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Spooz Files Patent Application For Integrated Trading System
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Spooz Files Patent Application For Integrated Trading System
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 Spooz
Files Patent Application For Integrated Trading System
Spooz, Inc., said it had filed patent applications for its proprietary software and business processes. The company also reported it had applied for a copyright on its futures and options trading program source code. The SpoozToolz! system, initially designed for futures and options traders, is available for downloading on a trial basis at its website. The two-week free trial includes real-time data from the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Kansas City Board of Trade. Data from other markets is available on a delayed basis. A full-featured version, including all real-time streaming data, is available for $89 a month, plus exchange fees. www.spooztoolz.com |
ADVFN Now Available For Macintosh
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ADVFN
Now Available For Macintosh
Apple Macintosh users with OSX 10.3 or above will be able to access ADVFN's tools and features including real-time UK and US stock prices, charting, portfolio, financials, trades, commodities, and foreign exchange. They will also be able to join the site's 400,000-plus investor community on a financial bulletin board in the UK. The new development supports OSX's Safari web browser and Sun Java, so user will be able to take full advantage of the site's streaming charts, monitor, and Level II. www.advfn.com |
DTN Launches ProphetX 2.5, Partners With Hotspot FXi For Currency Data
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DTN
Launches ProphetX 2.5, Partners With Hotspot FXi For Currency Data
DTN announced the latest version of its ProphetX (www.ProphetX.com), a real-time market data tool and analytical workstation targeted to the commodity, energy, and financial futures trading markets. With the introduction of ProphetX 2.5, traders can now access a wider array of market data, news, weather, and analytical tools. ProphetX provides trading professionals with a graphical interface featuring customized charts and analytics. Professionals are able to organize and display data in industry-specific formats. News stories from all major sources are available in a single click. In further news, DTN has joined forces with Hotspot FXi to provide streaming foreign exchange market data to its subscribers. DTN chose Hotspot FXi because its FX market data is live, executable, multibank data. The data will be provided to ProphetX subscribers. Using Hotspot FXi's forex data, ProphetX clients will be able to customize the application to their trading and investing specifications. www.dtn.com
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Hotspot FX Connects To X_TRADER Platform, Passes IPE Conformance
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Hotspot
FX Connects To X_TRADER Platform, Passes IPE Conformance
Trading Technologies International (TT) and Hotspot FX announced that Hotspot FX would provide access to its spot foreign exchange marketplaces via TT's X_Trader order entry platform. The arrangement marks the first cross-market extension of X_Trader into the cash foreign exchange markets. Hotspot FX, the first spot forex marketplace to connect to TT's platform, will connect via TT's high-speed Fix Gateway. All X_Trader users will have the option to trade Hotspot FX products. In other news, TT and the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announced that TT had passed conformance testing with the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), ICE's regulated futures exchange subsidiary. TT is now classified as an approved independent software vendor (ISV). Traders will be able to use X_Trader to execute trades in all electronic futures energy contracts listed on Ipe, as well as all cleared over-the-counter (OTC) energy products listed on Ice. TT is the first Isv to connect to Ice's electronic OTC markets. www.tradingtechnologies.com
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eSignal 7.7 Is Launched
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eSignal
7.7 Is Launched
eSignal announced that eSignal 7.7 was now available. The software includes a news manager, a symbol lookup feature, customizable function keys, an enhanced lender's window and select Latin America exchange data. The three new exchanges offered through eSignal are the Mexico Stock Exchange, the Bolsa de Mercadorias & Futuros (Brazil), and the São Paulo Stock Exchange. This brings the total number of exchanges available from eSignal to more than 110. www.esignal.com |
Dow Jones Makes Changes To Asian, Australian, US Indexes
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Dow
Jones Makes Changes To Asian, Australian, US Indexes
News Corp. announced that its shareholders and option holders approved the company's reincorporation into the US from Australia. This corporate action requires adjustment of these indexes: Dow Jones Australia Titans 30; Dow Jones Asia Titans 50; Dow Jones Asia Titans ex-Japan; Dow Jones Australia Total Market Index, Dow Jones US Total Market Index, and its respective sector indexes; and the Dow Jones Wilshire Indexes. www.djindexes.com |
CMS To offer Real-time DataFeed Through Radianz
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CMS
To offer Real-time DataFeed Through Radianz
CMS WebView (CMS) said that it would make available its TDI datafeed of real-time futures and options data through Radianz's shared market infrastructure. CMS customers taking the TDI feed through the Radianz platform will receive a high-speed supply of real-time data from a range of the world's leading futures exchanges. The Tdi feed is offered in various formats, including financial information exchange (FIX) and the default protocol from individual exchanges. The benefit of the feed is that customers can choose the frequency of data delivery, with options such as real time, delayed, snapshot, or end-of-day on an exchange-by-exchange basis. www.cms.co.uk |
TradeSmart 2.0 Is Released
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2.0 Is Released
TradingScreen has released TradeSmart 2.0, a customizable front-end graphical user interface (GUI) to trade a broad portfolio of financial instruments around the clock on any market with a range of counterparties. www.tradingscreen.com |
NeuralWare Launches NeuralSight
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NeuralWare
Launches NeuralSight
NeuralWare has introduced neural network model development product NeuralSight, which enhances the NeuralWorks Predict platform, enabling researchers and analysts to create neural network models for prediction, classification, and clustering applications. NeuralSight provides a Gui for handling datasets too large for Microsoft Excel, allowing modelers to specify model performance requirements. NeuralSight automatically selects and ranks the best neural networks from a set of networks built by Predict during an unattended model building session. www.neuralware.com |
MGEX Agricultural Index Futures And Options Now On e-CBOT
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Agricultural Index Futures And Options Now On e-CBOT
Five agricultural index futures and options contracts from Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) began trading on the Chicago Board of Trade's electronic trading platform, e-cbot, powered by Liffe Connect. National Corn Index (NCI), National Soybean Index (NSI), Hard Red Winter Wheat Index (HRWI), Soft Red Winter Wheat Index (SRWI), and Hard Red Spring Wheat Index (HRSI) complete the suite of products. www.mgex.com |
Hamzei Analytics Joins With HOTS
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Analytics Joins With HOTS
Hamzei Analytics and Ike Iossif, editor of Hots, announced that they would cooperate in a new outing. The new Hots format will include four option trades along with a description of the rationale behind each trade so subscribers can understand the analysis supporting the recommendations. As a bonus, a hedged trade from Iossif's Long/Short Portfolio will also be provided. These trades will focus on high-beta positions geared toward returns. The newsletter will be published every other Monday evening, with weekly position updates as needed. www.HamzeiAnalytics.com |
TradeStation Reveals New Features For Tradestation 8.1
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TradeStation
Reveals New Features For Tradestation 8.1
TradeStation Group said that some of the newest features and enhancements for TradeStation 8.1 would include market data enhancements, order execution enhancements, strategy trading enhancements, and advanced charting enhancements. The company added that it previewed TradeStation 8 at the TradeStationWorld Conference and Expo in Las Vegas in October 2004. www.TradeStationWorld.com |
ESP, Vie Complete Network Integration
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ESP,
Vie Complete Network Integration
Electronic Specialist (ESP) said that it has completed the integration of its Electronic Algorithm Routing Network (EARN) with Piper Jaffray's Vie Securities' suite of Viper algorithms. EARN provides buy-side institutions with access to more than 30 strategies from many of the world's algorithmic trading providers through one gateway. EARN allows institutions to ensure their anonymity when sending large order blocks or lists to multiple strategy servers. The portal can minimize market impact by allowing clients to spread orders across a number of providers and algorithms. www.piperjaffray.com |