TRADE NEWS — News Releases & Products
February 2011
- CQG ADDS US TREASURY TRADING ACCESS THROUGH GOVEX
- NINJATRADER 7.0 IS RELEASED WITH NEW CHARTING FEATURES, PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS
- ALPHACET MOVES INTO ASIAN MARKETS WITH SHIDAN CAPITAL
- TRADERSHELPDESK OFFERS THD PLATINUM PACKAGE
- GLOBALTRADE.NET LAUNCHES DATABASE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE SERVICE PROVIDERS
- VELOCITYSHARES LAUNCHES VOLATILITY-RELATED NOTES LINKED TO S&P 500 VIX
- SAM AND DOW JONES INDEXES LAUNCH DJSI NORDIC INDEX
- TRADING SOFTWARE PROVIDES 15 YEARS OF TRADING EXPERIENCE
- RJ O’BRIEN IS SELECTED FOR MANAGED FUTURES PLATFORM
- HENRY PRUDEN HONORED WITH LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
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CQG ADDS US TREASURY TRADING ACCESS THROUGH GOVEX
Cqg announced that it was now the trading platform for GovEx, a matching platform offered by Currenex, a subsidiary of State Street Corp. GovEx offers traders a trading platform for US Treasury securities providing anonymity, liquidity, and a matching environment for the fixed-income markets. Offering connectivity to the GovEx trading platform in combination with Cqg’s server-side order management enables US Treasury traders to execute complex trading strategies with a greater chance of success due to the additional access to the GovEx liquidity pool. Cqg connects to all of the publicly traded liquidity avenues for US Treasury cash products, offering traders an edge due to the increased level of accessible liquidity.
NINJATRADER 7.0 IS RELEASED WITH NEW CHARTING FEATURES, PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS
NinjaTrader just released the seventh major update of its NinjaTrader trading platform. This release enhances virtually every aspect of the trading platform and increases system performance. NinjaTrader 7 is free to use for advanced charting, market analytics, system development, and trade simulation providing a comprehensive end-to-end trading solution for stock, futures, and forex traders. There are more than 300 enhancements, including improved system performance, expanded charting features, a new Kinetick Market Data Service, an enhanced NinjaScript Development Environment, strategy backtesting functionality, and a new Hot Key Manager.
ALPHACET MOVES INTO ASIAN MARKETS WITH SHIDAN CAPITAL
Alphacet, Inc., announced that Shidan Capital, a Singapore-based hedge fund, has selected Alphacet Discovery to build, backtest, and deploy quantitative financial models. Shidan said it had selected Discovery for its ease of use and ability to handle data from all asset classes, including equity index futures and foreign exchange and were drawn to Discovery’s drag-and-drop interface and trade visualization features.
TRADERSHELPDESK OFFERS THD PLATINUM PACKAGE
The Thd Platinum package is now available, TradersHelpDesk said. The package comes with the three-day “Master the Trade” seminar, multiple quizzes to reinforce the learning process, an electronic journal, the Thd Pro 4 indicator package, and a weekly two-hour refresher course. The system utilizes their new Adx and Rsi technology, as well as built-in risk-to-reward ratio for setting profits and stops. The Thd Pro 4 indicator package is available for the TradeStation and NinjaTrader platforms.
GLOBALTRADE.NET LAUNCHES DATABASE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE SERVICE PROVIDERS
Fita Online has announced it would launch a global database of international trade service providers on its new website, GlobalTrade.net. The product is regarded as a much needed and anticipated online service to the worldwide trade community.
VELOCITYSHARES LAUNCHES VOLATILITY-RELATED NOTES LINKED TO S&P 500 VIX
VelocityShares announced six volatility-related exchange traded notes (Etns) would be listed on Nyse Arca. VelocityShares Etns include the first daily inverse and twice leveraged Etns linked to the S&P 500 Vix Futures Index. The Etns will provide institutional traders with an exchange traded instrument enabling them to manage equity market volatility risks.
SAM AND DOW JONES INDEXES LAUNCH DJSI NORDIC INDEX
Sam and Dow Jones Indexes announced the Dow Jones Sustainability Nordic Index (Djsi Nordic), which provides market participants with an independent sustainability benchmark for Nordic equities. The Djsi Nordic includes 29 sustainability leaders from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden and is calculated in Eur and Usd. The Djsi Nordic components are selected and weighted based on Sam’s systematic corporate sustainability assessment. The assessment looks at Nordic corporations in terms of general as well as industry-specific criteria such as energy use, corporate governance, climate change strategy, human resources development, stakeholder relations and knowledge management.
TRADING SOFTWARE PROVIDES 15 YEARS OF TRADING EXPERIENCE
DayTradingZones.com launches the Probability Trading Tool, a versatile daytrading system that answers key fundamental trading questions — where are the major supports and resistances, what is the larger trend, what is the immediate trend, where are the higher probability entries, targets and stop-losses.
RJ O’BRIEN IS SELECTED FOR MANAGED FUTURES PLATFORM
Ics Traders has selected RJ O’Brien as the trade execution and clearing firm for the managed futures investment platform it launched in 2010. The new offering helps investment advisors and investors create managed futures portfolios to fit within their risk tolerance and investment goals with virtually zero correlation to traditional asset classes.
HENRY PRUDEN HONORED WITH LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
A recognized global expert in the field of technical analysis, Hank Pruden, professor of business administration at the Ageno School of Business at Golden Gate University, was honored with the Michael Epstein lifetime achievement award from the Market Technicians Association Education Foundation. The award is presented to practitioners who have demonstrated a long-term commitment to technical analysis in academia and in practice.