January 2007 TRADE NEWS
News Releases & Products


Online Investing Community, Data Service is Launched
ADVFN Launches Free Pink Sheets Stock Market Data
Interactive Brokers Introduces Penny-Priced Options
Isolate Stocks Beginning Bullish or Bearish Trend
Professional Market Scanning Service is Free
CQG Expands NYMEX Trading
THOM Hartle's BLOG & FLOW
 

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TRADE NEWS & PRODUCTS



Online Investing Community, Data Service is Launched

  ICLUBcentral has launched StockCentral, a new online community dedicated to investor education, discussion, data, and analysis. Membership provides users with features designed to help them succeed in the stock market. Members can discuss individual stocks and investing techniques in the ticker-based community forums, upload analyses, and download studies from fellow members. Tech support will also be conducting educational webinars and workshops. StockCentral also offers a high-quality financial datafeed.

www.stockcentral.com

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ADVFN Launches Free Pink Sheets Stock Market Data

  Advfn is providing more financial information on its retail investor website. Pink Sheets, the US electronic quotation service that gathers and publishes market makers' bid and ask quotation prices for the over-the-counter securities markets, is free on Advfn alongside existing market data including foreign exchange, commodities, futures, and options; and prices from countless global exchanges. Pink Sheets users can request quotes on stocks and view full Level 1 data including bid, ask, highs, lows, and current prices along with traded volumes. Retail investors can also access news, financials and intraday and historical charts for Pink Sheets stocks and add these securities to watch lists and portfolios alongside their other investments.

www.advfn.com

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Interactive Brokers Introduces Penny-Priced Options

  Interactive Brokers has cut the minimum price tick it accepts on orders for US listed options from a nickel to a penny ($5/contract to $1/contract). The Securities and Exchange Commission mandated a penny pilot program beginning on January 27, 2007, in which the six US options exchanges will have to reduce the minimum price change from five cents to a penny for options listed on 13 underlying stocks. In a first for the US options industry, Interactive Brokers made order entry in pennies available on all option orders as of October 24, 2006.

www.interactivebrokers.com

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 Isolate Stocks Beginning Bullish or Bearish Trend

  Alpha Advisor Service said it helps traders compare and select stocks based on momentum and price movement, determining the trend. The company's analytic utilizes a weighted alpha factor adjusted for price persistence and volatility using proprietary formulas and software, it added. Compound trading rules take into consideration short-term trend analysis. Alpha Advisor Service has a 30-day free trial, the company said.

www.alpha-advisor.com/promo.htm

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Professional Market Scanning Service is Free

  Genesis Securities said it had acquired ScanTheMarket.com, a market scanning technology. Previously, Genesis in July 2006 launched SogoInvest.com, which offers trades at a commission of $1 per trade and offers free trading tools to the professional investor. ScanTheMarket.com is now free to SogoInvest customers with funded accounts. ScanTheMarket.com offers stock traders the ability to identify profit opportunities before the majority of others do and then have an option to trade the stocks via Genesis Securities.

www.scanthemarket.com

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CQG Expands NYMEX Trading

  Cqg said it now offers Nymex's full range of products, providing traders the opportunity to trade electronic energy contracts on Cme Globex. Using Cqg, traders can route orders to Nymex for crude oil, heating oil, unleaded gasoline, Rbob gasoline, natural gas, propane, platinum, and palladium. Cqg also provides trading for full-sized, financially settled energy futures, miNY contracts, and intercommodity spreads.

www.cqg.com

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THOM Hartle's BLOG & FLOW

  Thom Hartle, former Stocks & Commodities editor and now Cqg director of marketing, is publishing his own daily blog called “Hartle & Flow.” Each day he writes about the equity markets using analytical tools including Cqg's TradeFlow for electronically traded futures contracts.

www.hartleandflow.com

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Originally published in the January 2007 issue of Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine.
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