Prism Trading will hold a symposium on May 25-26, 2002 in Las Vegas, covering E-minis, daytrading stocks, $tick, volume, MACD, multiple time frames, and bet sizing. Early bird discounts by April 26. 

281 437-0817, www.PrismTrading.com 
 

eSignal, a division of Interactive Data Corporation, announced a strategic partnership with the brokerage firm MB Trading to integrate MB Trading's direct-access stock trading technology within eSignal's market data and analytic/charting applications. 

Leveraging MB Trading's direct, real-time, intelligent, Built-In Order Routing, the integrated solution creates a seamless platform for active traders to make decisions and timely trade executions. By eliminating the need to flip between a brokerage site and a workstation to execute a trade, professional and active traders can benefit from an advanced order management and trading system that provides the ability to place trades, manage accounts, and view trading reports directly within eSignal. 

www.mbtrading.com, www.esignal.com

Track Data Corp. has added futures trading to its myTrack online trading service. Initially, the stock index futures contracts that myTrack members will be able to trade are the ones traded electronically, the E-mini S&P 500 and the E-mini Nasdaq 100, with the Fortune e-50 and the Russell 2000 E-mini coming soon. Next year, when the SEC begins allowing individual stock futures to trade in the US, members will be able to trade them through myTrack. 

Track Data also has begun offering a special account for futures daytraders that provides increased margin leverage. The Designated Futures Day Trading Account is available to all qualified myTrack trading account holders. The daytrading margins are significantly less than those required for non-daytrading futures accounts. 

www.mytrack.com

NeuroShell DayTrader Professional from Ward Systems has added DTN, S&P ComStock, and Hyperfeed to its list of compatible intraday datafeeds. NeuroShell DayTrader continues to work with Quote.com for intraday and end-of-day data, but accesses the new datafeeds through the M3 Market Data Server, which is available free to users from www.mktstream.com. The M3 Market Data Server is used behind financial Internet services to provide real-time data to end users. 

The NeuroShell DayTrader enables investors to choose from traditional analysis techniques and artificial intelligence technology. Add-ons include fuzzy logic and cluster indicators for pattern recognition. 

www.neuroshell.com

Global Forex Trading has launched a tool that provides traders with instant market analysis and guidance on when to make trades. Using daily, ongoing analysis from fund managers, Market Mentor indicators allow traders to identify the time to buy into confirmed strength and sell into confirmed weakness using the sequence of Anticipate, Confirm, and then Trade (ACT). 

Market Mentor is available to subscribers of the DealBookFX trading software. Its two primary components are commentary and turning point analysis. The commentary feature offers analysis by a professional fund manager commenting as he trades. The turning point analysis feature is derived by mathematical analysis taking into consideration cycles, wave mechanics, quantum physics, time interval analysis, and the dates of prior support and resistance levels.

Sabrient Systems has launched a website oriented toward institutional investment firms, hedge fund managers, and financial advisors. The company's quantitative systems reflect risk profiles, time horizons, trading frequency, and other investment strategies, allowing professional investors customization choices. 

The new site highlights the company's perspective on the market. The Sabrient investment research team identifies outperforming stocks utilizing a research model, based on quantitative analysis, that adapts to current market conditions. Sabrient delivers equity investment research via electronic reports. Downloadable samples of the reports are available at the site. Standard reports include Value Stock Selection, Growth Stock Selection, and Momentum Stock Selection. Reports are published at regular intervals on four-week cycles, with optional buy/sell signals updated daily. 

www.sabrient.com

Sonic Trading launched a direct-access trading solution for the institutional trading community. It offers basket trading, smart order routing, built-in risk management tools, web-based trade data reporting, a FIX API connection, and trade desk support in one platform. 

Additional features include index arbitrage and pairs trading, hotkeys, point-and-click execution, order management, average buy and sell price calculations, order status, ECN outbound routing, multiple account trade allocation, VWAP calculations, and the ability to place reserve, hidden, pegged, discretionary, immediate/cancel, and limit orders. 

www.sonictrading.com

The Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong has launched its revamped Electronic Investor Resources Centre (eIRC). The eIRC covers five sections: monthly focus; news about topical issues in the market; investor updates; regulatory information; and game zone, where investors can play and learn. 

The eLibrary has links to more than 550 websites of regulators, market institutions, and market information, with a special focus on Hong Kong and China. 

Investor Education & Communications Department, Securities & Futures Commission, Hong Kong. 

www.hkeirc.org

Nag Data Mining Components from Numerical Algorithms Group allows risk analysts to develop customized data mining applications for analyzing large databases of tick data and similar market information. 

The Nag Data Mining Components allow quick prototyping of customized applications by eliminating the time it often takes to develop, debug, test, and maintain these methods. Written in C for Windows, Linux or Solaris platforms, Nag Data Mining Components can extract data from flat files or OBDC?compliant databases. 

www.nag.com 

Stock Smart, through KPN and E-Plus, will provide world stock quotes and performance graphs for stocks and indices in more than 40 countries including the US, Germany, Belgium, and The Netherlands. Users can receive their portfolio with alerts on many variables including currency exchange rates and stock prices. 

The service is offered in German and English. Stock Smart offers a Global Portfolio service available on both wireless devices and Internet desktops. The service is delivered to individual customers in partnership with telecommunications companies, and private branding through financial institutions. 

www.stocksmart.com

Fair Disclosure Financial Network (FDfn) offers AnalystCall, a proprietary process that generates, in near real-time, verbatim, interactive transcripts of corporate earnings conference calls for all companies listed in the S&P SuperComposite 1500, Nasdaq 100, and TSE 100, as well as an additional 500 selected companies. Users can immediately download the content as a plain-text document. After the conference call has ended, FDfn creates an interactive transcript that subscribers can search, click on a section of interest, and listen to that part of the actual audio from the call. 

www.fdfn.com 

With the same feel of Gecko-Charts 2.5, Track 'n Trade Pro from Gecko Software has a new level of efficiency. Users can change the size of the charts and use tick options that enable easier-to-view commodity charts onscreen, as well as excellent printed charts. There are now more preferences for tools, annotations, indicators, and the look of the charts. Users can make changes and preview them before applying. 

New tools will also please the experienced trader: faster downloads, built-in data download utility, better drawing capabilities, and improved indicator windows. There are also advanced tools and studies. Beginning traders can learn how to use indicators from the options panel, the documentation, and the indicator definitions. 

The price of the software is $69.95. Data is $19.95 a month or $199.50 per year. 

www.geckosoftware.com

Oster Communications and Dow Jones Newswires have agreed to create a new global commodity news company, OsterDowJones Commodity News. The announcement coincided with the opening of the Futures Industry Association's annual Futures and Options Expo in Chicago. 

The organizations will merge their commodity news staffs, distribution channels, and offices. The merger will create a global company that takes advantage of each organization's unique and complementary strengths. OsterDowJones will be two-thirds owned by Oster Communications, and one-third owned by Dow Jones. Three divisions will be: OsterDowJones FWN, the current Futures World News; OsterDowJones AgriWire, specializing in deep data and background stories covering US and global agriculture; and the OsterDowJones CommodityWire, giving global coverage in all time zones covering all commodities, including an overview on energy markets. 

OsterDowJones Commodity News began operating January 1, 2002. The new energy joint venture is expected to begin operating this spring. Oster Communications, Inc., is the parent company of FutureSource. 

www.Futuresource.com, www.djnewswires.com

Action Charts are based on the fact that the market is never wrong and that it is the market itself that ultimately determines whether an investor wins or loses. Wallstreetreality.com offers subscribers views of stocks, indices, commodities, currencies, and other tradables on several different cycles. 

Investors can observe coinciding cycles that signal buys or sells, or "setups." Daily, weekly, and monthly cycle changes are generated and ranked according to relative strength using the proprietary WSR Market Timer. Thus, an investor can see at a glance the changes that generated a setup.

www.wallstreetreality.com 

ProfitTrader was developed by Walter Bressert for the futures markets, but it has now been expanded to include stocks. 

The software attempts to help the trader to buy bottoms and sell tops with low dollar risk by generating high-probability mechanical buy/sell signals. Tight trailing stops are designed to help lock in profits and keep the trader in the markets and trading. 

ProfitTrader 7.0 shows historical cycle tops and bottoms on price and oscillators so you can verify the accuracy of oscillator trading signals. It shows multiple trading signals to help identify the most significant cycle bottoms and tops. 

ProfitTrader is powered by TradeStation. A 30-day money-back guarantee applies to all ProfitTrader first-time orders, minus a 10% refund fee to cover the merchant account discount rate. For more information, e-mail sales@walterbressert.com. 

www.walterbressert.com 

Visual Numerics announced that PV-Wave version 7.5 is now available. PV-Wave is a family of software products that helps engineers, scientists, researchers, and business analysts understand large and complex datasets using a variety of visual techniques. 

PV-Wave's interactive, array-based scripting language allows users to develop platform-neutral applications for manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing these datasets to detect and display trends, patterns, and anomalies. The software includes hundreds of mathematical and statistical functions from the company's IMSL C Numerical Library (CNL), as well as image processing, signal processing, and general mapping functionality. 

PV-Wave 7.5 delivers 3D interactive visualization techniques using OpenGL. Availability and pricing are available for many popular operating systems. Price varies from $1,795 to $3,995. 

www.vni.com