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November 2002 TRADE NEWS
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TRADE NEWS & PRODUCTS
Townsend Analytics Offers Risk Analysis Tool To
RealTick Subscribers
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 Townsend
Analytics Offers Risk Analysis Tool to RealTick subscribers
Townsend Analytics, Ltd., announced that Barra Risk Factor, a risk analysis
tool that makes risk easier to calculate, is now available to RealTick
subscribers. This marks the first time Barra Risk Factor's dataset and
full graphical interface have been integrated in a single decision support
and trading application.
Barra Risk Factor gives traders and investors the ability to compare
the risk of any given stock with others in the broad market, its sector,
or its industry. Users of RealTick can access Barra Risk Factor at www.RealTick.com.
www.taltrade.com |
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Acme Trader Introduces Professional Stock Trading CD
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Acme
Trader Introduces professional Stock Trading CD
Acme Trader has introduced "The Professional Stock Trading CD," the
software companion to Professional Stock Trading: System Design And
Automation by Aaron N. Behle and Mark R. Conway. The software is a
trading platform for the professional trader.
The source code runs on TradeStation and is fully disclosed, including
six long/short systems for advanced trading strategies. Charts are annotated
with a pattern recognition system, and trade entries, exits, and profit
targets are displayed as visual cues in real time. The software can be
applied to all time frames and is for both the day trader and position
trader.
www.acmetrader.com |
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Nirvana Releases VisualTrader
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Nirvana
Releases VisualTrader
VisualTrader, a new software program for active traders, has been released
by Nirvana Systems. Utilizing Microsoft's DirectX technology, VisualTrader
enables traders to view the market in a dynamic graphical representation.
VisualTrader's 3D display provides a unique view of the market in action,
showing current trend, change in trend, breadth of movement and group rotation.
Nirvana has patents pending on several aspects of the software.
www.nirvanasystems.com |
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Nasdaq LIFFE Publishes Rulebook
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Nasdaq
LIFFE Publishes Rulebook
Nasdaq Liffe Markets, LLC (NQLX), announced the publication of its rulebook,
which contains trading, governance, and other rules approved by the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission. NQLX becomes the first security futures exchange
to unveil its rules, which govern trading, membership, operations, and
enforcement on the exchange.
NQLX is a fully electronic, federally regulated exchange formed as a
joint venture between The Nasdaq Stock Market and the London International
Financial Futures and Options Exchange.
www.nqlx.com |
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Pring Sponsors Seminar Series For Traders And Investors
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Pring
Sponsors Seminar Series For Traders And Investors
Pring Research is offering a two- or three-day seminar, "Mastering the
Art of Technical Analysis" and an optional one-day MetaStock workshop,
specifically for new or intermediate traders and investors.
Day 1 targets the basic building blocks of technical analysis, day 2
covers the intermediate concepts, and day 3 is the optional MetaStock workshop
to integrate the principles learned in days 1 and 2 to work more efficiently
in MetaStock.
The seminar will be held in Tampa, FL, on November 8-10, 2002. For details,
call 800 221-7514 or 941 364-5850, or visit the website.
www.pring.com |
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Certification Course For Chartered Market Technician
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Certification
Course For Chartered Market Technican
Golden Gate University (GGU) has announced that its program in technical
market analysis (TMA) this fall will offer three courses taught by experts
in the field.
The first, "Technical Analysis of Securities," will be taught by Hank
Pruden, executive director of the Institute for Technical Market Analysis
and director of GGU's TMA graduate certificate program. Students who take
this course at GGU will be eligible to take the first level of the three
exams required to be certified as a Chartered Market Technician (CMT).
The CMT is a professional designation, comparable to the CFP or the CFA.
Golden Gate University leads the nation with the first accredited technical
market analysis program.
www.ggu.edu/schools/business/fin_cert.html |
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NeuralWorks Releases Integrated Platform
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NeuralWorks
Releases Integrated Platform
NeuralWare has released NeuralWorks Predict 3.0, an integrated platform
for creating and deploying prediction and classification models for business
intelligence applications.
Predict combines neural network technology with genetic algorithms,
statistics, and fuzzy logic to automatically find optimal or near-optimal
solutions for a range of problems. Predict incorporates modeling and analysis
experience from working with customers faced with a variety of data mining,
analysis, and interpretation problems. Version 3.0 represents an upgrade
of its intuitive user interface. A downloadable evaluation version is available.
www.neuralware.com |
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Real-Time Platform Offers Technical Analysis Software
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Real-Time
Platform Offers Technical Analysis Software
AmiBroker 4.10 is a real-time analysis platform for stocks, mutual funds,
and futures that delivers advanced charting, high-speed multiple-security
backtesting, optimization and scanning, and programmable indicators in
a single platform. It features its own programming language (AFL) as well
as the ability to run VBScript or JScript and external Dll/Com code.
AmiBroker runs on 32-bit Windows versions and supports an expanding
list of data vendors. A permanent license can be purchased for $89 (standard
edition) and $199 (real-time edition). Upgrades are free for one year.
Version 4.10 has numerous improvements over previous editions, including:
formula-based advanced real-time alerts, extensive support for backtesting
stocks and futures, automatic chart interpretation, a new direct link to
the FastTrack mutual funds database, and more.
www.amibroker.com |
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Options Strategies Online
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Options
Strategies Online
OptionsXpress has introduced its One-Triggers-Other (OTO) execution
feature, which will help remove logistical obstacles to multiple trades
that must be made in sequence with each trade contingent on the execution
of the last. OTO joins other optionsXpress features that simplify stock
and options investing, including its One-Cancels-Other and Contingent Order
capabilities.
www.optionsxpress.com |
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Track ECN Now Offered Through Lava Trading
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Track
ECN Now Offered Through Lava Trading
Track Data Corp. announced that Track ECN is now available as a routing
source on the Lava Trading Floor and ColorBook.
Lava Trading develops high-performance software for equity traders and
provides market data distribution, trading technology, and electronic communication
networks (ECN) and exchange connectivity for Nasdaq market makers, broker-dealers,
and large institutional investors.
The Trading Floor system provides traders with consolidated order information
in a unified market data montage; order entry across available execution
services; design tools for smart placement features; and real-time monitoring
and management of orders, positions, and P&L. Track ECN recently became
the no. 1 liquidity provider on Nasdaq's SuperSOES.
www.trackdata.com, www.lavatrading.com |
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NASDAQ Receives Approval For SuperMontage Trading System
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NASDAQ
Receives Approval for SuperMontage Trading System
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted unanimously to approve
Nasdaq's new SuperMontage trading system, scheduled to begin trading on
or before October 11, 2002.
SuperMontage is a fully integrated order display and execution system
for the trading of Nasdaq-listed securities capable of handling an expanded
universe of orders. It is the culmination of a series of enhancements to
Nasdaq's trading systems. SuperMontage was conceived to better manage a
series of trends and regulations in the securities industry.
www.nasdaq.com |
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AlphaTrade Launches Pink Sheet Level II Quote Service
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AlphaTrade Launches Pink Sheet Level II Quote Service
AlphaTrade.com announced that it launched Pink Sheet Level II information
for all Pink Sheets listed securities.
AlphaTrade's current suite of comprehensive applications and trade execution
systems, known as E-Gate, has been enhanced to include Level II securities
listed on the Pink Sheets. Streaming real-time stock quotes, news, intraday
and historical charts plus many other professional features are included.
A seven-day free trial is available.
In other news, AlphaTrade.com reported that eight more firms integrated
E-Gate into their websites.
www.alphatrade.com, www.alphatrade-europe.de |
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EGAR Technology Releases Suite Of Integrated Applications
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EGAR Technology Releases Suite of Integrated Applications
Egar Technology released EGAR ONE, a suite of integrated real-time applications,
data and services for the equity options markets.
EGAR ONE addresses the expanding needs of market makers, hedge funds,
and proprietary traders as the equity options markets migrate toward electronic
trading. It provides the functionality of a traditional market-making system
while supporting the requirements of screen-based trading. EGAR ONE takes
a portfolio approach to equity options trading so it is highly scalable,
enabling traders to trade options on a larger number of stocks.
www.egartech.com |
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Arbitrage Software To Find Possibilities Between Markets
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Arbitrage
Software to Find Possibilities Between Markets
R.S. & Associates of The Netherlands announced Java-based McSpread,
its new arbitrage software. McSpread will find optimal arbitrage possibilities
between selected financial markets, stocks, futures, forex, indices, single
stock futures, and more. It can also be used as a risk management tool
to hedge investment portfolios with financial hedging instruments. McSpread
can read ASCII formats, including Excel CSV spreadsheets and ASCII data
from the world major data vendors.
www.2hedge.com |
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