November 2008 TRADE NEWS
News Releases & Products


FXCM and DailyFX Offer New Forex Trading Signals
Quote.com, RagingBull.com Offer Free Real-Time Quote Data Via BATS Trading
GAIN Capital Provides Liquidity To FlexFX Platform
CQG Offers Economic Release Bullets, Interfax News
Portfolio Calculator Meets New Standards
UOY And DOY Move To NYSE Arca
NASDAQ OMX PHLX Launches Complex Order System For Options
Telvent Acquires DTN
 

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TRADE NEWS & PRODUCTS



FXCM and DailyFX Offer New Forex Trading Signals

   FXCM and DailyFX.com has released a new version of their Forex Trading Signals product to FXCM live clients through the DailyFX+ website. Currency trading signals on DailyFX+ have been expanded to offer interactive trading alerts that update automatically in real-time, 24 hours a day. FXCM Trading Signals track six strategies on 14 currency pairs and have a customizable alerts section that updates live.

www.fxcm.com
www.dailyfx.com

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Quote.com, RagingBull.com Offer Free Real-Time Quote Data Via BATS Trading

   eSignal announced that its portal sites Quote.com and RagingBull.com now offer NYSE EURONEXT and NASDAQ-listed stocks, real-time last sale and quote market data from BATS Trading. The BATS datafeed is provided free.

www.eSignal.com
www.batstrading.com
www.interactivedata.com

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GAIN Capital Provides Liquidity To FlexFX Platform

   GAIN Capital Group is now a liquidity provider to FlexTrade Systems' FlexFX platform, which provides algorithmic trading capabilities, and has also connected to Traiana's Harmony prime brokerage network, the company said. This is aimed at institutional clients such as hedge funds and investment managers and will build on the relationship established in 2006 with FlexTrade and Traiana.

www.gaincapital.com
www.flextrade.com
www.traiana.com

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CQG Offers Economic Release Bullets, Interfax News

   CQG said that it was now offering Need to Know News Economic Release Bullets, which is a news datafeed detailing US economic releases. The data can be visualized in real-time through any of CQG's quote displays on the CQG data line. CQG includes historical economic report data for chart analysis and backtesting.

In other news, Interfax Information Services, a source of real-time business news from Europe and Asia, will now be available to users of the CQG platform for global, electronically traded futures markets. CQG's customers will have access to industry-specific news services and in-depth research reports from 70 bureaus covering oil and gas, banking and finance, business andinvestment, energy, commodities, metals and mining, pharmaceuticals and health technologies, food and agriculture, and IT and telecom nes in the emerging Eurasian markets.

www.cqg.com
www.needtoknownews.com

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Portfolio Calculator Meets New Standards

   Hamilton Software has released Easy ROR Pro 10, a portfolio performance calculator for investors, CPAs, and money managers. Version 10 meets the more stringent global investment performance standards (GIPS) coming January 1, 2010, providing all GIPS-required methods for calculating time-weighted rate of return and composite portfolio performance, and other GIPS-recommended functions. Portfolio data for any number of clients can be imported, and benchmark data is automatically downloaded. There is a free trial.

www.hamiltonsoftware.com

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UOY And DOY Move To NYSE Arca

   MacroMarkets and the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) announced that MacroMarkets will transfer the listing of MacroShares $100 Oil Up and MacroShares $100 Oil Down to NYSE Arca. UOY and DOY are patented securities designed to transfer assets between the Up and Down trusts as their NYMEX light sweet crude oil benchmark price moves. The move is the result of the proposed acquisition of the AMEX by NYSE Arca and will take place after the close of the acquisition.

www.MacroShares.com

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NASDAQ OMX PHLX Launches Complex Order System For Options

   The NASDAQ OMX PHLX is now operating its Complex Order System, a fully electronic system for options that automates the process for handling and executing two-sided complex orders that are priced as a single order. The system supports various order types including strategies consisting of two options on a single underlying stock, exchange traded fund, currency, or index.

www.nasdaqomx.com

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Telvent Acquires DTN

   Telvent (TLVT) said it had agreed to acquire all of US-based business information services provider DTN Holding Co. The all-cash purchase of DTN is valued at $445 million, financed through fully funded senior indebtedness and the issuance of common equity. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2008, subject to customary regulatory and shareholder approvals.

www.telvent.com
www.dtn.com

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