TRADE NEWS And Products - February 2008

Trade News & Products

February 2008
Interbank FX is Honored By British Magazine
StockWiz 5 Now Available
Mathematica 6's Reach Extends
eSignal Unveils Enhanced Financial Portal Site
Alyuda Research Releases Interdependent Market Analysis
FX Solutions Introduces GTS Pro
Fidelity Enables Backtest Trading Strategies
GFT Expands Its Service To Futures Traders
Trading Technologies Launches Access To Climate Futures Exchange
FXCM Integrates Into Trading Platform, Splits From Refco
Barchart Provides Website Services, Launches NewsFeeds
Stock USA Financial Adds Electronic Trading
Stock Trading Tool Challenge To Beat Buy & Hold
Time-Saving Forex Trading Methods Is Announced
Newest Vantage Point Is Launched
Website Awards Real Money To Fantasy Investors
Numeral Technology Offers New Point & Figure Software
MB Trading Launches MBT Navigator 11
Powershares Lists First Buy-Write ETF Portfolios Covering Major US Market Indexes

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Interbank FX is Honored By British Magazine

Interbank FX has been named best foreign exchange broker at Shares magazine's 2007 Shares Awards. Readers of British-based Shares nominated their favorite providers in a variety of areas.
www.interbankfx.com
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StockWiz 5 Now Available

   StockWiz 5 (SW5) is now shipping, the company announced. This version, which is almost a complete rewrite, incorporates users' suggestions. SW5 is designed to separate the noise from the substance and gives answers to a number of common stock market questions. The software can answer stock-market queries because it stores historical end-of-day stock quotes for more than 12,000 US publicly traded stocks on Windows personal computers and allows the user to define his or her queries via a smart formula language, the company added.
www.StockWiz.com
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Mathematica 6's Reach Extends

Mathematica 6 has opened the door to breakthroughs in technical computing. A newly updated suite of add-ons for many specific fields are available to do specialized tasks. Wolfram Research has teamed with third-party developers to build solutions for a variety of fields, the company said, adding that these packages allow people to tap into the power of Mathematica without having to develop complex task-oriented code of their own.
www.wolfram.com
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eSignal Unveils Enhanced Financial Portal Site

   eSignal announced the launch of financial portal site Quote.com 2.0. Quote.com 2.0's newly created interactive stock charts feature has timeline tracking, integrated chart studies, news and export features. In addition, there is an updated portfolio manager feature and a new personal finance section. Quote.com 2.0 also offers one-click access to individual stock and market index information, the company added.
www.eSignal.com
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Alyuda Research Releases Interdependent Market Analysis

Alyuda Research has launched AmpleSight Trader, the company said. With AmpleSight, traders can analyze interdependencies on financial markets and react to even small market movements. Key features of this version include the integration of eSignal and IQfeed datafeeds, Market Beacons and Indicator Strips to signal every market movement, customizable watchlists, custom indexes, trade order visualization, and more.
www.alyuda.com
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FX Solutions Introduces GTS Pro

   FX Solutions said it was now offering forex traders Gts Pro, which provides a range of tools and functionality, including an improved forex calculator, a one-click trading, 10 premade trading screen layouts, customizable "workspaces," a price alarm and many other features.
www.fxsol.com
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Fidelity Enables Backtest Trading Strategies

Fidelity Investments announced plans to help all investors backtest their trading strategies online at no cost. In early 2008, both customers and noncustomers who visit Fidelity.com will be able to learn about commonly employed trading strategies and test those strategies against historical data. The results of this backtesting can help investors make more informed investment decisions on when to buy, hold, or sell stock. Fidelity also announced that customers who are eligible will be able to gain access to Wealth-Lab Pro 5.0 to learn about trading strategies and then use historical data to backtest the past performance of those strategies, using any stock of their choice.
www.fidelity.com
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GFT Expands Its Service To Futures Traders

GFT said that its product line now included global futures market trading. GFT Futures offers trading on more than 100 global futures products from electronic and open outcry markets in 11 exchanges, the company added. Traders are able to trade all global futures markets offered by GFT electronically from its DealBook 360 desktop trading software platform.
www.gftforex.com
www.gftfutures.com
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Trading Technologies Launches Access To Climate Futures Exchange

Trading Technologies (TT) and Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE) announced that TT had connected its X_Trader 7 order-entry platform to CCFE. CCFE offers standardized and cleared futures and options contracts on emission allowances and other environmental products. TT also connects to the European Climate Exchange (ECX).
www.chicagoclimatex.com
www.tradingtechnologies.com
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FXCM Integrates Into Trading Platform, Splits From Refco

FXCM has revamped the Marketscope charting package integrated into Fxcm's trading platform, FX Trading Station, the company said. Doing so will eliminate the need to toggle between the charts and the rest of the trading station when placing orders or trades. In addition, the user can also try FXCM's new charting features and open a free $50,000 demo account.
In other news, FXCM announced that the Refco estate had agreed to sell its 35% ownership interest in FXCM to Long Ridge Equity Partners and Lehman Brothers. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. FXCM will no longer have any financial connection or business relationship with the Refco estate.
www.fxcm.com
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Barchart Provides Website Services, Launches NewsFeeds

Barchart.com said it had launched a division that will provide a full suite of agricultural information and technology services, market data and information, and real-time quotes for agricultural industry firms and websites operated by local cash markets, co-ops and other agricultural businesses.
In addition, Barchart.com announced the launch of CRB News and Inside Futures.com News, two new services that feature real-time market news, commentary and analysis. The name CRB News comes from Commodity Research Bureau, which is owned by Barchart. InsideFutures.com is a Barchart-owned futures market commentary and analysis-focused web-portal. CRB News will feature a real-time newswire service containing commodity market news, while the InsideFutures.com News feed is a consolidated feed of market commentary and analysis from industry leading analysts covering futures markets.
www.barchart.com
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Stock USA Financial Adds Electronic Trading

Stock USA Investments said it had added electronic trading capabilities to enable clients to trade US and Canadian equities from one platform. The company also said it planned to add electronic European trading capabilities in 2008.
www.SpeedTrader.com
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Stock Trading Tool Challenge To Beat Buy & Hold

4th Systems has launched StockReflex, a training tool that lets users sharpen their trading skills by zooming through years of actual historical stock charts. With $100,000 of virtual money, users make buy and sell decisions based on chart patterns and get an instant read on how these trades would have played out. Moving averages, trendlines, and alerts help users analyze patterns and test strategies without risking real money.
www.stockreflex.net
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Time-Saving Forex Trading Methods Is Announced

Profits Run and Brewer FX announced that they have released four time-saving forex trading methods designed to allow individuals the potential to spot trade opportunities in minutes. These methods are known as the Forex Profit Accelerator and are now available for Brewer FX's clients on the Brewer trading platforms.
www.brewerfx.com
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Newest Vantage Point Is Launched

Market Technologies has released VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis Trading Software version 7.1, which now includes new markets and features designed to improve the user experience. The software has added over 400 new markets. New futures and ETF markets have also been added to increase diversity and provide customers with the markets in which they have an interest.
www.TraderTech.com
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Website Awards Real Money To Fantasy Investors

TheUpDown, a virtual investing website that combines a social networking aspect, with the competitiveness of fantasy sports, is a free site where anyone can join, create a profile, and start building and managing their own virtual portfolio using $1 million in a real-life trading environment, the developed announced. The top users are awarded real money derived from their on-site analyses and portfolio performance versus the Standard & Poor's 500. TheUpDown reported that more than 50% of active traders have earned real money, with some over $1,000.
www.theupdown.com
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Numeral Technology Offers New Point & Figure Software

Numeral Technology has released Point & Figure Charts software, targeted at individual investor and stock traders. It has the most popular technical analysis indicators -- point & figure charts, candlestick, kagi, three-line break, Macd, stochastic oscillator, and varieties of moving averages.
www.numeraltechnology.com
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MB Trading Launches MBT Navigator 11

MB Trading announced a major upgrade to its MBT Navigator Platform. The new version includes upgraded basket trading and advanced order control features via the Market Depth screen. Included are features such as the new Managed Account Trading (MAT) tool and a new Java-based charting platform.
www.mbtrading.com
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Powershares Lists First Buy-Write ETF Portfolios Covering Major US Market Indexes

PowerShares Capital Management announced the listing of three buy-write portfolios covering the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Standard & Poor's 500, and NASDAQ 100 market indexes. These new portfolios will provide investors with continuous access to a buy-write, or covered call, investment strategy on these market indexes.
www.powershares.com
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Originally published in the February 2008 issue of Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine. All rights reserved. © Copyright 2008, Technical Analysis, Inc.