Robbins Trading Company and LaSalle St. Securities have announced the 2000 World Cup Championship of Stock and Options Trading, to be held October 2 to December 29, 2000. The competition is a prelude to three separate trading championships for stocks, futures, and options in 2001.
Robbins has sponsored the World Cup Championship of Futures Trading since 1984. The structure of the stock and options trading contest will be similar to that of Robbins Trading's established futures competition: real-time trading, with real money, for prizes. At stake in the World Cup Championship series will be approximately $2 million in cash and prizes (based on 500 entrants), plus bull and bear trophies. Only contestants in voluntary cash pools will vie for cash prizes.
The 2001 WCC schedule includes separate contests in futures, stock, and options categories. Account minimums are set at $15,000 for the futures contest and $25,000 for the stock and options events. Contestants can enter at any time during the contest period. Online commissions rates of $25 for futures and stock trades and $27.50 for options trades (plus $2 per contract) will apply. LaSalle St. Securities, a correspondent broker/dealer of National Financial Services, will act as broker for the equities competitions. Current 2000 World Cup Championship of Futures Trading standings are posted at https://www.robbinstrading.com.
Robbins Trading Company
800 453-4444
773 714-9000
info@robbinstrading.com
THESTREET.COM ANALYST AWARDS 2000
TheStreet.com has completed an analyst survey to help investors evaluate equity analysts' skills in stockpicking. Ballots were distributed to approximately 3,000 investment professionals, allowing them to vote for the top analysts in more than 80 industry categories. This survey combines both qualitative and quantitative performance measures. To arrive at the quantitative measure, TheStreet.com evaluated the accuracy of each analyst's ratings of stocks over a 12-month period, working with data from I/B/E/S International, a global financial information-services and technology company, to measure the analysts' stock-picking skills. The two measures were combined for a ranking that is intended to be more meaningful than either a popularity contest or a simple grid of results.
A complete list of winners in all categories can be found on TheStreet.com Website. Over the next year, TheStreet.com will focus on a specific sector each week on its site and interview winning analysts on their outlook and stock picks.
TheStreet.com
14 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005
212 321-5000
fax 212 321-5016
www.thestreet.com
I/B/E/S International, Inc.
One World Trade Center, 18th floor
New York, NY 10048
800-GET-IBES
212 437-8200
fax 212 390-1701
https://www.ibes.com
ONLINE TECHNICAL COMMENTARY, LIVE CHARTING & ANALYSIS FOR FUTURES TRADERS
TradingSignals.com offers live charting, technical commentary, and an intraday trading system for the S&P mini on its Website. Tradesignals.com uses the Internet as a cost-efficient delivery mechanism for bringing cutting-edge systematic trading systems and analysis directly to professional and private futures investors. Its charting services provides future traders with interactive futures charting. It also provides drawing capabilities, such as trendlines. The site now features in-depth technical news, commentary, and chart analysis on all markets analyzed by the company.
Traders Software Co., Inc.
20070 Palm Island Drive
Boca Raton, FL 33498
800 637-6529, 561-451-8899
fax 561-451-0034
info@tradesignals.com
www.tradesignals.com
LIVE TRADING ADVICE, CHARTING AND CUSTOMER SUPPORT
TradeSignals.com offers real-time trading advice, charting, and customer support on its Website via LivePerson's customer service solutions. Since 1997, TradeSignals has been publishing systematic trading systems and analysis of futures investors on the Web. Its Java charting services provide traders with sophisticated interactive futures charting. Usage of the site has grown particularly since the relaunch in November 1999, and the introduction of live quotes, technical and market news, E-mail trade alerts, and S&P mini intraday trading systems. The introduction of LivePerson enables traders to chat in real time with the TradeSignals.com trading and support desk, overcoming the inherent delays in E-mail communication.
Tradesignals.com
Great Island Enterprise Park, West End
Ballincollig, Cork, Ireland
+353 21 876 525
fax +353 21 876 542
info@tradesignals.com
www.tradesignals.com
REASONABLY PRICED OPTIONS SOFTWARE
Option Wizard Online offers a futures version of its software for real-time or delayed data. Enter the ticker symbol and options expiration date, and Option Wizard instantly prices and analyzes its calls and puts. Option Wizard generates the Black model (futures) fair value option price, 110 price-time variants in a copyrighted tabular display, volatilities, percent-to-double, in-the-money probability, Greeks (delta, gamma, theta, vega, rho), delta tables, strike series, spread tables, charts, PositionTable, PositionChart, CoveredWrites, and TradeRecordkeeper. Historical volatilities are referenced by hyperlink to https://www.pmpublishing.com/volatility/index.html.
Option Wizard offers a product upgrade program to match the user's needs. Option Wizard 7.3 offline software is $299.95. Option Wizard Online Futures Delay (20-minute delay) is $399.95 (no data charge). Option Wizard Online Futures Real Time is $599.95 and requires a monthly subscription for real-time data.
The Option Wizard Trading Method is $99.95. Backtest Wizard 3.1 is a customizable technical analysis and technical trading system development worksheet in Microsoft Excel that imports 200 days of stock data, analyzes volume, moving averages, and stochastics, and returns buy and sell signals and tracks trading results. Other technical indicators include rate of change, relative strength index, and directional movement index. Backtest Wizard is $199.95.
Option Wizard
Sarkett & Associates, Inc.
485 Sunset Rd.
Winnetka, IL 60093
847 446-2222
info@option-wizard.com
https://option-wizard.com
REFINED PETROLEUM PRODUCTS TRADING
RedMeteor.com, a global, Internet-based, open trading platform for crude oil, natural gas liquids, and electricity, announced the addition of refined petroleum products trading to its Website. RedMeteor.com's new refined products trading capability is designed to handle all types of physical and financial trades, including buying, selling, buy/sell spreads, location trades, cross-product trades, and fixed or floating pricing. Traders can easily access different geographic and products markets. Traders can easily access different geographic and product markets.
The refined products trading launched with gasoline, heating oil, and jet fuel on Colonial Pipeline, the most heavily traded pipeline for refined products. During the first few weeks, refined petroleum traders could become accustomed to the system by trading in one basic geographic area where they could develop liquidity. RedMeteor plans to add Explorer Pipeline, Williams Pipeline, and TEPPCO Pipeline systems to the site. A variety of other trading possibilities will become available when New York Harbor trading is implemented.
Utilizing state-of-the-art XML technology, RedMeteor.com has created an extendable way for trading operations to integrate with front-, mid-, back-office, and liaison support systems. Traders can track credit risk information and integrate data into their own risk-management systems. The company will further integrate its XML technology into wireless extensions to improve the functionality of the model. The wireless capability will allow traders to make trades from any source with an Internet connection, such as cell phones or an electronic organizer.
RedMeteor.com
Sugar Land, TX
281 243-6573
https://www.redmeteor.com
PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN NEOVEST FIRSTALERT TECHNOLOGY
On-Site Trading
https://www.onsitetrading.com
Neovest, https://www.neovest.com
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On-Site Trading, an electronic brokerage, has formed a value-added reselling (VAR) partnership with Neovest, in which it will add the Neovest FirstAlert trading system on a nonexclusive basis to its suite of trading technologies.
The On-Site Trading version of the FirstAlert system will include the company's proprietary S.M.A.R.T. Trading Technology, which provides best execution on every trade by searching all market makers and ECNs for the best price. On-Site Trading will be responsible for the first level of technical support, with Neovest serving as a backup. On-Site Trading is an electronic brokerage that enables traders to trade directly into the stock markets using the firm's customized PCs, either from remote locations or from one of its 22 trading floors in nine states.
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MG FINANCIAL GROUP'S ADVANCED TRADING PLATFORM
Dealing 24 hours a day and all over the world, foreign exchange trading never rests. Unfortunately, most traders do not have the ability to watch the markets continuously around the clock, so trading prospects can be missed.
MG Financial Group's advanced trading platform offers several tools to help its clients plan out their strategies and have the MG dealing desk execute them while the traders are away from their computers. No matter at what time of the day or night a trading possibility occurs, the if-done orders service offer traders the ability to take advantage of these opportunities.
An if-done order is planned in advance but only activated upon execution of another order. In other words, it's an order that's sequentially activated, not by a rate but by the execution of another order upon which it is contingent. For example, you can leave an order to buy yen at 106, "if done" then to sell yen at 105.50, specifically in that sequence. An if-done order will only become active when the order it is attached to is executed.
Deal Station 2000 offers easy-to-use features such as the if-done order and OCO, which can accommodate more flexible trading strategies.
MG Financial Group
40 Exchange Place, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10005
888 MGFOREX
212 835-0100
fax 212-835-0101
eASCTREND 5.0 MECHANICAL AND AUTOMATIC TRADING SYSTEM
eASCTrend 5.0 from AbleSys Corporation, a stand-alone Windows program, is a fully automatic trading system with statistical backtesting and system performance reports. It provides 100% mechanical buy and sell signals with visual and sound alerts.
eASCTrend 5.0 signals are based on ASCTrend's own technology. Not dependent on curve-fitting, eASCTrend 5.0 is dynamic and universal for all markets. Automatic system optimization capability is built in for optimal parameters, optimal exit rules, and optimal trading intervals. Multimarket AutoScan works for both real-time and end-of-day. ASCTrend works with any markets and with any time bars. It makes no difference whether the markets are stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, or any other freely traded markets.
AbleSys Corporation
24301 Southland Drive, Suite 400
Hayward, CA 94545
510 265-1883
fax 510 265-1993
sales@ablesys.com
www.ablesys.com
INTERACTIVE ONLINE TRAINING
All-Tech Training Group has launched a live, interactive online training program for direct-access electronic trading. Traintotrade.com is an interactive, streaming, live video classroom for teaching traders how to execute their own stock market trades.
Traintotrade.com allows student traders to log into classes broadcast from television studios at All-Tech Training Group's corporate offices in Montvale, NJ. An instructor leads students through two-hour classes with such features as streaming video, moderated live chat exchanges, and easy-to-follow onscreen text. Traintotrade.com includes actual stock market fluctuations using actual retained or "canned" stock market data preserved for classroom use. To introduce prospective traders to direct-access electronic trading, traintotrade.com is offering a free, two-hour tutorial.
Traintotrade.com utilizes ATTAIN Plus software, the trading system for providing individual traders with direct-market access through the student's or trader's high-speed Internet connection. Experienced traders will continue to use All-Tech's ATTAIN Pro proprietary software. All-Tech Training Group is affiliated with All-Tech Direct, which operates more than 20 branches across the United States. However, an increasing number of traders are shifting from the trading-floor setting to trading remotely, from home, offices, and other locations.
Traintotrade.com Global Headquarters
160 Summit Ave.
Montvale, NJ 07645
877 432-9872
train@traintotrade.com
www.traintotrade.com
REAL-TIME INTEGRATED ECN LIMIT ORDER BOOK COMBINING ISLAND/ARCHIPELAGO DATA
3DStockCharts.com provides a continuous portrayal of stock market buy and sell orders in a colorful three-dimensional graphic format. 3DStockCharts.com has taken further steps toward true ECN limit order integration by combining buy/sell data from two of the largest electronic communications networks (ECNs), Island ECN and Archipelago ECN.
By turning its central focus toward the integration of limit-order data from two of the nation's leading ECNs, the 3DStockCharts is helping the investment industry move closer to a truly egalitarian marketplace. 3DStockCharts provides investors an immediate read regarding the buy and sell pressures that lie behind current stock pricing, providing insight into pricing trends not apparent simply by tracking a quoted price. 3DStockCharts allows investors to see the action behind the quote by showing, in real time, the number and size of buy/sell orders that are lining up for any of thousands of publicly traded stocks. By viewing this continually updated data, investors can get a better sense of the buy/sell pressures influencing a particular stock price, making them better informed about when to complete a transaction.
3DStockCharts.com, Inc.
203 Chapala St.
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
805 560-8336
fax 805 560-3807
info@3DStockCharts.com
https://www.3DStockCharts.coM
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