TRADE NEWS & PRODUCTS
Market Vectors ETF Trust announced the Market Vectors Indonesia Small-Cap exchange traded fund (IDXJ), one of the first US-listed ETFs designed to provide investors with pure-play exposure to the small-capitalization segment of Indonesia’s stock market. IDXJ is joining Market Vectors Indonesia Index ETF (IDX), which focuses on the large-cap segment of the Indonesian economy.
Additional information: www.vaneck.com/funds/IDXJ.aspx
Apex Investing Institute now offers its online Ultimate Hedge Strategy course to retail traders. The strategy redefines the rules of risk management, allowing forex, futures, and ETF traders to increase their stop-losses while simultaneously decreasing their risk. The strategy can be done as a straddle hedge to allow traders to trade news with limited risk and still have a high profit potential. Apex includes the whipsaw elimination strategy, which eliminates stops from being hunted.
Additional information: www.ApexInvesting.com
TradeStation has added new chart trading functionality to its analysis and trading platform, giving traders additional speed and flexibility in placing orders and managing their positions. Used with a chart analysis window in the TradeStation platform, the new chart trading feature integrates click & drag order-entry functionality, allowing traders to quickly and easily place trades and manage positions and orders from a chart. Buy & sell orders can be placed, edited, or canceled by clicking directly on the chart or the various order-entry buttons in the chart trading bar. Open orders can be moved to new price levels by simply clicking and dragging the corresponding order lines.
Additional information: www.tradestation.com
John Bollinger’s EquityTrader Pro has added chandelier and parabolic stops to its interactive flash charts. The Pro subscription also has a range of Bollinger Band indicators, comprehensive technical analysis tools, and the ability to program your own indicators using BBScript. Chandelier and parabolic stops are used to advise users when it is time to exit a position. Both can be calculated starting at the time that you enter a trade or plotted in the market trading indicators.
Additional information: www.EquityTrader.com
Hardcore Computer offers speed and performance advantages for those engaged in high-speed trading technologies and techniques, and supports HFT with liquid submersion cooled computers. HFT firms and quantitative hedge funds are using Hardcore’s specialized hardware to hold short-term positions in equities, options, futures, ETFs, currencies, and other financial instruments that possess electronic trading capability.
Additional information: www.hardcorecomputer.com
Trading Concepts announced an updated emini trading program called the E-mini Success Formula 2.0. This mentoring program offers an online interactive learning environment; a plethora of checklists, strategy guides, and cheat sheets; unlimited personal email and phone support directly with founder and CEO Todd Mitchell; unlimited access to the daily charts and videos members area; several new trading strategies; and Mitchell’s trading insights and techniques.
Additional information: www.tradingconceptsinc.com
Nirvana Systems has released the RTM7 trading strategy, which runs on its OmniTrader and VisualTrader software platforms. RTM7, which is a 100% mechanical strategy, trades on short-term moves in order to profit from temporary price disparities.
Additional information: www.omnitrader.com
FX Addicts is introducing a weeklong, 7.5-hour class that details step-by-step procedures to learn about scalp trading. One live class a day is instructed online by expert instructors, with classes in English and Portuguese for now, and Spanish soon. The course teaches students how to use market price action for small profits several times per day. At the end of the course, attendees will have a clear understanding of scalping and how to implement a scalping strategy. Students should have some familiarity with trading, technical, and fundamental analysis.
Additional information: www.fxaddicts.com
TechniTrader’s Martha Stokes will discuss two topics in the July 2012 seminar for Worden TC2000 in Seattle, WA. The first is “Hybrid Indicators: How To Create A Trading Platform With Leading Indicators,” in which attendees will learn how to select the right indicators for their trading style and strategies. The second is “Fast Track Your Trading With Trigger Signals,” which will show how to streamline your trade analysis, find more trades faster, and more. This session is recommended for swing traders, momentum traders, daytraders, and option players.
Additional information: https://technitrader.com