September 2002 TRADE NEWS
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TRADE NEWS & PRODUCTS

University Presents Technical Analysis Seminars

Golden Gate University will offer monthly workshops on technical analysis, with topics ranging from Dow theory, chart-based technical analysis, natural and unnatural systems, rhythmic trading, stop systems, pragmatic portfolio theory, and the language of the markets, as well as how not to be eaten in bear markets, and finally, a Saturday morning workshop to review technical trading principles and actual situations in the market. The instructor is adjunct professor W.H.C. Bassetti. The seminars are Sept. 20-22, Oct. 18-20, Nov. 15-17, and Dec. 13-15.

www.johnmageeta.com or osias@ucd.net

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Single Stock Futures Seminar Series

Learn about the opportunities in single stock futures by attending a seminar in Dallas (September 21), Orlando, FL (October 19), or Marina del Rey, CA (November 9). Speakers include Price Headley and Mark Cook. For more information call 888 341-1819.

Single Stock Futures, www.ssftrading.com

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WizeFEST Launches Convention

Wizetrade's first annual convention will be held October 3, 4, and 5, 2002, in Dallas, TX. The convention will feature nationally known speakers including Bob Dole, Richard Belluzzo, and Zig Ziglar. It will also host panel discussions, training sessions, and presentations. Seating is limited. The price, $397 per person (nonrefundable), includes admission to all keynote speaker events, seminars, panel discussions, cocktail reception, networking opportunities, breakfast and lunch both days, and entertainment. Call 877 733-9520 for more information.

WizeTrade, www. wizetrade.com

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New Generation of Charting Tools for CME

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) recently added 13 new currency contracts to the Globex trading platform, and single stock futures are on its horizon. Emerging opportunities such as these and growing volume will require robust analytical platforms.

To meet that challenge, the CME is joining forces with Digital Integrator to offer UltraCharts real-time charting software. UltraCharts 2 is a customizable, real-time charting application with an extensive library of technical studies that may be modified by the user.

Digital Integrator works to provide a custom datafeed for each individual user, incorporating proprietary compression technology and maximum delivery rates. Users can receive true real-time quotes starting at $59/month.

UltraCharts 2 and Momentum Indicator, www.localknowledge.com

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NYSE Releases Analytic Database

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has launched Nyse OpenBook Database, which will provide historical data with respect to NYSE limit orders. This database is a research and reference tool for professionals who require depth of data without the need for real-time updates. The product provides a complete historical view of all the previous day's NYSE OpenBook activity and up to one past year. It also has a tool for analyzing changes to the limit-order book over a given period. Data is available through a file transfer or website interface via subscription.

NYSE OpenBook Database, www.nysedata.com

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NeoNet Offers Electronic Trading Access to NASDAQ

NeoNet has launched electronic trading access to Nasdaq via NeoNet's stock exchange network. Through the company's electronic exchange network, clients are able to access approximately a third of the world's stock market capitalization. NeoNet's connection to Nasdaq marks a step in the company's transition from a pan-European service to a global equity trading one. With NeoNet's global network, clients can reach additional liquidity sources and consolidate European and US trading activities, eliminating the need for several different systems for trading at different exchanges.

NeoNet, www.neonetsecurities.com 

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MarketWatch.com Acquires Hulbert Financial Digest

MarketWatch.com announced it acquired The Hulbert Financial Digest, a publication devoted to tracking invest ment newsletters. In a related move, MarketWatch.com also launched an online newsletter center on its flagship financial news site, CBS MarketWatch.com, featuring the Hulbert Financial Digest.

The Hulbert Financial Digest is now being offered by paid subscription exclusively at CBS.MarketWatch.com in addition to customized reports on specific newsletter sectors. The newsletter center includes a directory of financial newsletters as well as commentary about the financial newsletter industry, including features from and about top newsletter editors and their strategies.

MarketWatch.com

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Interactive Stock-Screening Tool

Hershey's TickeRank is a stock-screening tool that eases the task of gathering and sorting stock data found on the Internet. TickeRank centralizes the web's most prominent stock lists and provides a customized ranking system in minutes. The program can be evaluated for free, and the registered version amounts to only $2 per month. The user can specify criteria, and TickeRank does the work.

www.TickeRank.com

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Business Model for Direct-Access Trading Introduced

Tradeanywhere has announced its latest product, Tradebox, a new business model to direct- access trading. It eliminates per-share or per-ticket charges billed to the broker-dealer by the direct-access vendor. For a one-time fee, broker-dealers can own a perpetual license to use Tradebox hardware and software, allowing them to be their own direct-access vendors for less than $100,000.

Tradebox includes order routing to up to 500 market centers, contains two front-end trading stations, a fully functional back office, credit checking, automated uploads and downloads of clearing files, and for a monthly fee, a host of real-time market data applications. Tradebox is available starting at $95,000 in English, Spanish, and simplified Chinese.

TRADEanywhere.com

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Ensign Software is Upgraded

Ensign Software has announced an upgrade to the Ensign Windows charting software.

New toolbars and user interface provide more flexibility and customization, and the chart capacity has been increased to 65,000 bars. The Simulated Broker (SimBroker) feature allows traders to paper trade with a simulated electronic order entry system. A new PlayBack feature allows any market to be played back in real-time, allowing traders to paper trade, study, or view past market days for any symbol in real-time.

Ensign Software, www.ensignsoftware.com

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Irrational Investor Behavior Used To Predict Stock Price Movements

A new understanding of why and how investors behave irrationally in their stock market investing is now being used to predict short-term future stock price movements.

David Schimel, president of financial services company International Equity Trading Partners (IET), has created an algorithm that measures investor behavior in reaction to daily changes in stock prices. In addition, Schimel, who is also the president of TradingGains.com, is also offering a directional indicator of short-term stock price movement.

The website provides daily relative performance rankings for more than 3,000 actively traded stocks. Based on a scale of 1 to 6, with “1” indicating a stock is likely to outperform the S&P 500 index over the next few days and a “6” indicating likely strong underperformance, relative performance rankings (RPR) indicate how individual stocks are likely to perform relative to the market over the short term.

Relative performance rankings are based on a proprietary mathematical model that measures behavioral force, the collective irrational responses of investors to changes in a stock's price. The website offers daily RPR on a subscription basis beginning at $35 per month.

TradingGains.com

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Analytical Software For Stocks and Mutual Funds

Hamilton Software has released Fundwatch 3.0, allowing investors to download and analyze historical data for stocks and mutual funds; rank investments alongside market indexes; and calculate trends.

Fundwatch gives fund- and stockpickers a set of technical analysis tools and a look at price history. Fundwatch tracks price and dividend data for mutual funds, stocks, and indexes, providing graphical and listed comparisons of performance, volatility, momentum, and trend.

Historical price data and weekly updates can be downloaded for free from any of several websites or entered manually. For graphical analysis, Fundwatch allows price-adjusted performance for multiple securities to be graphed together for direct comparison on linear or log scale, and can superimpose simple or exponential moving averages, least-square lines, and other studies.

Fundwatch 3.0 costs $39.95 (upgrade for $19.95). A free demo can be downloaded.

Hamilton Software, www.hamiltonsoftware.com

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Streamlined Portfolio Report Organizer Is Released

CMS BondEdge has released the BondEdge PRO feature for streamlined portfolio processing from a single screen. The BondEdge product offers more than 100 standard reports, plus an unlimited number of customized reports. BondEdge PRO allows clients to create and save combinations of portfolio and report settings and organize them from a single screen. Portfolio reporting can then be automated, with various file printing and export options available for web posting.

CMS BondEdge, www.cmsbondedge.com

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Real-Time Scanning and Alert System

ATrade Investment Technology has announced Gr8Alert, a proprietary technical analysis and alert system designed for the active equities trader, a hardware- and software-intensive application broken into two distinct components.

The server component is a number-crunching service accessed via TCP/IP using the client application. The server component contains the technical analysis models used to generate real-time data consisting of: 1) stock alerts, 2) classification of stock alerts as either long or short, and 3) timing signals. It uses a real-time datafeed.

The Gr8Alert client application runs on a trader's desktop. The client is used to retrieve remote alert data based upon the server's technical analysis. The combination of server hardware and technical analysis models alleviate the need to conduct exhaustive analysis before responding to short-term trading opportunities.

Gr8Alert has a 30-day free evaluation. After that, it is $250/month.

ATrade Investment Technologies, www.AtradeAtATime.com

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New Daytrading Tool

Divergence Software released S/R Analyst, a new end-of-day trading tool for the trader who wants to exploit the concepts of support/resistance and trendlines. S/R Analyst, an evaluation of which can be downloaded for free, helps equity, index, and commodity traders identify low-risk entry points (as well as high-risk scenarios if they are holding an open position) by calculating pivot points and then projecting support/resistance zones, trendlines, and divergences on daily and weekly charts.

The software can also generate a list of trade candidates based on specifications entered by the trader, or confirm trading decisions made using other technical analysis/trading applications.

Divergence Software, www.sr-analyst.com

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Daytrading Course Helps Traders Overcome Psychological Hurdles

The Emini Daytrading Course has released a new CD in response to requests for positive trading affirmations. The affirmations address many common trading problems such as overtrading, creating a trade when one doesn't exist, entry risk, and more. The cost is $50.

Emini Daytrading Course, www.daytradingcourse.com/cd

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ProfitTrader Cycle Software

Walter Bressert's ProfitTrader add-in software for MetaStock makes it easier to trade with the trend and buy bottoms and sell tops. The program has eight mechanical trading signals that frequently occur at cycle tops and bottoms, oscillator patterns that identify cycle/swing highs and lows, and also has trend indicators.

An in-depth, 30-page online presentation shows how to use the ProfitTrader for MetaStock indicators to identify cycle tops and bottoms as they occur and generate mechanical buy and sell trading signals.

Walter Bressert, www.walterbressert.com

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Daily Top 10 Most Undervalued Stock Lists

The Stratford Group has announced its Private Stock Analysis Program (Psap) for professional financial managers. The program allows investment professionals and private investors to have immediate Internet access to a listing of each day's top 10 and top 25 most undervalued stocks. The stock selections are the result of the daily analysis of financial data for more than 5,000 stocks.

ValueStockFinder.com

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Specialized Agriculture Weather Forecasts Are Expanded

WeatherMarkets.com has expanded its selection of map-based products to include agricultural-specific parameters, such as evapo-transpiration, solar radiation, vegetative wetting, soil temperatures, and livestock stress. Growing degree-day maps for major growing areas of the world are also now available, along with soil moisture maps for all major wheat, corn, and soybean growing regions. WeatherMarkets.com has also lowered prices on most of its 470 agriculture industry forecast and weather data products.

WeatherMarkets.com

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Global Forex Trading Teams Up With Forex Trader Australia

Global Forex Trading has established a relationship with Forex Trader Australia. The relationship is established under a sublicense agreement with Forex Trader International to offer its clients access to forex and currency trading across the world through Gft's DealBookFX software. Global Forex Trading has existing relationships with referring parties in 20 other countries and trades in more than 40 currency pairs. It also offers a 24-hour live trading desk.

Global Forex Trading, www.gftforex.com 

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Forex Charting, Analysis From FX First On Forbes.com

FX First announced a new content partnership with Forbes.com. FX First will provide currency analysis, interactive charts for the major currency pairs, and its new Currency Converter for Forbes.com viewers. FX First's DealSmart is a multithread charting and information system, capable of displaying real-time charts.

FX First, www.fxfirst.com

Forbes.com, www.forbes.com

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Web-Based Technology Simulates Trading and Investment Ideas

Eurasia Software has launched TBOTS (Trading Bots), web-based technology enabling investors to simulate their own trading and investment ideas on decades of historical data, and to track their ideas on a continuous basis without requiring programming or datafeeds.

More powerful versions are available to business customers in three formats: 1) TBOTS Hosting Service, which is a hosted version aimed at financial service websites seeking to offer TBOTS to their users; 2) TBOTS Dedicated Server, a high-performance platform powering proprietary trading analysis; and 3) TBOTS Professional Services, which is aimed at customers requiring a tailored product.

The TBOTS platform is based on a rule-based paradigm that helps you to translate investment ideas into useful automated strategies.

TBOTS (Trading Bots), www.tbots.com
 

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Euronext.LIFFE Brings Global Access To US SWAP Futures Market

Euronext.liffe has launched a suite of $Swapnote futures contracts based on the US swap curve. $Swapnote futures will reflect actual price changes in the over-the-counter (Otc) market for plain-vanilla swaps more closely than any other dollar swap futures contract, providing a risk management and investment vehicle. $Swapnote futures will be traded on the trading platform, Liffe Connect, with the support of Bank of New York.

Euronext.liffe, www.liffe.com

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Peregrine Financial Group Opens Canadian Branch Office

Marking commitment to its international presence, Peregrine Financial Group has established a Canadian branch office in Toronto, Ontario. Peregrine Financial Group Canada will offer investment vehicles including full-service broker-assisted accounts, discount service accounts, online trading accounts, and 24-hour global trading. PFG now has branch offices in the US, Canada, Europe, and Latin America.

Peregrine Financial Group, www.pfgca.com

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TradeStation Announces New Corporate Headquarters

TradeStation Group has relocated and consolidated its three south Florida offices into a new 70,000-square-foot facility in Plantation, FL. The new address is: 8050 SW 10th St., Plantation, FL 33324-9843, phone 954 652-7000.

TradeStation Group, www.tradestation.com

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