Web site offers free interactive charting
NEW -- Using its new charting technology, Prophet Information Services has introduced interactive charting on its Web site. ProphetCharts is a Java-based charting system giving users access to stock, index, fund and futures charts at no charge. Users can draw trendlines, zoom in and out, or compare stocks.
Charting features at the Web site include a custom symbol menu, a choice of technical analysis indicators, a detachable chart window, and an easy chart comparison function.
In other news, a new technology in its ProphetDirect data service allows users of popular charting software, such as SuperCharts, MetaStock, TradeStation, Window on WallStreet and Wall Street Analyst, to retrieve data from Prophet Information Services directly.
Prophet Information Services offers US stock data back to 1968, mutual fund data back to 1988, index data back to 1910 and futures data back to 1959. Prices begin at $14.95 per month.
UPGRADE -- Fibonacci Trader Corporation is set to release version 3.0 of its Fibonacci Trader multiple time frame program, now in 32-bit and with major improvements.
Enhancements include backtesting facilities, which are fully explained in the new manual; compatibility with additional data vendors (including DTN Real-time Financial and S&P ComStock); compatibility with Internet data suppliers (PC Quote, S&P ComStock, BMI, Signal, Reuters Select Data Feed Plus); and compatibility with any data provider that uses a Townsend Analytics server. (The Townsend server collects intraday data, so any ticks you may have lost can be updated.)
As for other Fibonacci Trader program improvements, you can now create divisions to separate your portfolios for stocks or commodities, and the line tools can now be edited, changed color, moved or resized.
The update costs $50 ($75 overseas) for current users and includes a thorough user manual.
NEW -- Listen Only Squawk Box has released version 3.0 of its real-time live Internet squawk box. Improvements to release 3.0 include live messaging to the trading floor, improved performance, and a new audio channel to the Dow Jones Futures contract, which is in addition to the S&P 500 and T-bond markets previously offered. Listen Only Squawk Box provides real-time voice and audio from the exchange floors, covering play-by-play action as it develops in the S&P 500, bond, DJIA and equity markets.
Telerate Seminars, a division of Bridge-Telerate Inc., whose parent company is Bridge Information Systems, will hold the 20th Annual Technical Analysis Conference (TAG XX) in Las Vegas November 21-23, 1998.
Workshops at the conference, each given twice over the course of three days, will cover aspects of technical analysis, as well as money management and the psychology of trading. Speakers are selected for both their technical and teaching ability. TAG conferences are designed to meet the needs of traders and investors of any experience level who use technical analysis to study the markets.
The Friday, November 20th preconference sessions will cover tools of the trade, a technical analysis introduction and overview. This eight-hour class covers all the basics of technical analysis and provides a comprehensive review.
A free 32-page conference guidebook is available on request. This guidebook details the conference and includes speakers' biographies and descriptions of the topics each will cover as well as an Internet listing of speakers' E-mail addresses and Web sites, where available.
The Active Investor Show will be held in Toronto on October 24-25, 1998. Our own Technical Editor John Sweeney will be there -- will you? The show aimed at individual, self-directed investors will host market professionals, brokerage firms, newsletter publishers, market advisors, portfolio managers and software publishers specializing in programs for the self-directed investor.
This year's theme is "Focus on interactive education." Guest speakers, including Thomas Dorsey, Michael Burke, Joe Stowell, Peter Eliades, Robert Miner, Patrick McKeough, Richard Croft, Adrian Day and Paul Bates, will give free seminars and talks.
Here's an opportunity to pit your trading skills against other online traders on the short side of the market, all in a simulated environment without risking real capital in the markets. Cyberoption will sponsor the Short Seller's Internet Investment Championship 1998. The contest begins November 2, 1998, and runs through December 31, 1998. Grand prize is $50,000. Participants may sign up for the contest on Cyberoption's Web site at https://www.cyberoption.com/sellshort.html.
All contest participants pay an entry fee and begin with a fictional trading account of $100,000. Orders are entered via E-mail. Trading is simulated and no orders are actually sent to exchanges, but players will receive regular account updates.
Stock timing experts Jeanne Long and Thomas Long of Galactic Trader and stock timing expert Grace Morris of Astro Economics will join forces to present a seminar in Chicago on November 14-15, 1998. The seminar, titled "Workshops that work," will combine technical analysis with planetary cycle analysis, and will discuss long-term market projections to the year 2001.
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