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July 2002 TRADE NEWS
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TRADE NEWS & PRODUCTS
Swing Trading The QQQ Nasdaq-100 Index with Options
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 MrSwing.com
offers an e-mail service for QQQ swing traders. The new QQQ Swings service
package includes daily reports delivered via e-mail before markets open
with chapters such as "Key technicals" and "Option
strategies." In addition, subscribers receive daily and intraday
e-mail alerts with trading signals.
The MrSwing.com website focuses on providing swing traders with tools
and services to help build trading discipline. MrSwing.com offers subscription-based
services as well as a free newsletter for swing traders. Most services
are available with a free trial period.
www.mrswing.com/QQQ |
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E-Newsletter for Intraday Traders
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Day
Traders Action.com offers a daily e-newsletter that combines market
direction calls with instruction for intraday trading in the S&P 500
market. The Daily Call And Briefing e-newsletter is designed for S&P
500 e-mini traders, but many subscribers also trade the QQQ and OEX. In
addition to the daily call, it provides ongoing trading tutorials, floor
trader buy/sell pivot projections, and trading setups that are designed
to capture eight to 10 handle moves on the S&P 500.
The DayTradersAction.com website focuses on trading psychology in addition
to buy/sell pivots, value area, and specific setups. A free 30-day trial
is available to S&P 500 futures traders. After the trial period, the
annual cost is $175.
www.daytradersaction.com |
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Integrated Data Solution
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FT
Interactive Data announced the launch of a new interface to its data
in its Advent Office's suite of complementary software solutions
for the investment management industry. The interface enables Advent Europe
clients to process a wide range of information automatically from FT Interactive
Data, including regular prices and dividend updates for client portfolios,
as well as indices and foreign exchange information. FT Interactive Data
and Advent Europe have been working together to develop this seamless integration
of Advent Office with FT Interactive Data's desktop portfolio administration
service, FTS.
www.FTInteractiveData.com, www.adventeurope.com, www.Advent.com |
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Unlimited Trading For Monthly Fee
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The
Trading Co-op announced an online commodities, futures, and options
brokerage firm that offers its clients unlimited trading for one monthly
fee plus clearing charges. The company believes that this approach will
help ensure that the clients' best interests will prevail. By charging
a reasonable, monthly fee that allows clients to trade as much or as little
as they choose, The Trading Co-op believes it can lessen traders'
costs and avoid conflicts of interest.
www.TradingCo-op.com |
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Wealth-Lab Developer 2.x WITH NEW TRADING STRATEGIES
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Matheny
Enterprises will begin distributing Wealth-Lab's Wealth-Lab
Developer 2.x (Wld2) product. Wealth-Lab 2.1 is an interactive trading
system development laboratory. Users can develop and backtest stock-trading
systems and explore the systems contributed by other members.
Matheny Enterprises has also begun developing new modules for the software
that will go on sale when the modules are ready for market.
For a limited time, Matheny Enterprises will offer Wealth-Lab Developer
2.1 to new users at a discount of $100.
Matheny Enterprises, www.ment.com |
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Real-Time Stock Scanning and Alert System
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Lazy DayTrader Stock Pick Software is a real-time stock scanning and
alert system. It's designed for the active equities daytrader, producing
trade opportunity alerts and recommendations to go long or short, with
the potential for short-term price movements, during each trading day,
in real time. It continually scans thousands of stocks in different markets
looking for short-term trading opportunities.
The recommendations produced to buy long or short are based on real-time
intraday data, giving the trader the opportunity to make profits during
fast movements in a stock or in the market.
The software is easy to install and use. It carries out analysis using
artificial intelligence methodology. It finds stocks from live datafeeds
to produce its recommendations based on buying conditions, so the daytrader
can quickly analyze and respond to a specific short or long position.
Lazy DayTrader, http://geocities.com/stockusa2002 |
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Wireless Forex Capabilities
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Gain
Capital announced the launch of Gain | wireless, designed to provide
users with free, 24-hour mobile access to real-time foreign exchange (FX)
market data and account information. Gain | wireless is compatible with
more than 80 Internet-enabled devices, including mobile phones, PDAs, RIM
and other wireless handhelds. There are no extra fees to access the service.
Future releases, scheduled for later this year, will include the ability
to set rate alerts, enter stop and limit orders, and receive alerts once
pending orders are executed.
www.gaincapital.com |
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Emerging CTA Index Launched
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The
Emerging CTA Index (ECI) is a broad-based, rule-governed index that
invests directly with 30 to 50 equally weighted (risk-adjusted), independent,
emerging Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) firms. The index provides investors
with a highly diversified solution to accessing both the low correlated
returns of managed futures and the absolute return potential of small CTAs.
Access Asset Management provides investors with transparency
and analysis so that the index can be used as a powerful Cta research and
due diligence tool. The ECI fund was launched on April 1, 2002, with $15
million and has both US onshore and offshore investment vehicles available.
Access Asset Management and Ramsey Quantitative Systems (RQSI) have
a 16-year history of actively investing with emerging CTAs.
Access Asset Management is a Commodity Pool Operator that conducts CTA
research and manages alternative investment portfolios. RQSI develops alternative
investment trading strategies.
www.accessasset.com, www.rqsi.com |
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EnCorr Update Adds Monte Carlo, Cash Flow Analysis
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Ibbotson
Associates released the EnCorr 8.2 version of its asset allocation
software. Additions to EnCorr include a Monte Carlo simulation with cash
flow analysis capability; expanded investment data for modeling hedge funds;
international equity and alternative asset classes; separately managed
account data; and streamlined reporting.
EnCorr is designed to be a flexible tool for plan sponsors, pension
fund management consultants, sophisticated independent advisors, money
managers, and financial product marketers. The software allows a user to
analyze, evaluate and monitor, develop and implement, and test and forecast.
www.ibbotson.com |
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Earnings Conference Calls
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Thomson Financial announced partnerships with CCN and Fair Disclosure
Financial Network (FDFN). Through these partnerships, Thomson Financial's
corporate and institutional clients will be able to access comprehensive
conference call summaries and transcripts of quarterly conference calls
held by publicly traded companies.
To provide this service, Thomson Financial is partnering with CCN, a
provider of reports of corporate conference calls to the investment community,
and FDfn, a company that provides near real-time, full-text transcripts
of earnings conference calls directly to subscribers via the Internet.
CCN produces comprehensive reports of corporate conference calls covering
over 750 public companies. FDfn provides subscribers to AnalystCall with
access to the streaming text of a call as early as 10 minutes into the
live conference call. Users can immediately download this content as a
plain text document. Soon after the conference call has ended, FDfn's
technology creates an interactive transcript that allows subscribers to
search the call transcript, find a section of interest, click on it, and
listen to just that part of the actual audio from the conference call.
www.CCNsource.com, www.fdfn.com, www.thomson.com |
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Trading Course Available From TradingMarkets.com
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TradingMarkets.com
offers a trading course led by instructor Don Miller. The course features
a seven-hour video, a workbook, and a real-world, bar-by-bar online trading
simulator designed to help the student develop professional-level reflexes.
Don Miller is a professional daytrader. After trading various stocks
for years, Miller switched to trading the QQQs exclusively in 2001.
www.TradingMarkets.com
donmillerqqq.com/index.cfm/home/ |
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Website Predicts DJIA Close Before the Open
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DowPredict.com announces a free website that boldly predicts, daily,
the closing price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average before the market
opens. The DJIA prediction can be a guide to investors, traders, business
persons, analysts, economists, investment advisors, and the general public
who take an interest in the stock market.
The prediction is based on proprietary software incorporating artificial
intelligence, neural nets, genetic node evolution, transform analysis,
and fuzzy logic. The complete history of prediction accuracy is shown on
an ongoing basis at the website in numeric and chart form.
DowPrediction.com also offers an advance, daily, e-mail newsletter service
that delivers the prediction immediately after the previous day's
close, 12 hours before it's posted free on the website.
www.dowpredict.com |
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Universal Brokerage Platform
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UNX
has
launched a universal brokerage trading platform. This trading platform
enables institutional investors to capture performance opportunities by
matching their trading strategies with their investment strategies. Institutions
can apply "best-of-breed" trading functionalities across
liquidity pools in order to seek best execution and reduce transaction
costs.
The universal brokerage combines electronic communication networks (ECNs),
alternative trading systems (ATSS), agency brokerages, and direct-access
trading platforms. A universal brokerage enables institutional investors
to seek best execution by harnessing the power of trading tools and consolidating
their access to the fragmented liquidity of today's volatile markets.
www.unx.com |
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Nest Egg 3.0 Helps Maximize Retirement
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Hamilton
Software has released Nest Egg 3.0 to help those thinking about retirement
to maximize the value of their savings both before and after they retire.
Nest Egg is a retirement planner that provides an exploratory view of the
user's total financial lifespan, allowing anyone -- college
grad to retiree -- to instantly examine the effects of key decisions
and quickly compare a wide variety of retirement possibilities. The software
also details how to best withdraw savings. Nest Egg automatically optimizes
the distribution of funds, calculating income tax, utilizing early SEPP
withdrawals, taking advantage of exemptions, tracking Roth earnings, and
navigating age restrictions. A demo can be downloaded free.
www.hamiltonsoftware.com |
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Website Provides Computerized Pattern
Recognition And Technical Analysis
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A Louisville, KY?based investment website called Stockpond offers
a combination of computerized technical analysis and pattern recognition.
Knowledge of technical analysis is not required to use the website, since
proprietary software does the analysis and provides reports that highlight
stocks exhibiting timely entry and exit points.
Stockpond currently performs ongoing analysis and reporting for more
than 7,500 stocks, 252 industries, 95 indices, and 45 industry sectors.
Fifty days of historical price, volume, and notable event information are
accessible with a single click. A 30-day free trial is available. Membership
is $19.95/month, $199/year.
www.stockpond.com |
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Assessing Terrorism Impact on portfolios
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The
Investor
Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) and the Conflict Securities Advisory
Group (CSAG) has jointly developed the Global Security Risk Monitor (GSRM),
which will allow institutional investors, fund managers, investment bankers,
multinational corporations, and insurance companies to assess the potential
implications of terrorism and proliferation on their investments or operations.
This risk management tool identifies publicly held corporations with
operations in, or links to, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and
Syria, and assesses reputational and/or financial risk based on the type
and scope of involvement of the companies profiled.
Risk assessments are based on the scope and type of the company's
links to each country. Risk may be compounded by the company's presence
in more than one country or security-sensitive sector.
www.irrc.org |
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Island Launches New Tools And Applications For Active Traders
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Island
has announced several new applications, all based off of Island's
data. Two of the new tools are Order View and Order Book Chart. The Order
View tool charts buying and selling pressure for a stock trading on Island,
and the Order Book Chart tool is a visual representation of the information
displayed on the Island BookViewer.
All applications are free of charge and provide real-time information
about trading activity on Island for the entire trading day (7:00 am to
8 pm EDT).
http://tools.island.com |
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