May 2011

TRADERMADE INCLUDES NEWS, STRATEGIES IN MAVERICK

www.tradermade.com

TraderMade has introduced news and commodity technical strategies into its Maverick platform to enable more accurate markets study and analysis. The FX News service, Market News International (Mni), and the existing FX Market Commentary service are delivered directly into the platform via an intraday chronological newslist and ticker. TraderMade will increase the news in the coming months and users will be able to add their own Rss to the platform.

WEBCAST FOR DAYTRADERS

www.DayTradersWebCast.com

DayTradersWebCast launched a daily webcast hosted by Dave Dawson, developer and founder of Market Analytical. The webcast features high-speed, real-time market analysis, and highlights entry and exit points through a variety of trading strategies. The goal is to help daytraders understand rapidly changing market forces. The webcasts are recorded and posted nightly to the website.

IPC OFFERS TRADING COMMUNICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS PLATFORM

www.ipc.com

Ipc Systems has launched Unigy, a unified trading communications and applications platform. Unigy can help trading firms transform their trading workflow, making a firm’s trading teams more productive and their operations more profitable. The platform speeds collaboration between traders and the entire trade support team and has the ability for firms and partners to develop their own applications. Ipc is offering a suite of hard and soft devices for collaboration, a new compact turret, and out-of-the-box Unigy-enabled trader applications built on the new Blue Wave Application Development platform.

LATEST ATOM ALIGN IS LAUNCHED

www.blazeportfolio.com

BlazePortfolio Systems is offering Atom Align 1.3, which introduces several ways to streamline portfolio rebalancing and trading, establishing a straight-through process for model and order management. Global changes are quickly implemented, while ensuring taxable and tax-deferred accounts are assigned the appropriate securities. Seamless integration with Portfolio Center is another feature where users can now access an efficient solution for portfolio rebalancing and trading, complete with integrated account details, tax lot information, security details, and also existing models. Several other enhancements are available for Atom Align 1.3.

CQG CONNECTS TO ASIAN EXCHANGES

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Cqg has completed a software licensing agreement with Hsbc to make Cqg’s advanced trading front ends available to Hsbc’s customers. This addition connects traders to futures in a range of asset classes. Exchange access via Hsbc Futures extends from the Asia-Pacific region to European and North American markets. Through Cqg, Hsbc’s customers and internal trading desks can now route orders to these exchanges using Cqg Trader and Cqg Integrated Client.

In other news, Cqg has connected its hosted exchange gateways to the Osaka Securities Exchange (Ose) J-Gate derivatives trading platform. J-Gate is accessible to Cqg customers worldwide via Cqg Integrated Client or Cqg Trader. Nissan Century will be Cqg’s first Fcm partner using J-Gate to provide clearing services.

Cqg has connected to the Tokyo Commodity Exchange (Tocom), the largest of Japan’s commodity futures exchanges. Cqg’s high-speed connectivity follows their hosted direct market access to the Ose. Tocom is part of its efforts to provide traders with broad coverage of Japanese exchanges. Cqg’s connections gives customers the ability to execute strategies on a range of Japanese markets.

Finally, Cqg announced that Metrixx360 has connected to Cqg’s market data servers and hosted Exchange gateways via Cqg’s data and trading Apis. This expands Cqg’s fixed-income offering and enables Cqg Integrated Client users to quote, chart, and model Metrixx360 information in the existing suite of Cqg functions. Traders can also utilize Cqg’s server-side spreader and new server-side aggregation to increase their liquidity pools.

NEW OPTIMIZATION ENGINE HELPS INVESTORS SALVAGE INVESTMENTS

www.macroaxis.com

Macroaxis has launched a product upgrade with features that make personal investment management easier. Improvements include enhanced portfolio optimization and backtesting, better correlation and volatility introspection, larger position coverage, and more categorized asset allocation options. Users will be able to track portfolio asset allocation by sector, equity type, and market cap, utilize larger historical horizons, verify new optimized portfolios against a backtesting tool, rebalance portfolios manually with immediate optimization and feedback, and originate new portfolios via one screen interface to execute multiple transactions.

COMMISSION-FREE TRADING OF ETFS

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Interactive Brokers is now offering commission-free trading of the first five exchange traded funds launched by Factor Advisors to clients using its award-winning Trader Workstation platform. Commission-free trading currently applies to the first five FactorShares 2x products: S&P500 Bull/TBond Bear, TBond Bull/S&P500 Bear, S&P500 Bull/Usd Bear, Oil Bull/S&P500 Bear, and Gold Bull/S&P500 Bear. Interactive Brokers has agreed to waive the flat-rate and cost-plus brokerage commissions for transactions in FactorShares Etfs and will not impose short-term trading fees.

SMARTPHONE ETF TRADES ON NASDAQ

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A new exchange traded fund (Etf) based on the NasdaqOmx Cea Smartphone Index (Nasdaq: Qfon) has begun trading on Nasdaq under the symbol Fone. The Etf provides a way for investors to take advantage of the positive trends that are shaping the smartphone industry. The NasdaqOmx Cea Smartphone Index was introduced in April 2010 as a benchmark for the telecommunications sector focused on wireless mobile devices with advanced communications functionality.

TRADESTATION, CME GROUP HOST LIVE WEBINAR

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TradeStation and Cme Group said they would cosponsor Futures Outlook, a monthly webinar series providing analysis and discussion of the most actively traded futures markets. Futures Outlook hosts will be Dan Gramza, Nick McDonald, and David Stendahl. The hour-long sessions are designed to feature timely, incisive analysis of the US futures markets.

CLOVERNEST INTRODUCES FREE ONLINE MEETING ROOM

www.clovernest.com

The cornerstone of the Clovernest firm’s efforts to be “the best trader assisted firm in the industry” is Live Market Exercise, a complimentary online meeting room where clients of the firm can watch trader Jay Norris point out trade setups and signals in live markets for three hours a day, four days a week during the London and US trading sessions. The firm also plans on offering one-on-one client evaluations, and free weekly trading workshops for its clients. Clovernest offers discount pricing in both futures and forex along with offering multiple trading platforms including NinjaTrader, MetaTrader, eSignal, and BestDirect8, which has futures and forex on one platform.

SUNGARD’S ASTEC ANALYTICS GETS NEW PORTFOLIO EVALUATION TOOL

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SunGard has increased the coverage of Astec Analytics Lending Pit, its browser-based market access solution for securities finance professionals, with the Lending Pit XL add-in, which gives users access to more than six years of historical daily securities lending market data. The Lending Pit XL helps market participants leverage a larger pool of rebate/fee and loan information volume, giving greater transparency when maximizing securities lending spreads in a market that can feature widely divergent rebate rates and fees.

In other news, SunGard has enhanced its Stream post-trade derivatives solutions. SunGard’s support of Otc products helps provide automated centralized clearing and settlement, which helps Cme Clearing members and market participants increase transparency, mitigate counterparty credit risk, and gain processing efficiencies.

DILLON GAGE UPDATES FIZTRADE TRADING SYSTEM

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Dillon Gage has unveiled the latest version of its FizTrade online-trading system for precious metals. The updated system makes trading easier because users don’t have to keep traveling between pages. Launched in 2006, FizTrade allows banks, jewelers, coin dealers, refiners, and pawn shops to buy and sell gold, silver, platinum, and palladium bars and coins. Customers can see buy and sell prices for particular metals products on a single page. For the sake of ease and convenience, bid prices have been added to spot-price displays.

FXDD LAUNCHES MOBILE TRADING APPS

www.fxdd.com

Fxdd has launched Fxdd iTrader and Fxdd droidTrader, free mobile foreign exchange trading apps for the iPhone and the Android markets. Fxdd customers can now access their Fxdd trading account from virtually anywhere. The new apps work as mobile companions to the MetaTrader 4 forex trading platform. They are both available in English, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian, while iTrader is available in Arabic and droidTrader is available in Turkish. You can log onto your accounts and obtain real-time account information, place new orders, close or modify existing positions, and view your account history. You can also display real-time price feeds for currency pairs and access charting capabilities, calculators and other tools.

THE CBOE IPAD APP NOW AVAILABLE

www.cboe.com/apps/ipad/

The Cboe said that the only comprehensive iPad app developed exclusively for option traders is free and available now at the iTunes store. Featuring detailed quotes and option chains, interactive charts, streaming video from CboeTV, robust educational content is available in the app, including courses and trading strategies, a watchlist, and more.