November 2008 TRADE NEWS
News Releases & Products
FXCM and DailyFX Offer New Forex Trading Signals
Quote.com, RagingBull.com Offer Free Real-Time Quote Data Via BATS Trading
GAIN Capital Provides Liquidity To FlexFX Platform
CQG Offers Economic Release Bullets, Interfax News
Portfolio Calculator Meets New Standards
UOY And DOY Move To NYSE Arca
NASDAQ OMX PHLX Launches Complex Order System For Options
Telvent Acquires DTN
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TRADE NEWS & PRODUCTS
FXCM and DailyFX Offer New Forex Trading Signals
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FXCM and DailyFX.com has released a new version of
their Forex Trading Signals product to FXCM live clients
through the DailyFX+ website. Currency trading signals on DailyFX+ have
been expanded to offer interactive trading alerts that update automatically
in real-time, 24 hours a day. FXCM Trading Signals
track six strategies on 14 currency pairs and have a customizable alerts
section that updates live.
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Quote.com, RagingBull.com Offer Free Real-Time Quote Data Via BATS Trading
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eSignal announced that its portal sites Quote.com and RagingBull.com now
offer NYSE EURONEXT and NASDAQ-listed
stocks, real-time last sale and quote market data from BATS
Trading. The BATS datafeed is provided free.
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GAIN Capital Provides Liquidity To FlexFX Platform
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GAIN Capital Group is now a liquidity provider to
FlexTrade Systems' FlexFX platform, which provides algorithmic
trading capabilities, and has also connected to Traiana's Harmony
prime brokerage network, the company said. This is aimed at institutional
clients such as hedge funds and investment managers and will build on the
relationship established in 2006 with FlexTrade and Traiana.
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CQG Offers Economic Release Bullets, Interfax News
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CQG said that it was now offering Need to Know News
Economic Release Bullets, which is a news datafeed detailing US economic
releases. The data can be visualized in real-time through any of CQG's
quote displays on the CQG data line. CQG
includes historical economic report data for chart analysis and backtesting.
In other news, Interfax Information Services, a source of real-time business news from Europe and Asia, will now be available to users of the CQG platform for global, electronically traded futures markets. CQG's customers will have access to industry-specific news services and in-depth research reports from 70 bureaus covering oil and gas, banking and finance, business andinvestment, energy, commodities, metals and mining, pharmaceuticals and health technologies, food and agriculture, and IT and telecom nes in the emerging Eurasian markets. |
Portfolio Calculator Meets New Standards
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Hamilton Software has released Easy ROR Pro 10, a
portfolio performance calculator for investors, CPAs,
and money managers. Version 10 meets the more stringent global investment
performance standards (GIPS) coming January 1, 2010,
providing all GIPS-required methods for calculating
time-weighted rate of return and composite portfolio performance, and other
GIPS-recommended functions. Portfolio data for any
number of clients can be imported, and benchmark data is automatically
downloaded. There is a free trial.
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UOY And DOY Move To NYSE Arca
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MacroMarkets and the American Stock Exchange (AMEX)
announced that MacroMarkets will transfer the listing of MacroShares $100
Oil Up and MacroShares $100 Oil Down to NYSE Arca.
UOY and DOY are patented securities
designed to transfer assets between the Up and Down trusts as their NYMEX
light sweet crude oil benchmark price moves. The move is the result of
the proposed acquisition of the AMEX by NYSE
Arca and will take place after the close of the acquisition.
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NASDAQ OMX PHLX Launches Complex Order System For Options
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The NASDAQ OMX PHLX
is now operating its Complex Order System, a fully electronic system for
options that automates the process for handling and executing two-sided
complex orders that are priced as a single order. The system supports various
order types including strategies consisting of two options on a single
underlying stock, exchange traded fund, currency, or index.
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Telvent Acquires DTN
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Telvent (TLVT) said it had agreed to acquire
all of US-based business information services provider DTN
Holding Co. The all-cash purchase of DTN is valued
at $445 million, financed through fully funded senior indebtedness and
the issuance of common equity. The transaction is expected to close in
the fourth quarter of 2008, subject to customary regulatory and shareholder
approvals.
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