November 2005 TRADE NEWS
News Releases & Products
Spread Trade Price Improvement
TRADE NEWS & PRODUCTS
Spread Trade Price Improvement
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 OptionsXpress
said it now offers opportunities for price improvement on spread trades
through the new Direct Quotes feature of the Xspreads order book. Xspreads
Direct Quotes leverages optionsXpress technology platform to request quotes
specific to spreads.
www.optionsxpress.com/optionsXpress |
Distribution Agreement expanded
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eSignal
and
Dow Jones Newswires have expanded their distribution agreement,
which increases the Dow Jones news and information solutions available
on eSignal's streaming, real-time financial market data and tools, including
eSignal, QuoTrek, MarketCenter Live, and FutureSource workstations.
www.esignal.com |
TotalView Access for RealTick
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Townsend
Analytics said it was upgrading its RealTick trading platform to include
Nasdaq's TotalView market data product. TotalView provides market transparency
by showing the depth of market at all price levels.
www.realtick.com |
TradingMarkets.com Relaunch
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The relaunch of TradingMarkets.com, with more than 30,000 pages,
features expanded news coverage and breaking news alerts. Traders can stay
up to date on all market news, even after the close, and much of the site
is now free.
In other news, every blogger at the TradingMarkets Trader Blogs is either a full or part-time trader, and each offers insights into trading, from specific stocks they are trading to the mental game of trading, the site announced. Currently, bloggers cover various trading vehicles, such as stocks, options, eminis, and forex as well as the economy. www.tradingmarkets.com |
NYBOT Announces Coffee Action
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In accordance with Rule 8.15, the New York Board of Trade declared
a force majeure situation exists in the Port of New Orleans due
to Hurricane Katrina, and coffee deliveries pursuant to delivery notices
previously issued shall not be made until such date as the board may determine
and effective August 30, no further delivery notices may be issued for
coffee to be delivered in the port until the conditions of the warehouses
and the coffee there can be determined.
www.nybot.com |
MetaQuotes Mobile Device
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MetaQuotes
Software
has released its MetaTrader 4 Mobile for Pocket PC, a new client terminal
for mobile devices of MetaQuotes. Mobile trading is managing of the trading
account with the help of personal digital assistants (PDAs).
www.metaquotes.net |
Product for DayTraders
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Lunchtimetrading.com
has unveiled its Hot Stock Alerts for daytraders, the site said. Hot Stock
Alerts are emailed to subscribers just before the opening of the NASDAQ.
Lunchtimetrading.com uses proprietary software to detect hot stocks for
the preopening hours.
www.lunchtimetrading.com/trading |
Trading Tech Opens Tokyo Office
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Trading
Technologies Int'l (TT) has opened a sales and support office in Tokyo.
The operation now serves as TT's Asia/Pacific headquarters and becomes
the company's second office in the region.
www.tradingtechnologies.com |
Options Seminar in Boca Raton, Oct 28-29, Atlanta, Nov 11-12
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Options experts Larry McMillan and Al Brinkman as well as David
S. Nassar announced they would impart their time-tested successful
option strategies and applications to grasp the fundamental and complex
aspects of options trading. The seminar will be held in Boca Raton on October
28-29 and in Atlanta on November 11-12. For details, see the Options Strategist
website.
www.optionstrategist.com |
DJTA Component Change
| Dow
Jones announced component changes in the Dow Jones Transportation Average,
with the deletion of Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines. Delta and
Northwest were removed because they filed for protection under bankruptcy
laws. The two stocks were also deleted from the Dow Jones US Total Market
Index but not replaced.
www.djindexes.com |