TRADE NEWS & Products
August 2011
- ELECTRONIC TRADING PIONEER LAUNCHES OGG TRADING
- AUSSIE TRADERS UPGRADE PLATFORM
- SENTIGO LAUNCHES MARKET FORECASTING APP
- RECOGNIA, DION EXTEND PARTNERSHIP
- CQG, DELTIX TO DELIVER GLOBAL MARKET DATA, TRADE EXECUTION
- ENHANCEMENTS TO ALPARI PLATFORM
- NEW TURTLE TRADERS TEAM ANNOUNCED
- CURRENCY TRADING EXPO IN VEGAS IN SEPTEMBER 2011
ELECTRONIC TRADING PIONEER LAUNCHES OGG TRADING
David Ogg, founder and former Ceo of both Hotspot FX and LavaFX, has launched Ogg Trading, a provider of execution solutions to the global financial services community. Ogg previously managed FX trading rooms at Credit Suisse, Hsbc, Lehman, and Dresdner. Ogg Trading has established a partnership with Pragma Securities, providers of quantitative and algorithmic trading tools.
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www.marketsplus.com.au
www.velocitytrade.com
Australian region brokers MarketsPlus and Velocity Trade have selected their trading platform from PFSoft-ProTrader. The platform is a business solution for brokers, hedge funds, and exchanges where traders get multi-asset automated trading. Australian investors can use one solution for all major markets.
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Sentigo has announced an iPhone/iPad application that helps users monitor and track publicly traded companies and navigate the US marketplace. The app, named Wall St. Scanner, keeps users up to date on their portfolios during trading hours, utilizing push technology to alert them about significant changes in the market. The app also highlights new investment opportunities and provides a forecast for the next day stock price trend. The app’s software scans over seven million web pages daily from over 15,000 different sources to provide up-to-the-minute analysis of media and marketplace sentiment regarding the top 2,000 (by market cap) US-listed stocks, then uses text analysis and proprietary algorithms to analyze and encapsulate online sentiment or mood of publicly traded companies and market data to predict the potential direction of a stock. The app is currently available for free from the iTunes App Store and can be downloaded to iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad; a version for both the Android and the Blackberry is in the final stages of development and will be available soon, as well as an online version.
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www.recognia.com
www.dionglobal.com
Recognia Inc. and Dion Global Solutions announced an expanded relationship that allows Dion to provide Recognia investment research products to all markets within Asia Pacific. Recognia’s investment research products span over 10 years, providing coverage of worldwide equities, futures, forex, currencies and more.
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Cqg, Inc., announced the partnership between its Continuum division and Deltix, Inc., making Cqg’s global market data and trade routing infrastructure available to Deltix clients. Deltix’s TimeBase data warehouse connects to Cqg’s real-time market datafeed. Trading strategies are developed, backtested, and optimized in Deltix’s QuantOffice using Cqg’s historical data. Suitable strategies are deployed in Deltix’s QuantServer, which sends orders to market via Cqg’s Fix Connect Api, which routes orders through Cqg’s gateways.
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Alpari (US), a global provider of online foreign exchange trading services, has announced its pro division. Alpari FXPro offers a trading environment for professional traders and solutions for partners. The trading environment features a combination of competitive pricing and liquidity from multiple tier 1 banks. Alpari provides money managers with the ability to trade multiple accounts on a platform from one account.
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The New Turtle Traders program that invited members of the public to apply to work on a London trading floor is live, with the team chosen, 30 years from when trader Richard Dennis visited a turtle farm in Singapore and announced he would breed an elite set of traders the same way. New York stock market trader Mike Baghdady has launched the New Turtle Traders: a modern take on Dennis’s program. The original 8,000 applicants for the program were whittled down to 20.
BACK TO LISTCURRENCY TRADING EXPO IN VEGAS IN SEPTEMBER 2011
The Fxcm Currency Trading Expo will be held at the Rio in Las Vegas from September 9 to 11. DailyFX analysts and instructors are scheduled to teach workshops, with Fxcm presenting their new trading platforms.
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