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June 2004

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FutureSource Introduces Flagship Charting Application

FutureSource introduced FutureSource Workstation, the company's new flagship technical analysis and charting application. Workstation brings real-time streaming futures, options, cash and foreign exchange data direct to the trader's computer via the Internet. Workstation includes up to 35 years of historical data, tick-by-tick, intraday, daily, weekly, monthly and continuation charts, 32 technical indicators in the base package, and 15 drawing tools, including Gann, Fibonacci, and Andrews' pitchfork, quote sheets with more than 60 customizable headings, dynamic time & sales with customizable color preferences, comprehensive news services, real-time visual and audible time, price and news alerts, and more. The company is also offering a 14-day trial for first-time Workstation demo users.

In other news, FutureSource has secured placement of its Workstation technical analysis and charting software in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's new Globex Learning Center. The Globex Learning Center is the world's first training facility dedicated to electronic trading. FutureSource Workstation is installed on all 50 terminals in the Globex trading arcade and computer classroom. FutureSource is also providing advanced options analytics and real-time streaming CME, CBOT, and foreign exchange data to complement currency futures traded on the CME. FutureSource and CME representatives collaborated to develop tools that will provide tools for their members as real-time streaming charts for their e-quotes application.

www.futuresource.com, www.cme.com

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Ivolatility.com Stock Sentiment Service Released

IVolatility.com has released a new stock sentiment service. For $7.95 a month, you will have access to stock trend analysis based on a combination of historical, technical, options-derived, and fundamental data. The service is made up of four sections: stock sentiment summary, interactive price band calculator, interactive technical analysis charts, and stock data. Stock sentiment summary is based on these values. There is a two-week free trial.

www.ivolatility.com

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Bollinger On Bollinger Bands: Two-Day Chicago Seminar On Advanced Topics

  John Bollinger is offering a two-day seminar on June 5-6, 2004, in Chicago covering trading systems and timing techniques crucial to profiting in the current market. On the first day, he will cover the topic of the Squeeze, and how to profit from walking the bands. He will also cover his newest system for short-term high performance trades. The second day will focus on market timing. Bollinger will examine classic timing tools and techniques, and modern tools to develop an approach to help pick off the best part of the big swings in the current market.

In addition, Bollinger will cover seasonality, buy and sell signals, and more. One-day attendees get a free six-month subscription (a $150 value) to www.GroupPower.com or www.BollingerOnBollingerBands.com. The book, Bollinger on Bollinger Bands, will be given to attendees of both days. Contact Aimee Tapp at 847 653-4144. Registration cost will be $695 for one day, and $1,195 for both days.

www.BollingerBands.com/seminar/chicago04.php

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 Market Simulation Engine Plots Strategies

Stock Thing announced that it has released the Stimulator. This software simulates stock market behavior based on historical data, allowing investors to plot strategies for NYSE, Nasdaq, and AMEX stocks. The Stimulator is structured for the average investor, displaying strategies and results in easy-to-understand terms. Stimulator has the ability to cycle through thousands of variations of core indicators (moving average, moving average convergence/divergence [MACD], average directional moving index [ADX], and so on), over lengthy or short periods, for numerous or individual symbols, allowing nonprofessionals to discover which indicators are significant during particular periods.

Simulation results are displayed in simple terms. Stimulator bases its simulations only on the amount of funds you can trade. Results are contingent on your starting investment, forcing you to "sell" positions in your hypothetical portfolio before entering new ones. The Stimulator presents a living reflection of market trends and helps the investor take advantage of mathematical and statistical similarities among stocks that have proven to be profitable.

www.StockThing.com

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PFG's Annual CTA Challenge

Peregrine Financial Group (PFG) announced that its second annual CTA Challenge has begun May 1, 2004. The CTA Challenge competition, an alliance between Trader Source, Inc. (TSI) and PFG, identifies emerging commodity trading advisor (CTA) talent by sponsoring a venue to showcase new trading strategies and techniques. The winner is eligible to receive a $1 million real trading account allocation from institutional investors selected by the PFG/TSI alliance. For this competition, which runs until October 30, 2004, emerging CTAs are defined as those having less than US $15 million in assets.

In addition, Peregrine Financial Group opened a New York City expansion of its foreign exchange and fund management operations. PFG recruited a core of five foreign exchange traders to provide execution capabilities in interbank foreign exchange.

www.pfgbest.com

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Knowledge Technology Solutions To Launch MarketTerminal

Knowledge Technology Solutions (KTS) was to have launched MarketTerminal, its international financial news and data product, at Dealing with Technology 2004 (DWT) on May 20, 2004. DWT is a key forum held in the City of London for data and IT professionals in the finance sector.

MarketTerminal is the international version of QuoteTerminal, KTS's existing UK financial news and data service. It has been in development for two years. MarketTerminal offers financial information, news, analytics, and real-time prices from a number of international exchanges. At launch, it was scheduled to include the NYSE, Nasdaq, AMEX, London Stock Exchange, London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE), Euronext, Deutsche Bourse, Irish Stock Exchange, and Xetra. KTS said it would continue expanding the number of exchanges.

www.ktsplc.com

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Tick Data Announces "Ready-To-Use" Tick Equity Database

Tick Data announced the Tick Equity Database, a "ready-to-use" NYSE trade and quote (TAQ) database. The database, which includes clean trade and quote data from January 1, 1993, to present, was developed for quantitative investment professionals who require institutional-quality historical equity data to design, test, and validate trading strategies and order execution services.

Tick Data combines software-based analytics and human analysis to ensure the final dataset is ready to use.

www.tickdata.com

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NumaSoft Launches Trade Management Software

NumaSoft has introduced a new product, Stops version 1.5 (an acronym for "Stop Tracking for Open Position Securities") trade management software for active stock traders. Stops addresses an often-overlooked facet of trading, methodical trade exits. By the use of automatic end-of-day price extracts from MetaStock, TC2000, ASCII datafiles, or the user's favorite website, the user employs such tools as maximum adverse excursion analysis to obtain the most profitable exit.

Stops provides real-time risk control, money management, system performance analysis and trade tracking of the user's actual trading system. Stops is $149, includes free lifetime technical support and user's manual. A fully functional 30-day free trial is available.

www.numasoft.com

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Investor Relations Competition Is Looking For Investor Judges

Who has the best investor relations website? That's what the Web Marketing Association will find out with the 2004 interactive Investor Relations Awards competition. Individuals can nominate themselves to judge. The Web Marketing Association, in partnership with the Wealth Management News Service, will host the first annual iIR Awards to recognize excellence in online investor relations website development. Companies compete with peers within more than 60 industry categories as well as against an overall standard of excellence. Sponsors of the interactive Investor Relations Awards include Barron's, The Wall Street Journal Online, and Google.

www.iirawards.org/iir/judges.asp, www.iirawards.org

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TradeStation Technologies To Host Conference And Expo

The 2004 TradeStationWorld Conference and Expo, formerly known as OmegaWorld, is scheduled for October 21-24 at the Venetian Hotel Resort Casino in Las Vegas. The conference will feature keynote presentations by technicians Linda Bradford Raschke, Nelson Freeburg, Jack Schwager, and David Stendahl. Approximately 35 "break-out" classroom-style sessions will be conducted by some of the industry's best-known trading professionals, and independent trading software developers and companies will be demonstrating and offering their products and services. For more information, visit the website or call 800 327-3794.

https://TradeStationWorld.com/conference/default.shtm

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Full-Version Upgrade Of MetaStock Is Available

MetaStock 9.0, a full-version upgrade, is the latest evolution in the MetaStock family of products. Its new features include enhanced data management tools, the introduction of the MetaStock Community, and much more. The MetaStock 9.0 end-of-day version is $499 plus shipping and handling; the real-time version, MetaStock Professional, is $1,695, and subscription versions are $59 and $199, respectively.

www.equis.com

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Market Traders Institute Launches MTI 4.0 Software

Market Traders Institute of North America has released MTI 4.0 charting and analytics software. This upgraded version of MTI includes more than 100 indicators and allows back-testing and strategy analysis, in addition to its preconfigured proprietary trading indicators showing automatic entry points. MTI 4.0 contains two proprietary system technologies that allows the user to simultaneously track four major currencies on one screen, provides real-time quotes, advanced charting capabilities, user-friendly charting, and technical analysis drawing tools. MTI 4.0 provides advanced alerts via desktop, phone, pager and email plus time alerts.

www.MTINorthAmerica.com

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MarketWatch.com Chooses MarketWise As Education Provider

 MarketWatch.com announced that it had partnered with MarketWise University for its market education campaign.

Proprietary courses on introductory and advanced investing and trading topics will be offered to CBS.MarketWatch.com and BigCharts.com users. Individuals will be able to attend online and live classes, where they will develop market acumen and put their skills to work with real money in real time. At $399 online, most classes are priced low enough to appeal to investors and traders at all income and experience levels.

www.marketwatch.com
www.marketwise.com

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eSignal 7.6 Adds Tokyo Stock Exchange, Real-Time Options Analysis

 eSignal, a division of Interactive Data Corp., announced that eSignal 7.6 was now available. It focuses on improving options trading information with the introduction of OptionsPlus, designed to provide traders with institutional-quality decision support for options trading. eSignal 7.6 extends its reach into Asian markets with five new Asian exchanges, including the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and a new add-on study from TrendVue.com for use in analyzing market trends.

www.esignal.com
www.interactivedatacorp.com

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VIX Futures Debut On CBOE Futures Exchange

The CBOE Futures Exchange said that it had begun trading futures contracts on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX). The CBOE Futures Exchange offers an all-electronic, open-access market model, with traders providing liquidity and making markets. VIX futures are based on the CBOE Volatility Index, which was first introduced in 1993 and quickly became the benchmark index of market sentiment. Derived from real-time Standard & Poor's 500 index option prices, the VIX is designed to reflect investors' consensus view of expected stock market volatility over the next 30 days.

In other news, the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) will list two variance futures contracts. The new contracts are the CBOE S&P 500 one-month variance and the S&P 500 three-month variance futures (symbols VO and VT). The new contracts will be based on the realized variance of the S&P 500. Variance futures are expected to launch in the second quarter of 2004. The contracts will be cash settled, for a value based on a standardized calculation of the realized variance of the S&P 500.

www.cboe.com

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NexTrend 6.0 Released

NexTrend Technologies has announced the release of NexTrend version 6.0 for traders, hedge funds, and institutions. This newest version provides users with the benefit of a stand-alone trading version, a stand-alone analysis version, or a fully integrated trading and analysis platform. New features include free simulated trading accounts, free ECN depth of books, free news, enhanced order entry, vast order types, automated routing capabilities, SuperMontage for exchange-listed securities, button trading, and a customizable order entry interface.

www.nextrend.com

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Townsend Analytics Distributes GTIS Real-Time Data On RealTick Trading Platform

Townsend Analytics, Ltd., a division of Interactive Data Corp., announced that it is distributing GTIS real-time foreign exchange rates and precious metals market data through its RealTick trading platform. GTIS is part of ComStock, another division of Interactive Data.

www.taltrade.com
www.gtis.com

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