May 2008 TRADE NEWS
News Releases & Products
Nirvana
Systems Releases VisualTrader 4.0
TradeStation Releases Live Simulated Trading
NASDAQ Unveils Market Activity Replay
Barchart Reveals New Real-Time Market Data Application
CQG
connects Co-Located Liffe Exchange Gateways
Trading Technologies Adds New Universities
TradingEducation.com Syndicates Content
New
Portal Set For Alternative Markets
FXCM
Receives Award
BSG
Traders Releases Market Timing System
New Website For Market Timers
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TRADE NEWS & PRODUCTS
Nirvana Systems Releases VisualTrader 4.0
 VisualTrader 4.0 trading software from Nirvana Systems is now available.
It introduces user-defined transforms that convert derivative financial
information into three-dimensional shapes, rendering of indicators and
formulas across more than 500 securities, direct brokerage connection,
automatic stops management, support for futures and forex instruments,
and a trading simulator, allowing a "rewinding" the market and simulating
trading in either a real-time or accelerated view.
www.visualtrader.com |
TradeStation Releases Live Simulated Trading
| TradeStation Securities said it had released enhancements to its trading
platform, including the introduction of TradeStation Simulator, which will
enable clients to paper-trade in real-time stock, options, futures, and
forex markets. With TradeStation Simulator, clients will now be able to
automate or manually execute, on a simulated basis, their custom strategies
in real-time trading of those markets. This release offers several other
features and changes.
www.TradeStation.com |
NASDAQ Unveils Market Activity Replay
| NASDAQ
has launched NASDAQ Market Replay, a data tool that provides a NASDAQ-validated
replay and analysis of the market. Market Replay allows users to view the
order book, replay the market in simulated real time or at an accelerated/decelerated
speed, and zoom in to view events at the millisecond level to see exactly
what happened. It can be used by all market participants including retail
investors.
In other news, NASDAQ said it had completed its combination with OMX AB, creating the world's largest exchange company, NASDAQ OMX Group. As part of the transaction, Nasdaq OMX also became a 33 1/3% shareholder in DIFX, Dubai's international financial exchange. Borse Dubai is a 19.9% shareholder of NASDAQ OMX. www.nasdaq.com |
Barchart Reveals New Real-Time Market Data Application
| Barchart.com has launched a new real-time market data web-based application.
WebStation provides users with real-time quotes, charts, news, and analysis.
It offers futures, equity, and foreign exchange market participants a web-based
platform and market data front-end.
In other news, Barchart.com is offering a European markets--focused electronic newsletter produced on behalf of the Eurex. "Eurex-European Market Outlook" is a weekly e-newsletter. www.barchartinc.com |
CQG Connects Co-Located LIFFE Exchange Gateways
| CQG said it had connected its hosted order routing gateways to the LIFFE
Connect trading system via NYSE Euronext. CQG also acquired space and exchange
gateways in LIFFE's co-location facility, enabling them to offer hosted
high-speed, close-proximity exchange access to their partner firms.
www.cqg.com |
Trading Technologies Adds New Universities
| Trading Technologies (TT) said 12 schools had joined TT's University Relations
Program. The program donates its X_Trader derivatives trading software
to universities and colleges for use in classrooms and laboratories. The
schools have access to X_Trader components to learn and apply textbook
theories in a simulated trading environment. TT connects to 20-plus global
exchanges in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia/Pacific
region, which allows students to work with a variety of markets and asset
classes.
www.TradingTechnologies.com |
TradingEducation.com Syndicates Content
| TradingEducation.com is making RSS/XML feeds available for commercial use
featuring market commentaries from its panel of renowned market analysts.
The content features analysis by editor-in-chief Darrell Jobman and Jim
Wyckoff, a contributor to a variety of financial industry publications.
www.TradingEducation.com |
New Portal Set For Alternative Markets
| Zealous Trading Group has agreed to create the Flashpoint
portal with Global Access Holdings to provide research and market data
tools. Flashpoint will provide members with a format in which to view research
and analysis of securities listed for the primary issuance and secondary
trading on the Zats platform, including real-time Pipe data.
www.zealousATS.com |
FXCM receives award
| FXCM has been recognized by Financial Bridges magazine. The
award is based on a survey of financial researchers and Financial Bridges
subscribers.
www.fxcm.com |
BSG Traders Releases Market Timing System
| BSG Traders has announced the release of The Wizard, an investment
decision and market timing system. The Wizard is based on the BSG algorithm
that finds support and resistance. It provides exact entry and exit signals
for all markets: stocks, ETFs, futures, and forex, identifies market trends
with a proprietary trend indicator and selects strategies from a scanning
tool. The system is a web-based system that requires no other datafeed
and comes with a demo that is a copy of the full system.
www.thewizard.com |
New Website For Market Timers
| John Bollinger has introduced a new website for investing in the current
markets. MarketTechnician.com provides professional tools for timing the
stock market. The website provides historical price series with tools and
techniques to analyze them, with some data going back to 1928. (See page
64 for a product review.)
www.markettechnician.com |
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