February 2012

TRADE IDEAS OFFERS ALERTS FOR NASDAQ

www.trade-ideas.com

Trade Ideas announced that NASDAQ market velocity and forces had been integrated into its market scanning platform, giving end users the ability to measure levels of pretrade order activity. Trade Ideas users can get trade ideas that gauge buy and sell interest in specific issues and compare order activity with the current activity before the actual trade occurs.

TRADESTATION LAUNCHES OPTION TRADING PLATFORM, MORE

www.TradeStation.com


TS Strategy

TradeStation has launched an option trading platform to coincide with the release of TradeStation 9.1, the latest version of its trading platform. OptionStation Pro’s key features include advanced option charting with interactive three-dimensional position graphs, advanced order-entry technology to trade options spread strategies with a few clicks, configurable spread-specific options chain views, dynamic options pricing, and greek calculations.

In other news, TradeStation Strategy Network Beta website introduces a marketplace of trading software strategies, trading indicators, and other trading idea-generation tools created by independent software developers. The site offers more than 800 trading tools that TradeStation brokerage customers can incorporate in trading strategies.

VT TRADER NOW WITH ONLINE FX TRADING PLATFORM

www.vtsystems.com

Visual Trading Systems (VT Systems) said it had released its VT Trader client as part of its VTSpot trading platform. VTSpot is a turnkey online trading technology solution for financial institutions operating in the spot retail forex and CFD markets. VTSpot clients will be able to connect to multiple liquidity providers, exert control over every aspect of the system’s business rules and trade execution, perform back-office accounting, auditing, and reporting tasks, monitor margin usage, operate a fully functional manually staffed and/or automated dealing desk, and more.

ZANER ANNOUNCES UPGRADED MARKETHEAD.COM

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Zaner Group has updated and revamped Markethead.com, a tool for futures and forex traders that provides charts, quotes, news, research, commentary and more. Markethead has fully customizable charts with more than 40 different indicators and time frames, morning newsletters, market commentary, trading ideas, quote screens for futures and options and access to the CME’s real-time DataSuite. The website is free to Zaner clients and offered on a paid-subscription basis to the public.

BOLLINGER ADDS WEB-BASED PROGRAMMING, MORE

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EquityTrader.com

BBForex and EquityTrader Pro added web-based programming so users can customize their chart analytics. Using BBScript, a cloud-based, web-based programming package, indicators can be plotted on interactive and customizable charts. Users can access any scripts/indicators they have created and saved from anywhere through their browser using the BBScript interface.

CQG EXPANDS NETWORK TO CHINA, MORE NEWS

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continuumtradingsolutions


zlantrader.com

CQG has established an infrastructure for trade routing and market data delivery in Asia-Pacific by connecting its global network to Shanghai, including coverage of Japanese derivatives exchanges. This allows traders to access more than 40 global exchanges for order routing as well as market data from more than 100 sources worldwide.

In other news, Continuum, a division of CQG, and Zlantrader have partnered to power Zlantrader’s trading application with Continuum Connect, Continuum’s API solution for market data delivery and trade execution. This links Zlantrader customers to more than 50 of Continuum’s FCM partners and over 40 exchanges worldwide for order routing. Zlantrader offers multiple order entry interfaces, quote display functionality, and account management tools.

PATSYSTEMS, STRAITS FINANCIAL JOIN FORCES

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straitsfinancial.com

Patsystems XConnect announced that it had partnered with Straits Financial to facilitate its global exchange-traded derivatives business. Patsystems XConnect and customers of Straits Financial will have access to several leading futures exchanges, including CME Group (CBOT, NYMEX, and COMEX), ICE, SGX, HKEx, TOCOM, and LME. Customers can access these markets from anywhere in the world using Patsystems’ API or Pro-Mark, or J-Trader, which includes integrated charting and news from Market-Q. Straits will be able to monitor and control its clients’ trading activity using Patsystems’ comprehensive pretrade risk management system.

LME GOES LIVE WITH NEW TRADING PLATFORM

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cinnober.com

The London Metal Exchange (LME) has gone live with a new version of the LMESelect 7 trading platform, jointly developed with service delivery partner Xchanging and technology provider Cinnober Financial. The upgrade brings configurable new order types that introduces a new FIX-based solution for market data that satisfies higher performance requirements, reduces costs, and uses a standardized protocol.