For Singapore Bond
New Home-Study Course Is Launched
Trading Site Features Interviews, Trading Lessons, Message Boards
DealBook FX 2 Features Multiple Currencies, Features Commentary
NumaSoft updates STOPS
Adaptrade Software Develops Market System Analyzer
Two-Day Steve Nison Seminar In Chicago
Legend Launches Risk-Controlled Investing Newsletter
Dow Jones' New Indexes Roll Out Index Benchmarks
Direct-Access Bond Trading on NYSE, BondDesk, Timber Hill
FuturePath Releases Photon Spreader
CandlePower 6 Now Includes Best Performance Scanning
CMS WebView Provides Tick Data To SunGard
Now for Investors: PatternPower
 
 

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Trade Center Launches Platform For Futures And ForeX Systems

Trade Center Launches Platform For Futures And ForeX Systems

Trade Center has launched System Center, a web-based platform that allows users to analyze trading systems in many ways. Users can now compare systems side by side in a graphic-based format at no charge. Investors use tabs to compare, find, research, and get purchase information on trading systems without having to jump from site to site. Investors can sort and compare systems in the database, or narrow their focus.

www.tradecenterinc.com/gosystems.htm

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eSignal Links Decision Support Application To REDIPlus Platform

eSignal Links Decision Support Application To REDIPlus Platform

eSignal said that its decision support application now links to Spear, Leeds & Kellogg's (SLK) RediPlus trading platform and execution systems. RediPlus is Slk's electronic trading platform offering destination-neutral access to all major pools of liquidity for US equities, options, electronic futures, and European equities and electronic futures.

www.esignal.com, www.interactivedatacorp.com

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FinanceVisor Website Helps Online Investors Identify & Analyze Real-time Trading Opportunities

FinanceVisor Website Helps Online Investors Identify & Analyze Real-time Trading Opportunities

Ipiya has launched its FinanceVisor financial advisory website with a variety of analytical tools for investors to identify, analyze, discuss, and manage stocks. FinanceVisor's real-time stock screener helps investors identify trading opportunities throughout the trading day.

www.financevisor.com, www.ipiya.com

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StocksDynamics Releases LIKELY, Forecasting For Professionals

StocksDynamics Releases LIKELY, Forecasting For Professionals

StocksDynamics has released Likely, a new quantitative methodology for calculating future trend probabilities for stocks and indexes in the world's main financial markets. Likely is a short-term analysis and forecasting tool produced for professional traders. Likely is a window-based suite made up of eight applications and was designed, implemented, and tested on the main stock markets worldwide. Likely handles up to 5,000 securities and 300 price parameters in MetaStock or Ascii format.

www.stocksdynamics.com

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Quote.com Subscribers Get Dow Jones News With Real-Time Content

Quote.com Subscribers Get Dow Jones News With Real-Time Content

Lycos said that Dow Jones & Co. is the new primary news provider to Quote.com, Qcharts, and LiveCharts products. Subscribers to these products will receive Dow Jones Equities News for investors. This Dow Jones solution offers investors real-time news and information from the Dow Jones award-winning editorial team, and provides daily updates on corporate announcements and events, fund activity, market commentary, and more.

www.lycos.com, www.dowjones.com

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Rand Financial Gets Electronic Access To Tokyo Exchange, Becomes Chicago Exchange Clearing Member

Rand Financial Gets Electronic Access To Tokyo Exchange, Becomes Chicago Exchange Clearing Member

Rand Financial Services customers can now electronically access Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) products. Tocom offers listings on precious metals, crude oil products and rubber. RandConnect directly accesses Tocom, providing speed and reliability in order routing as well as round-the-clock customer support. In other news, Rand has been approved as a clearing member of the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE). The Ccfe launched trading of standardized and cleared futures contracts on sulfur dioxide emission allowances on December 10, 2004.

www.RandFinancial.com

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Fundwatch 5.0 Squeezes Profits From Common Investments

Fundwatch 5.0 Squeezes Profits From Common Investments

Hamilton Software has released Fundwatch 5.0, the latest version of its charting and analysis software for mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFS), and indexes. The update automatically downloads and graphs volume data along with prices. Its improved graph allows the user to resize, switch between linear/log scale, or zoom/unzoom while superimposing performance plots and technical indicators for various securities. New features include moving average convergence/divergence and speed resistance lines. Cost is $39.95 (upgrade: $19.95).

www.hamiltonsoftware.com

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Rina Releases New Version Of PortfolioStream

Rina Releases New Version Of PortfolioStream

Rina Systems has released PortfolioStream 5 software. The updated software offers new graphs, new saves, control of assumptions on fixed capital, the ability to assign sector for each system/market in the portfolio, application of constraints to a portfolio, new file input and output formats, implementation of hypothetical fees, the ability to collect trade-only data, and much more.

www.rinafinancial.com/PortfolioStream5.asp

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Bloomberg Chosen As Trading Platform For Singapore Bond

Bloomberg Chosen As Trading Platform For Singapore Bond

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has chosen Bloomberg to provide the interdealer trading platform for the Singapore government bond. All Singapore primary bond dealers will use the Bloomberg platform to transact bonds electronically beginning in 2005. All users of the Bloomberg terminal, both in Singapore and internationally, will be able to see complete trading information for this market.

www.bloomberg.com

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New Home-Study Course Is Launched

New Home-Study Course Is Launched

Long-time trading coach Van Tharp has introduced a new line of home-study courses. According to Tharp, the Financial Freedom Through Sound Investing & Trading course is for beginning to moderately experienced traders to rapidly excel at the 12-key stage of developing systems. For a short time, the Van Tharp Institute is introducing these courses at reduced rates to expose clients to this educational format. A videotape introduction to the course is available.

www.iitm.com/seminars/on-line-dec-2004.htm

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Trading Site Features Interviews, Trading Lessons, Message Boards

Trading Site Features Interviews, Trading Lessons, Message Boards

RealWorldTrading.com features weekly trading lessons, daily market news/commentary, professional trader/hedge fund manager interviews, and active message boards. The website also features Trade Finder, which allows investors to search for stocks using their own criteria, or preset scans. The site features resident traders Dave Goodboy (index trading), Brandon Fredrickson (daytrading), Kathy Lien (foreign exchange), Charles Sachs (options), and Cedric Johnson (bonds).

www.RealWorldTrading.com

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DealBook FX 2 Features Multiple Currencies, Features Commentary

DealBook FX 2 Features Multiple Currencies, Features Commentary

Global Forex Trading is offering non-US dollar accounts by adding two additional base currencies within its currency trading software, DealBook FX 2. Gft's customers and referring parties now have the ability to open accounts denominated in euro and yen. The British pound, the Australian dollar, and the Swiss franc will be available in the first fiscal quarter of 2005. Gft offers individual and institutional foreign exchange traders live, tradable prices for more than 60 currency pairs via its 24-hour dealing desk and software.

Global Forex Trading will offer Pro Commentary via DealBook FX 2. Pro Commentary is an educational tool that helps traders observe bullish or bearish relationships and trends for currency pairs.

www.gftforex.com

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NumaSoft updates STOPS

NumaSoft updates STOPS

NumaSoft has released Stops (Stop Tracking for Open  Position Securities) version 3.0, money management software for active stocks and  futures traders. This upgrade includes a more robust user interface and a host of new features,  including both stocks and futures support, paper trading mode, Monte Carlo  simulation, and more. Stops provides real-time risk control, money management, system performance analysis, and trade tracking. The $95 price includes unlimited lifetime technical support and risk-free 30-day trial.

www.numasoft.com

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Adaptrade Software Develops Market System Analyzer

Adaptrade Software Develops Market System Analyzer

Adaptrade Software has developed Market System Analyzer (MSA) money management software application for futures and stock traders. The program is designed to improve trading results for existing trading systems and methods using a combination of statistical analysis techniques and money management methods. Analysis methods include position sizing optimization, Monte Carlo analysis, dependency analysis, and statistical significance testing. All available analyses can be combined. The software works with any trading system or method and requires only a list of profits and losses as input.

www.Adaptrade.com

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Two-Day Steve Nison Seminar In Chicago

Two-Day Steve Nison Seminar In Chicago

Candlestick expert Steve Nison will be presenting a two-day seminar on March 19 and 20, 2005, in Chicago. He will present the same techniques he teaches to institutional traders. You'll learn how to seize trading opportunities, avoid losing trades, and use techniques that Nison reveals only in his live seminars. Class size is limited.

www.candlecharts.com/version2/mar05seminar.html

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Legend Launches Risk-Controlled Investing Newsletter

Legend Launches Risk-Controlled Investing Newsletter

A monthly publication written for financial advisors, Risk-Controlled Investing, educates its readers on how to develop portfolios with a goal of earning long-term equity-like returns but with substantially less risk. Risk-Controlled Investing is produced jointly with Charter Financial Publishing Network and Wealth Advisor Publishing.

www.legend-financial.com

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Dow Jones' New Indexes Roll Out Index Benchmarks

Dow Jones' New Indexes Roll Out Index Benchmarks

Dow Jones Indexes announced the early 2005 rollout of the Dow Jones Wilshire US Style index benchmarks. The new index series will cover five investment styles -- large-capitalization growth, large-cap value, small-cap growth, small-cap value and micro-caps -- reflecting the makeup of the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 index. The style indexes are part of the Wilshire index family that includes a set of US indexes and is planned to include a global composite. The Dow Jones Wilshire indexes provide breadth and global coverage with an objective and transparent set of measures.

www.djindexes.com, www.wilshire.com

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Direct-Access Bond Trading on NYSE, BondDesk, Timber Hill

Direct-Access Bond Trading on NYSE, BondDesk, Timber Hill

Interactive Brokers now offers direct-access and immediate execution for corporate bond trading on the Nyse, the BondDesk Ecn, and IB's market-making affiliate, Timber Hill. IB customers will be able to enter bond orders on the IB platform just as they do for equities, derivatives, or currencies. IB SmartRouting will seek the best price available among the three debt-trading venues. A fee of $1 per $1,000 of face value up tp $10,000 then drops to $0.25 per $1,000 of face value.

www.interactivebrokers.com

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FuturePath Releases Photon Spreader

FuturePath Releases Photon Spreader

PhotonTrader, the electronic trading division of FuturePath Trading, is now introducing the PhotonSpreader. PhotonSpreader offers traders the ability to view and trade theoretical, calendar, and fungible spreads. Place a spread order and the PhotonSpreader automatically modifies individual leg orders until your spread price is attained. Create your own tick size and then trade your spread as if it is an exchange-listed contract. The PhotonSpreader executes in a fraction of a second while handling partial fills. It can place, cancel, and modify spread orders on the depth of market.

www.photontrader.com

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CandlePower 6 Now Includes Best Performance Scanning

CandlePower 6 Now Includes Best Performance Scanning

North Systems has released CandlePower 6 Pro, which now includes a best performance scan that provides the answer to what works best and by how much.

For each security scanned, the software shows which indicator has yielded the highest profit in the past, and its current signal, if any. The scan includes 13 popular technical indicators and 106 candle patterns. Multiple databases can be tested over selectable time periods and end dates using three trading strategies, which can be tested simultaneously to provide the best indicator for the best strategy. Results are summarized in reports.

www.ChartAndScan.com

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CMS WebView Provides Tick Data To SunGard

CMS WebView Provides Tick Data To SunGard

Cms WebView has signed a data distribution agreement with SunGard Data Management Solutions. Cms will provide tick datafeed from the London Metal Exchange (LME), International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE), New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), Commodity Exchange (COMEX) and New York Board of Trade (NYBOT).

www.cms.co.uk
www.data.sungard.com

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Now for Investors: PatternPower

Now for Investors: PatternPower

PatternPower.com is a web-based investment and trading research engine offering analysis of 4,250 US equities. Its pattern recognition engine, developed by John Bollinger, categorizes stock into a series of patterns that can be thought of as Ms and Ws, or uptrends, wedges, head and shoulders, and so forth. PatternPower's analysis and strategies enable investors to anticipate reversals and participate in trends while the proprietary stop-level calculations help preserve capital. The service is designed for professional/sophisticated investors.

www.PatternPower.com

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