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April 2004 TRADE NEWS
News Releases & Products
eSignal Launches Real-Time Market Data
TradeStation To Host Conference And Expo
CBOE Futures Exchange Begins Trading March 26
RushTrade Releases Direct-Access Platform
Pring Research Licenses Recognition Tools
Automation Platform Combines TradeStation With Fix-Protocol
TradingtheMarket.net Holds Online Classes
eSpeed Introduces Forex Marketplace
GAIN Capital Group Launches FOREX.com
LIFFE To List Global Contract
Trading Tool For Electronic Traders, Brokers
Field Financial Website Now More User-Friendly, With More
Trading Data And Products
Interactive Website Is Launched
EasyLanguage Help Available From Specialist
CMC GROUP partners with Canadian Bond Brokerage For FX Trading
MTPredictor Upgrades Program, Redesigns Website
Web-Based Service Offers Automated Trailing-Stop Watch Service
StatSoft And NewAgeSys Announce Offerings For FDA-Regulated
Industries
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TRADE NEWS & PRODUCTS
eSignal Launches Real-Time Market Data
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 eSignal
announced its new QuoTrek wireless quote and market information service
with data from more than 75 global exchanges, charting, and news for mobile
devices such as BlackBerry, Palm, and Pocket PC.
QuoTrek allows users to leave their computers at home or the office
and access their portfolios on their handhelds. The original QuoTrek was
a handheld, wireless device delivering real-time market data, but the convergence
of cell phone/PDA technologies and the increased bandwidth available has
allowed eSignal to introduce the new QuoTrek, which is available for $49.95
a month for new clients and $25 a month for existing eSignal, eSignal Pro,
and MarketCenter customers.
www.quotrek.com
www.esignal.com |
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TradeStation To Host Conference And Expo
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TradeStationWorld Conference and Expo, previously known as OmegaWorld, will be held on October 21-24, 2004, at Venetian Hotel Resort Casino in Las Vegas. The
conference focuses on the newest technologies in the design, testing, optimization,
and automation of trading strategies, and will feature keynote presentations
by Linda Bradford Raschke, Nelson Freeburg, Jack Schwager, and David Stendahl.
In other news, TradeStation Securities announced it had purchased a
seat on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). Its membership will
allow TradeStation to directly trade options on the exchange. CBOE is one
of six major options exchanges in the US.
TradeStationWorld.com/conference/default.shtm
www.TradeStation.com |
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CBOE Futures Exchange Begins Trading March 26
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Pending
final regulatory approval, the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) will
begin trading on March 26, 2004, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE)
announced. The first product to be traded on CFE will be futures on the
CBOE Volatility Index (VIX).
The CFE, which is a subsidiary of the CBOE, will operate as an electronic
exchange using CBOEdirect as the trading platform. CFE's market structure
will be an open access model. The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) will
clear all CFE trades.
www.cboe.com |
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RushTrade Releases Direct-Access Platform
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Rushmore
Financial Group has released RushTrade Direct Plus, a software-based,
Level I direct-access trading platform. RushTrade Direct Plus offers real-time
streaming quotes with a $9.95 flat rate commission on all orders up to
5,000 shares with all order routing and ECN fees included. It contains
many features of RushTrade Direct Pro, such as real-time quotes, advanced
charting, streaming ticker, news, and real-time P&L all displayed on
a customizable, user-friendly, software interface.
www.RushTrade.com |
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Pring Research Licenses Recognition Tools
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Pring
Research has licensed the Recognia suite of technical event identification
and chart pattern recognition tools, Recognia, an automated technical analysis
tools provider, announced. Recognia's analytical tools provide the ability
to research stocks using recent technical events. Pring Research's subscription
service allows investors to access the combination of Recognia's technical
analysis tools and Pring Research's commentaries.
www.pring.com
www.Recognia.com |
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Automation Platform Combines TradeStation With Fix-Protocol
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BlackBox is a trade-automation framework that integrates TradeStation
with Fix-protocol. TradeStation's order mechanism is bypassed and replaced
with a proprietary Fix interface. The result is an automation platform
that combines the analytical capabilities of TradeStation with the speed
and flexibility of Fix order processing.
The platform accepts user strategies and trades through any Fix-compliant
brokerage/firm/entity and works with TradeStation 2000i or TradeStation
7 on stocks, futures, or exchange traded funds (ETFs).
Of two editions available, the standard "Trader" and the enhanced "Manager,"
both can trade in either the same or different accounts. All strategy time
frames are supported, including daily and overnight.
www.cybertradesystems.com
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TradingtheMarket.net Holds Oline Classes
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TradingtheMarket.net
subscribers
can sit in monthly live audio/video classes and/or weekly chatroom classes.
Not only that, subscribers get the newsletter every day before the market
opens, covering daily picks, market analysis, news plays, and charts. There
is also a free weekly newsletter for nonmembers. Charting software of choice
is TCNet. Potential subscribers purchasing TCNet through the website get
a 2-for-1 deal. Service is free.
www.TradingtheMarket.net |
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eSpeed Introduces Forex Marketplace
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eSpeed,
a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, has launched an electronic foreign exchange
marketplace. By leveraging a model that allows Cantor Fitzgerald to serve
as central counterparty and continuous linked settlement (CLS) to eliminate
intraday settlement risk, this platform, which is completely anonymous,
was created to provide buy-side institutions with access to wholesale market
prices and sell-side institutions with access to untapped liquidity.
www.eSpeed.com |
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GAIN Capital Group Launches Forex.com
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Gain
Capital Group has launched Forex.com, an educational and trading portal
for retail investors. The site seeks to support the growing number of new
entrants to the foreign exchange market, including self-directed traders
from other financial markets in need of increased education and support
services.
Forex.com's goal is to provide a comprehensive resource for individuals
who are comfortable making their own investment decisions but lack experience
trading foreign currencies.
www.forex.com |
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LIFFE To List Global Contract
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To
meet the demand of its customers worldwide to trade Euribor and eurodollar
contracts side by side, the London International Financial Futures and
Options Exchange (LIFFE) announced it would offer three-month eurodollar
futures and options contracts as of March 18, 2004. LIFFE Connect will
be the electronic platform. LIFFE recognizes that US customers may wish
to trade eurodollar contracts on a wholly electronic US exchange, using
LIFFE Connect, gaining benefits that include clearing in the US.
www.LIFFE.com |
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Trading Tool For Electronic Traders, Brokers
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Malato
Harnett has released the first version of MarketDelta, a trading
tool geared for the serious trader and broker. MarketDelta helps the trader
sense market action in a way previously available only in the trading pit.
This electronic trading tool combines price and volume to form a unique
indicator and a suite of tools. MarketDelta gives all available market
information in a logical methodology that will help individuals make more
informed decisions. It displays the feel and memory of the market through
analyzing price, buyer, seller, trade and volume, all in real time. A monthly
subscription will be $70.
www.marketdelta.com |
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Field Financial Website Now More User-Friendly, With More Trading Data
And Products
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Field
Financial Group said that its new website is now more user-friendly
and filled with more trading information and products. The latest additions
to FFG's software product line are three new daytrade position size calculators
(emini S&P 500, emini Nasdaq, and mini $5 Dow futures). Each product
calculates the position size (number of contracts) based on the theoretical
per-contract risk (defined by theoretical entry and stop price) that would
produce a dollar loss dictated by the account size and the percentage of
account to risk.
www.fieldfinancial.com |
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Interactive Website Is Launched
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Technician
Dan Zanger of ChartPattern.com has launched an interactive website
where the viewer gets a clear and concise understanding of how technical
analysis works with explosive stocks and set-up strategies. Using detailed
animations, the homepage presents five of Zanger's stock ideas that have
doubled and even tripled in short time frames. The website explains the
dynamics through which stocks unfold and exhibit "specific" behaviors when
setting up for large gains.
www.ChartPattern.com |
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EasyLanguage Help Available From Specialist
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Benjamin
Blanco has announced that he is offering private consultation for EasyLanguage
users, assisting with the creation and/or modification of the analysis
techniques within the scope of EasyLanguage.
www.BenjaminBlanco.com |
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CMC Group Partners With Canadian Bond Brokerage For FX Trading
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Foreign
exchange, index, and equity derivatives provider CMC Group said
it had partnered with Shorcan Index, Canada's largest regulated interdealer
bond brokerage. With Shorcan, a Toronto-based brokerage, Canadian investors
will be able to access more than 300 forex instruments via CMC's Marketmaker
trading platform. Canadian investors will be able to access Marketmaker's
integrated real-time market news and enhanced charting and analytics package.
Clients can also make use of the global market research, commentary, insight,
and analysis.
www.shorcanindex.com |
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MTPredictor Upgrades Program, Redesigns Website
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MTPredictor
has
released a major upgrade to its End-of-Day (EOD) trading program and redesigned
its website. Eod 4.0 takes the trader through the trading process by identifying
setups, evaluating risk/reward, determining trade size, and managing the
exit stop strategy. Enhancements include expanded trading opportunities
using the Trade Scanner, a new historical search module to check history,
an MTPredictor direct datafeed for ease of use and improved studies, graphics
and software operation.
www.mtpredictor.com |
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Web-Based Service Offers Automated Trailing-Stop Watch Service
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Wireless
Marvels announced its web-based service with a range of features and
functions including streaming real-time quotes, the service's unique capability
being an automated trailing-stop watch service. The service is known as
SoftStop since these stops trigger email and wireless alerts to be sent
to the subscribers, rather than immediately executing a trade.
www.wirelessmarvels.com/vipintro.htm |
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StatSoft and NewAgeSys Announce Offerings For FDA-Regulated Industries
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StatSoft
and NewAgeSys announced a joint effort to provide services to validate
Statistica-based applications for clients in the Food & Drug Administration
(FDA)-regulated industries. This agreement is part of StatSoft's ongoing
commitment to its clients in the pharmaceutical, medical device, biotechnology,
food, and cosmetics industries. StatSoft provides project management and
system design, statistical consulting, installation, and configuration
services, while NewAgeSys is responsible for the computer systems validation
planning, Csv execution and validation documentation.
www.statsoft.com |
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