July 2002 TRADE NEWS
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TRADE NEWS & PRODUCTS

Swing Trading The QQQ Nasdaq-100 Index with Options

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

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

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

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


 		 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

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, https://geocities.com/stockusa2002

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Wireless Forex Capabilities

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

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

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

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

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

  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

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

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

  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

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

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).

https://tools.island.com

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