ONLINE BROKERAGE KIT
NetBroker has released Broker OnLine, an electronic product kit containing tools for constructing full-featured electronic brokerage services. With the kit, brokerage firms can create and market their own electronic brokerage services and thereby expand their customer base, extend product lines and better service their customers.
The toolkit contains modules for online trading, account inquiry and servicing, market information and investment tools that can be custom configured to meet the specific needs of an individual firm's sales goals.
NetBroker, Inc.,
135 Beaver St., Waltham, MA 02154.
Phone: 617 894-0700. Fax: 617 894-9226.
TAX PLANNING FOR MUTUAL FUNDS
The No-Load Fund Shareholders Association (NFSA) has released TaxTracker ($48) mutual fund portfolio management software for consumers. The Windows-based program helps individual investors to monitor important aspects of their mutual fund portfolios, such as tax liabilities, historical return and ongoing asset allocation. TaxTracker helps investors monitor their mutual funds to maximize after-tax returns.
TaxTracker can print sell orders that identify the most advantageous group of shares to sell when shares have been purchased at different times. It can also print detailed reports on capital gains and losses and rates of return. Internet users can view sample strategies for tax savings provided by NFSA at http://www.manhattanlink.com.
No-Load Fund Shareholders Association, Inc. (NFSA),
3432 Denmark Ave., PO Box 211, St. Paul, MN 55123.
Phone: 612 456-0106, 800 Y-NO-LOAD.
CANADIAN VERSION OF INVESTMENT TRAINING SOFTWARE RELEASED
Competence Software, a provider of interactive, multimedia and computer-based training products, has modified and released its Investment Basics and Financial Competence training software for the Canadian market. The software for the PC teaches the user how to read, set up and understand a company's financial statements. It also teaches the basics of investing and financial planning. The products use sound, graphics, animation and drilling practice for instruction. A Macintosh version is in development.
Competence Software, Inc.,
Jct. Routes 28 & 107, PO Box 66, Pittsfield, NH 03263.
Phone: 603 435-5098. Fax: 603 435-7869.
E-mail: vpmdcompsw@aol.com.
CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION ON FUTURES
The Chicago Board of Trade's August course will be on the basics of agriculturals. The three-day minicourse will introduce the structure and principles of futures and options on the international cash grain markets. It will also cover applying futures and options tools to risk management in the cash grain markets.
The class will be held August 7-9 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and costs $550 per person.
Mary Unger, Chicago Board of Trade,
CBOT Market & Product Development Dept.,
141 W. Jackson, Suite 2210, Chicago, IL 60604.
Phone: 312 435-7207.
NEW FUTURES CHART SERVICE
Knight-Ridder Financial has released a new weekly chart book, called CRB Futures Perspective. The new publication will replace the two chart services that Knight-Ridder currently publishes, KR-CRB Futures Chart Service and Commodity Perspective. Each issue of the CRB Futures Perspective will include more than 100 pages of material covering 87 domestic and international markets.
The new publication will continue to offer the features that were popular in the previous publications, including CRB Electronic Futures Trend Analyzer, the CFTC Commitments of Traders Report, the Stock Market Momentum Indicator, as well as cash charts and market analysis.
Agricultural and financial editions will be available separately or together as a complete edition.
Knight-Ridder Financial,
30 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606.
Phone: 312 559-3331.
DATA AND SHAREWARE ON CD
The Penta Group has released the Spring/Summer 1996 edition of its CD-ROM, Instant Investor. The new release offers financial software, historical stock, commodity and index data, economic statistics and special features.
Data in a variety of formats is available on the CD-ROM for many US stocks, futures and currencies, as well as German stocks. Shareware software on the CD includes programs for charting, technical analysis, portfolio management, options analysis, interest rate calculators, financial and business applications and data utilities. Special features on the CD include stock symbol lists, the CIA World Fact Book and travel advisories. There's also a section on international trade, which covers international business practices and trade leads.
The economic statistics on the CD include GNP, inflation, employment, energy, CPI, PPI and more.
The Penta Group,
2935 NE 163 St., Suite 5A, North Miami Beach, FL 33161.
Phone: 305 948-8226. Fax: 305 947-9008.
E-mail: penta@centrex.com.
Distributed by Traders Press Inc., Greenville, SC.
Phone: 800 927-8222, 864-298-0222.
ASTROPHYSICAL CYCLE
Sponsored by Astro Economics, the ninth annual World Conference of Astro Economics will be held November 2 and 3 in New York City. The conference provides a forum for an exchange of ideas and research on how planetary cycles affect financial markets around the world.
Speakers at this year's conference are well-known traders, fund managers and business writers, including Arch Crawford, author of Crawford Perspectives newsletter; Robert Krausz, author of Fibonacci Trader; Jeanne Long, author of A Trader's Astrological Almanac, The Universal Clock and Basic Astro Tech; Bill Meridian, author of Planetary Stock Trading; and Ray Merriman, author of Merriman on Market Cycles.
Topics to be covered at the conference include commodities and trading techniques, precious metals, the stock market, the outlook for individual stocks and money-making techniques.
Astro Economics,
Grace K. Morris,
1415 W. 22nd St., Tower Floor, Oak Brook, IL 60521.
Phone: 708 636-3858. Fax: 708 425-7380.
NEW -- Stock Data Corp. has begun offering Custom Analysis Software 7.0 in conjunction with its stock market data packages. This technical screening program scans the Stock Data database at a rate of more than 600 data points per second. A command-line interface is provided to allow multiple screens to be run in succession from a batch file. The program can screen up to 10,000 stocks against a dozen technical filters in less than an hour, depending on the time period used.
