September 2008 TRADE NEWS
News Releases & Products

PowerShares, DeutscheBank Launch Exchange Traded Notes
ADM Investor Services Acquires Iowa Grain
Amex Launches New Exchange Traded Securities
Service Gives Online Investors Portfolio Protection Power
eSignal Upgrades To V. 10.1
Forex Traders Get Graphical & Statistical Market Snapshot
Software Upgrade Offers Charting Technique
Real-Time Data Available via NinjaTrader
TradingEducation Launches Web Seminar Series
TD AMERITRADE Website Redesigned
Fidelity Platform Enhanced With Tools For Stock Traders
OnTick updates QuoteMachine
Futures Trading Platform launched For iPhone
FXCM Adds Currency Pairs To Platform

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TRADE NEWS & PRODUCTS

PowerShares, DeutscheBank Launch Exchange Traded Notes

   Deutschebank and Invesco PowerShares Capital Management announced they would launch eight exchange traded notes (ETNs) linked to the performance of industrial metals and crude oil. The ETNs will be traded on the NYSA Arca. Each of the eight ETNs are senior unsecured obligations of Deutschebank.

www.invescopowershares.com
www.db.com

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ADM Investor Services Acquires Iowa Grain

   Adm Investor Services (ADMIS) and Iowa Grain (IGC) have reached an agreement in which ADMIS acquired the customer business and technologies of IGC on July 1, 2008. This merging will produce a futures commission merchant with services and access to trading platforms and electronic trading facilities.

www.admis.com
www.iowagrain.com

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Amex Launches New Exchange Traded Securities

  The American Stock Exchange has launched trading in two new exchange traded securities from Macro Markets, MacroShares $100 Oil Up Shares (UOY) and MacroShares $100 Oil Down Shares (DOY). Uoy is designed to track the settlement price of the NYMEX division light sweet crude oil futures contract of the designated maturity, and DOY is designed to track the inverse of the settlement price of the NYMEX division light sweet crude oil futures contract of the designated maturity.

www.amex.com

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Service Gives Online Investors Portfolio Protection Power

  SmartStops.net online service helps investors guard against loss and helps to lock in gains by constantly monitoring portfolios for at-risk stocks. SmartStops.net users receive daily exit price benchmarks, automated exit alerts, and a variety of educational and decision-making resources, the company said.

www.smartstops.net

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eSignal Upgrades To V. 10.1

   eSignal has upgraded to version 10.1. Users of these editions now have a trade manager and order entry platform, and a trading integration feature. Version 10.1 supports 12 online brokers and is designed to increase peak-time volume throughput. eSignal 10.1 offers QLink, and the official exchange Corrections, Insertions and Deletions (CID) is now fully deployed as well.

www.eSignal.com
www.interactivedata.com

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Forex Traders Get Graphical & Statistical Market Snapshot

  Interbank FX has unveiled an addition to the company's free online trading tools. IBFX PowerStats permits traders to learn more about the behavior of a given currency pair and see its average percentage interest point (pip) movement, thus allowing them to set daily goals as well as "stops" and "take profits" on their trades. Free forex practice account is included.

www.IBFX.com

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Software Upgrade Offers Charting Technique

  North Systems has released CandlePower 6 Pro 2. The program features Xray, a new charting technique, which combines a normal candlestick chart with its associated heikin-ashi chart to form a new composite.

www.CandlePower6.com

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Real-Time Data Available Via NinjaTrader

   Barchart.com now has a datafeed partnership with NinjaTrader. The new relationship allows NinjaTrader's trading software users to subscribe to Barchart's real-time datafeeds, sourced directly from futures and equity exchanges. NinjaTrader and Barchart have a web-based process for users to select Barchart as a data source.

www.barchart.com/ninja

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TradingEducation Launches Web Seminar Series

  TradingEducation is now offering on-demand webinars on trading for free. Presented by independent instructors, the website provides traders with more than 15 webinars, with new content being provided regularly.

www.TraderEducation.com

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TD Ameritrade Website Redesigned

  TD Ameritrade has redesigned Amtd.com. The fresh new website lets investors and media quickly navigate to the information they need. New are a streamlined investors section providing shareholders a clear picture of TD Ameritrade's financial performance, and an expanded newsroom. Other new features include an image library, proprietary research, and a subject expert directory, and a monthly highlight that gives reporters story ideas on recent industry trends and research.

www.tdameritrade.com

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Fidelity Platform Enhanced With Tools For Stock Traders

  Fidelity Investments announced three enhancements to its retail brokerage platform to provide traders with new options for monitoring financial markets, executing trades, and researching investment options. The new features are available in Active Trader Pro 8.0, and in Fidelity's backtesting tool, Wealth-Lab Pro 5.1.

www.fidelity.com

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OnTick updates QuoteMachine

  OnTick.com has upgraded the newest version of its QuoteMachine software platform for real-time traders. The latest release includes full support of graphic alarms that can be set on any trendline drawn on linear or log scale and includes support of technical analysis indicators for any tick chart. Improvements have been made to the real-time trading robots, and to the scanning capabilities that allow users to select any condition without using meta-language or scripts.

www.OnTick.com

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Futures Trading Platform Launched For iPhone

  Cunningham Trading Systems has released its new T4 Mobile product for the professional and retail trader. T4 Mobile, which was created for the iPhone, allows access to all the functionality of T4 WebTrader from your iPhone or iPhone3G. Users can monitor positions, add new orders, and revise existing orders from their phone. T4 Mobile gives futures traders access to the world's markets without laptops. Real-time quotes, position updates, account information, and two touch order entry are some functions a trader can access.

www.ctsfutures.com

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FXCM Adds Currency Pairs To Platform

  FXCM has added three new currency pairs with high interest rates and high rollover to the FX Trading Station. The new pairs are euro/Turkish lira, US dollar/Turkish lira, and the US dollar/South African rand. Liquidity in emerging-market currencies is significantly less than G8 currency pairs, often causing large price swings with spreads that can widen to several hundred pips.

www.fxcm.com

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Originally published in the September 2008 issue of Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine. All rights reserved. © Copyright 2008, Technical Analysis, Inc.