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 FREE -- The Ultimate Trader's Toolbox on CD-ROM from NetFutures.com is a new tool for online futures traders, and it's free for the asking.
The Ultimate Trader's Toolbox, developed by NetFutures vice president Matt Zaner, can help ease the way for trading over the Internet. The CD contains a copy of NetFutures.com's "Rocket Millennium" trading software, which installs quickly from the CD. The CD also contains a copy of "10 Secrets Every Internet Futures Trader Should Know," along with NetFutures.com's recording, "How Young Millionaires Trade Commodities." Plus, you'll get point-and-click Internet hyperlinks to charts, proprietary research, 15-minute delayed price quotes, and more, all free. For convenience, account application forms for placing trades through NetFutures.com are included on the CD to help get traders on their way to trading faster. Trades placed through NetFutures.com cost a flat fee of $9.99 each way. Free support is available by telephone as well as by Internet, and new account holders can make free practice trades before placing real orders. Commissions will be refunded if the trader is not satisfied with service. NetFutures |
| UPGRADE -- Essex Trading has released version 4.0 of its options-trading program, Option Pro. The new version features automatic buy/sell signals for equity and futures options; a new probability calculator; and quicker, easier downloads.
Version 4.0 expands the trading signal generation capabilities of version 3.0 and now generates specific buy and sell trading signals for stocks and/or futures options using strategies for buying calls or puts, straddles, covered calls, and bear call/bull put spreads. The new strategies were developed by Jay Kaeppel, director of research at Essex Trading and author of several books. Version 4.0 also includes a new probability calculator for helping to determine the probability of a target price being reached and the odds of success for common option trading strategies. Advanced traders can use it to select the best strangles to sell based on the probability of profit and standard deviations. Other new features include 32-bit technology, Y2K compliance, expanded use of bid-and-ask quotes, standard deviation analysis, futures pricing tables, and a stock database utility. The end-of-day version is $995; the real-time version is $1,495. A free trial version is available for $25 s&h. Essex Trading Company, Ltd. |
| NEW -- OmniAlert.com has launched a real-time market data and news alerting service that sends customized alerts to subscribers' digital wireless phones, pagers, computers, and other digital devices, so subscribers can follow their trading interests even when they don't have access to a computer.
Subscribers set up alert triggers based on price, volume, or news headlines. When triggers are met, OmniAlert instantly sends a time-stamped real-time text message that describes the event, or delivers the headline, to the wireless device. OmniAlert monitors more than 100,000 securities, options, and futures plus 17,000 Comtex news headlines per day. OmniAlert.com |
| UPDATE -- Ken Trester of the Institute for Options Research has released his options-trading video series on CD-ROM for Windows.
The digital CD format has several advantages and conveniences over the videotape format: view the training sessions at your computer; instantly jump to any point in the video; freeze frames; review video portions; and resize the video presentation screen to any size or shape on your monitor. As an introductory special, purchase one of the six videos for the regular price of $99 plus $4 shipping and receive a second video free (offer expires December 15, 1999). Each video is approximately two hours each. Institute for Options Research, Inc. |
NEW FUTURES ADVISORY SERVICE BASED ON ELLIOTT WAVE
Elliott Wave International has launched a futures advisory service. The service, Futures Junctures, provides analysis of futures markets, in a monthly or daily format, by Elliott wave experts. The service identifies markets that have fully completed wave structures, which may indicate key reversals.
Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy reviews the wave structures of all major futures markets for clean Elliott wave counts and highest probability for the next move, and issues his picks. A labeled chart is provided with picks, along with mini-lessons on wave analysis and a review of how accurate or inaccurate his last analysis was.
Elliott Wave International offers three introductory subscription rates for the different levels of service, all with a money-back guarantee. The advisory is available over the Internet, by E-mail, or by regular mail (mail delivery to non-US addresses is an additional $1.50/month).
Elliott Wave International Customer Service
Phone 800 336-1618 or 770-536-0309
Fax 770 536-2514
E-mail customerservice@elliottwave.co
Internet www.elliottwave.com
21ST TAG CONFERENCE FOR MARKET TECHNICIANS
The Technical Analysis Group (TAG) will hold its 21st annual conference, TAG21, in Las Vegas, November 20-22, 1999. This year's focus is on daytrading and the Internet.
The three-day conference will feature speeches and workshops on all aspects of technical trading. A preconference on November 19 will offer sessions on specialized areas.
The TAG21 conference registration fee is $795; the preconference is an additional $295. The conference single-day rate is $295. For registration and information, call 888 TAG-0858 or 504 899-1333, fax 504 899-0546, E-mail tag@ino.com, or visit https://ino.com/tag.
LIVE ELECTRONIC TRADING
Peregrine Financial Group (PFG) announced a live connection to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's (CME) Application Programming Interface, allowing PFG's Best Direct order entry system to communicate directly with GLOBEX2, the CME's electronic trading system under the supervision and management of its clearing firm. PFG's Best Direct software submits market and limit orders and canceled limit orders on September's E-Mini S&P 500 and E-Mini Nasdaq 100 contracts to GLOBEX2. The new system increases order transmission speed.
PFG, Chicago Mercantile Center
30 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 2020
Chicago, IL 60606
Phone 312 454-8966, 800 333-5673
Fax 312 648-3808
PREPARING FOR RETIREMENT
Prepare financially for retirement with three free booklets from the Consumer Information Center: About Annuities, Making A Will, and Establishing A Trust Fund. Determine whether a trust fund is right for you, take an annuity quiz to decide which type of annuity is best for you, and get tips on writing a will. Call 888 878-3256 and ask for ÒPlanning your financial futures,Ó write to Consumer Information Center, Planning your financial future, Pueblo, CO 81009, or visit www.pueblo.gsa.gov to view, print, or download publications.
The Social Security Administration will launch the largest customized mailing ever undertaken by a federal agency when it sends an annual Social Security Statement to 125 million workers.
The four-page statement is designed to help workers with financial planning by providing estimates of their retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. The statement will also provide workers with an easy way to determine whether their earnings are accurately posted on their Social Security records. This is an important feature because Social Security benefits are based on an individual's career wage records.
The annual Social Security Statement is the result of efforts by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan to establish in law the requirement that all Americans receive an annual statement of potential Social Security benefits. By law, SSA will send the annual statements to workers who are ages 25 and older and not receiving Social Security benefits. SSA will stagger the mailing of the statements throughout the year, with approximately 500,000 statements delivered each day. Workers will automatically receive their statements about three months before their birth month.
Social Security benefits are based on how much you've earned; pay benefits if you become disabled, and pay benefits to dependents of workers who die. Social Security was designed to provide only part of a person's total retirement income.
