September 2005 TRADE NEWS
News Releases & Products
Traders International Offers Online Interactive Emini Trading
TRADE NEWS & PRODUCTS
Traders International Offers Online Interactive Emini Trading
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Traders International offers a live, interactive emini trading room
every day from bell to bell. The room is run by a professional trader,
who openly trades his own account. Participants can log into the trader's
computer to see his chart, listen to verbal explanations of entry and exit
points, and type questions. A three-day live trial is available.
www.TradersInternational.com |
Strategic Forecasting Launches The Global Vantage Service
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 Strategic
Forecasting, Inc. (STRATFOR) introduces a new global intelligence service
customized to meet the specific needs of global investors. The Global Vantage
service focuses on developments in East Asia, the Middle East, Latin America,
the former Soviet Union, and Europe, providing written daily and monthly
updates and phone access to analysts. Contact Jason Deal at (512) 744-4309. |
FM Labs Releases Technical Analysis Programmer's Toolkit
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FM
Labs has released Version 6.0 of The Technical Analysis Programmer's Toolkit,
a library of functions for building charting and trading systems. The Toolkit
contains over 400 functions for data access, financial and option-pricing
calculations, and trading system back-testing and optimization. The new
version also features a rewritten charting module and more than 140 technical
indicators. Version 6.0 adds support for Visual Basic, Net, C#, Delphi,
C/C++ and VB6. The Toolkit is $199, or $399 with source code. Current users
can upgrade for half price. A free demo can be downloaded.
www.fmlabs.com |
FX Concepts Partner with Mcube Investment Technologies
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FX Concepts announced their partnership with MCube Investment Technologies,
led by Dr. Arun Muralidhar, Managing Director at FX Concepts since 2000.
Having focused on developing FX Concept's currency overlay business, Muralidhar
will continue to serve in this capacity, while concurrently acting as Chairman
of MCube and developing its flagship product, AlphaEngine. AlphaEngine
is web-based software that evaluates portfolio decisions and allows investors
to evaluate a broad range of investment strategies.
www.fx-concepts.com
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Equis International Releases MetaStock Pro FX, Announces Partnership with Interbank FX
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Equis
International and Interbank FX announced a partnership with the launch
of the MetaStock Pro FX, a real-time version of MetaStock specifically
created with charting and technical indicators for forex investors. Interbank
FX developed the proprietary execution engine interface incorporated into
MetaStock Pro FX software, allowing MetaStock customers to trade live or
demo accounts from MetaStock Pro FX. Customers have access to live streaming
prices, automated trailing stops, wireless Pda trading, direct Interbank
dealing to world money-center banks, and guaranteed liquidity for up to
$10,000,000 per execution.
www.Interbankfx.com
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GAIN Capital Group Expands, Adds Managers, New York Presence
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Gain Capital Group, a leading non-bank provider of foreign exchange trading
and asset-management services, announced new senior management appointments
and expansion plans to meet sustained growth within the firm's institutional
and retail forex business. Gain Capital Group moved corporate headquarters
to Bedminster, New Jersey and now has an expanded 24-seat trading desk.
The firm announced plans to open a New York City office in the second half
of 2005.
www.forex.com |
eSignal and Hotspot FX Unveil Spot FX Data Availability
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eSignal and Hotspot FX, Inc. announce the availability of Hotspot FX's
foreign exchange data via eSignal's market data and news platforms. Together,
Hotspot FX and eSignal provide 24-hour access to the forex market. Hotspot
FX's banks are fully integrated into the Hotspot FX marketplace, providing
ongoing liquidity and a virtual clearinghouse network.
www.esignal.com
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RealTick Trading Platform Adds Free RSs and Real-Time News Service
For Traders, Investors
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Townsend Analytics now offers a direct Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
feed. The free news service lets subscribers view announcements, pricing
updates, special events, promotions, and press releases, using any Rss
Reader. In addition, users of the RealTick trading platform can access
a new, free newswire service. RealTime Traders (RTT) Basic, supplied by
RealTimeTraders.com, will be included on the RealTick platform at no extra
charge. Rtt Basic delivers breaking news and highlights trading opportunities
from pre-market to after-hours trading.
www.realtick.com
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NEW MetaStock QuoteCenter Data Platform
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Equis International, LLC has entered the real-time data arena with its
MetaStock QuoteCenter data platform, powered by Reuter's data. QuoteCenter
provides analytics, news, and other worldwide financial information to
individual traders. With QuoteCenter, traders can use predefined workspaces
(Equity Trader, Futures Trader, and Forex Trader) or customize personal
workspaces to view the financial information they use most.
www.equis.com |
Bollinger ToolKit Integrated Into Financial Data Calculator
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In his book Bollinger On Bollinger Bands, John Bollinger provides an array
of indicators and three trading systems for investors to arrive at buy
and sell decisions. This new toolkit allows FDC users to integrate the
book's material into FDC's system with special functions for analytical
calculations, pattern searches, FDC macros, trading functions, command
sets, and plot types.
www.BollingerBands.com
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VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis Software Version 6.2
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Market Technologies announces the release of VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis
Software Version 6.2. The new release contains retrained Neural Networks
for the 43 current markets and nine new ones. Performed periodically, retraining
the Neural Networks can enhance the program's predictive accuracy. In addition,
VantagePoint clients can now use the software's nearly 80% predictive accuracy
to trade the six major forex currency pairs and three of the most actively
traded exchange-traded funds.
www.tradertech.com |
NYBOT Announces Launch of Reuters/Jefferies CRB Contract
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The New York Board of Trade began trading the Reuters/Jefferies CRB (RJ/CRB)
Futures Price Index futures contract on July 12, 2005, with options available
in September 2005. The RJ/CRB futures will list four months on a quarterly
cycle, (March, June, September and December), and features a multiplier
of $200 times the index. The current version of the Reuters CRB Index has
been renamed the "Continuous Commodity Index" (CI) and became available
for trading on June 20.
www.nybot.com |
LIFFE Approved To Offer Direct Electronic Access From Singapore
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LIFFE Administration received regulatory approval as a recognized trading
system provider from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The Mas's
decision, which took effect on June 13, 2005, enables Euronext.liffe and
CBOT to introduce a telecom communications hub in Singapore, giving customers
direct connection to Euronext.liffe markets. This new hub will offer
customers direct access to Euronext.liffe's Paris and London-based interest-rate,
equity, and commodity markets.
www.euronext.com
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COESFx And NetPicks Forex Form Partnership
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COESFx, Inc. has formed a strategic partnership with NetPicks Forex, allowing
NetPicks customers to trade on the COESFx Level 1 Trading Platform. With
NetPicks Forex on COESFx, traderss will be able to work with live executable
prices. The combination of the COESFx electronic network and the NetPicks
Autotrade Program enables automatic execution of the NetPicks strategy
on behalf of the subscriber. COESFx, network participants may try NetPicks
Forex for a free, three-week trial of their Forex Trading Systems.
www.NetPicksforex.com
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AAPTA To Hold "Brainstorming Session," September 16-18
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The American Association of Professional Technical Analysts (AAPTA) is
holding a "Brainstorming Session," September 16-18, 2005, at the Chicago
O'Hare Hilton. This is an opportunity for members, who are professional
technical analysts, to exchange ideas and provide input about works in
progress and recently developed technical analysis techniques. Scheduled
events include a tour of the CME on Friday and a dinner out on Saturday.
www.aapta.us |
Interactive Brokers Launches New Interactive Analytics
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Interactive Brokers, LLC (IB) introduces Interactive Analytics (IA), a
set of mathematical risk-assessment tools to help investors and fund managers
better manage diversified portfolios. IA is available to IB customers
and includes three modules: Portfolio Analytics, Option Modeler, and Options
Analytics. Each module provides the traditional Greek risk measures.
www.interactivebrokers.com |
New Commodity Indexes from DJ Indexes And AIG Financial
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Dow Jones Indexes and AIG Financial Products Corp. announce the creation
of five new commodity indexes and sub-indexes. Two are sub-indexes of the
Dow Jones-Aig Commodity Index (DJ-AIGCI), two are Euro and Yen-denominated
versions of the existing DJ-AIGCI, and the fifth is a spot price version
of the DJ-AIGCI. The new indices join the two indexes and seven sub-indexes
already calculated daily by Dow Jones and Aig Financial Products Corp.
www.dowjones.com
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