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May 2003 TRADE NEWS
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TRADE NEWS & PRODUCTS
MB Trading Offers Options and Futures Trading
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 MB
Trading is now offering options trading as well as futures trading.
One of its affiliates, MB Trading Futures, will make four index futures
available: E-mini Nasdaq 100, E-mini S&P Index, Fortune E-50, and the
Russell 2000 Index. These trades can be executed from the MBT Navigator
platform. This functionality is available both in the stand-alone Navigator
as well as the company's integrated platforms with the industry's
data and analysis companies. Pricing plans are on a per-share or per-ticket
basis, combined with the free Level II quotes and CME Montage.
MB Trading also announced its customers no longer need multiple accounts
at different firms to diversify their portfolios and trade multiple instruments.
Balances, positions, and order activity for each instrument are displayed
on one page.
www.mbtrading.com |
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Las Vegas Money Show: May 13-15
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The
15th annual Las Vegas Money Show will be held on May 13-15 at Bally's
and Paris resorts, focusing on investing online. Sampling of topics include
how to hedge your portfolio, essential options trading and stock selection
strategies, fundamental vs. technical analysis of stocks, everything you
need to know about direct access trading, market timing and sector rotation,
and more.
www.moneyshow.com |
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TriggerNews Provides Low-Cost Real-Time News
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TriggerNews,
an automatic low-cost monthly subscription service, instantly delivers
targeted real-time news to subscribers based on their own user-defined
triggers. Triggers can be company names, stock symbols and/or any keywords
or phrases of the user's choosing. Users can be informed of breaking
news the moment it happens. Providers include but are not limited to the
Associated Press, PR Newswire, BusinessWire, etc., USGS (for earthquake
alerts), Vickers Stock Research, Department of Defense, and more.
www.triggernews.com |
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TradeStation Group Launches TradeStation 7, new website
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TradeStation
Group has launched TradeStation 7. TradeStation Securities will offer
this latest version to its equities and futures brokerage clients, and
TradeStation Technologies will offer it as a real-time research and analysis
subscription service. The platform's new futures order execution
capabilities includes seamless automated order placement and execution
of custom futures trading strategies.
In other news, TradeStation Securities launched www.TradeStation.com.
The new website was created as part of the launch of TradeStation 7. The
site provides information about how the TradeStation 7 electronic trading
platform should appeal to institutional traders and other professionals
who trade for a living, as well as active nonprofessional individual traders.
www.TradeStation.com/TradeStation7 |
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Hartle Prospect Oscillator As Add-on Now Available
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Thom
Hartle, former Editor of Technical Analysis of STOCKS &
COMMODITIES and now contributing editor for Active Trader magazine,
is offering at his website a trial version of his proprietary indicator,
the Hartle Prospect Oscillator (HPO) as an add-on. The HPO is available
for traders using CQG, Fibonacci Trader, MetaStock, and TradeStation. The
trial version does not provide information for the current bars. The licensed
version cost is $299 and comes with two Adobe .pdf manuals.
www.thomhartle.com |
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Peregrine Financial Announces CTA Challenge
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Peregrine
Financial Group (PFG) is sponsoring a contest for emerging Commodity
Trading Advisors (CTAs). The competition, CTA Challenge '03, was
created by the PFG/TSI Alliance as part of their CTA development objective.
For the purposes of this competition, emerging CTAs is defined as those
with less than $1 million under management. The contest runs through autumn.
CTAs will trade their own strategies during that time. The winner will
receive a $1,000,000 allocation from institutional investors selected.
www.pfgbest.com |
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DataView Launches HotScans Analysis
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DataView
has released an intraday scanning tool called HotScans, which provides
active traders with the ability to filter the market for stocks that are
moving. HotScans is a web-based tool that allows a scan of the market throughout
the day in real time to find strong stocks, weak stocks, and heavily traded
stocks. It has a Trading Strategies section that gives predefined scans
designed to make getting started easier. Any scan or strategy can be customized.
The product sells for $74.95 a month; a one-month trial is $24.95. Annual
subscription and multiple user discounts are available.
www.marketgauge.com |
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Prophet Financial Systems Introduces JavaCharts With Fibonacci Studies
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Prophet
Financial Systems has launched Prophet JavaCharts with Fibonacci studies,
its new web-based interactive charts. With just a browser, active traders
and online investors can dynamically apply Fibonacci retracement levels,
arcs, fans, and time zone studies to historical, intraday, and live, streaming
charts. The new Fibonacci tools add advanced analytic capabilities for
traders who use the technical analysis of charts and market data for understanding
and predicting market moves. The new charts are available at the Prophet
technical analysis website.
www.prophet.net |
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Nasdaq LIFFE Offers Trading On Russell ETF Futures
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Nasdaq
LIFFE Markets announced an exchange-sponsored interactive online securities
futures education program. The first course, available immediately and
at no cost, introduces security futures. Topics covered include contract
specifications; trading mechanics; pricing; margins; and hedging. Courses
will be added throughout the year with topics such as trading strategies,
market structure, and tax treatment.
www.nqlx.com |
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REFCO Enhances FX PRIME Brokerage Services
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Refco
Group Ltd. announced it has enhanced its foreign exchange prime-brokerage
product offering with an online trading platform. FX Clear is an advanced
electronic FX prime-brokerage trading platform with Refco's advanced
solutions in clearing and credit support and is a prime-brokerage
gateway that provides institutional and professional foreign exchange
traders with global access to enhanced, interbank trading sources. FX Clear
allows clients to deal directly with a variety of counterparties while
maintaining a single source for clearing.
www.refco.com |
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