TRADE NEWS & PRODUCTS
Open trading technology provider UNX welcomes commodities and derivatives technology and data firm CQG as the latest provider to join the Catalyst Marketplace, UNX’s open-source software store, CQG announced. The CQG application delivers global market data as well as the CQG Trader execution interface for commodities and derivatives through a simple download from the Marketplace. The CQG Trader application provides customers with a high-performance market data and electronic trading platform. Traders can view market activity, place orders, and track orders and positions.
In other news, CQG announced it had colocated its exchange gateway servers at CME Group’s new data center to provide low-latency order routing and market data connectivity to the CME Globex platform. CQG will maintain its original CME Globex connectivity in parallel to ensure for customers’ backup.
Finally, CQG said that Scaled Dynamics had joined CQG’s certified API partner program. Scaled Dynamics’ GateKeeper will offer a full suite of automated trading tools utilizing CQG’s market data and order entry. Consultants are also available to build custom-tailored solutions for individual execution or risk management needs.
Additional information: www.cqg.com, web.unx.com
TradingView, the social media offshoot of trading software company MultiCharts, said that it is offering its proprietary charts to be used on news sites, forums, blogs, and mobile platforms for free. Users can apply indicators and comment on their own and other people’s charts, offering their take on market movements or engage in group debates with other investors. TradingView supplies free stock and index charts using data from the BATS exchange plus forex, with stock fundamental data.
Additional information: www.tradingview.com
KAPITALL has introduced Kapitall Generation, its affiliated brokerage platform that allows users to upgrade their trading experience to live trading of stocks and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Traders can use Kapitall’s practice portfolios to improve their skills and test-drive their ideas without risk. They also get market insights delivered daily along with tools that make it easy to find, analyze and choose stocks, plus free real-time quotes and alerts on the stocks they’re interested in.
Additional information: www.KAPITALL.com
Chaikin Stock Research has launched an Android app for smart phones. The Chaikin Power Tools app can be downloaded from the Android Marketplace. It has much of the functionality of the Chaikin Power Tools iPhone app, which currently has 17,000-plus users analyzing and trading stocks from their iPhones. The centerpiece of both apps is the Chaikin Power Gauge Rating, a 20-factor model that analyzes financial information about a stock and presents it in a green or red display so investors can identify the winners.
Chaikin Stock Research now has available unlimited Chaikin Power Gauge Reports through a monthly subscription of $9.95; there is also a 30-day free trial. Chaikin’s stock research reports provide the decision-making tools needed to identify opportunities, avoid loss and make buy & sell decisions.
Additional information: www.chaikinpowertools.com
Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) announced that FlexTrade Systems had become an approved independent software vendor. FlexTrade’s derivatives trading solutions available to DGCX members include FlexOPT, FlexOPT-RM, FlexOPT-OMM, and FlexFutures.
Additional information: www.dgcx.ae, www.flextrade.com
Muscat Securities Market (MSM) and NYSE Technologies announced the migration of the MSM to NYSE Technologies’ NSC V900 trading platform. The trading infrastructure offers market participants industry leading performance and speed. The NSC platform is utilized by exchanges across the globe.
Additional information: www.msm.gov.om, www.nyse.com/technologies
Ward Systems Group now offers ChaosHunter Trader, which allows you to send trades based on formulas developed in the earlier ChaosHunter software directly to the Interactive Brokers (IB) Trader Workstation. ChaosHunter uses evolution to construct formulas that produce buy/sell signals in the financial markets and includes a utility to export data from IB for use with ChaosHunter to develop those formulas.
In addition, Ward Systems has a free converter program that translates a formula stored in a ChaosHunter (CH) model file into TradeStation EasyLanguage (TS EL) code. Before the converter was developed, many CH formulas required editing after the formula was pasted into the TS EL editor. The converter translates ChaosHunter formula operators for use with TradeStation.
Additional information: www.ward.net, www.ChaosHunter.com