eSignal Launches Wireless e-Quotes For CME, Also
Releases Version 8.0
New
NASDAQ Product Measures "Electronic Market Noise"
Everyforex.com
Updates Website
Tradertrainer.com
Launches New Concept To Trading Education
UBS
To Acquire ABN AMRO Global Futures And Options
Market Technologies Releases VantagePoint Version 6.4
DTN
Launches SupplyCast, Predicts Impact Of Hurricanes On Oil And Natural Gas
Ubmatrix Launches xBReeze Open Source Edition
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TRADE NEWS & PRODUCTS
eSignal Launches Wireless e-Quotes For CME, Also Releases Version 8.0
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eSignal
has developed a tailored version of eSignal's QuoTrek customized streaming
quote, charting, and news package called CME E-quotes Wireless, for Chicago
Mercantile Exchange (CME) for CME users. CME E-quotes Wireless features
include Quote/Portfolio Window, which lets the user view two portfolios
of 15 symbols each; Charts, which displays real-time data in a line, bar,
or candlestick chart; and Pricing and Availability. The new service is
available to all existing CME E-quotes users.
In other news, eSignal announced that it had released the latest version of the company's software. Version 8.0 provides additional market data from global exchanges, including expanded foreign exchange and Treasury data, as well as a host of product enhancements. eSignal 8.0 includes futures information from the Dow Jones Commodities News Services, enhanced futures analytics and several new add-on studies. The updated software is available at no cost to all registered users of eSignal and eSignal Pro. www.esignal.com
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New NASDAQ Product Measures "Electronic Market Noise"
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NASDAQ
said it had unveiled a real-time product, NASDAQ Market Velocity, which
detects the level of market activity in NASDAQ stocks and alerts traders
to events before they appear in price and volume information. Market Velocity
is one of four products included in NASDAQ Market Analytix that provides
a new level of transparency to trading activity in NASDAQ trading systems.
The other three are NASDAQ Market Forces, NASDAQ Competitive Vwap Benchmark
and NASDAQ Competitive Vwap Leaders.
www.nasdaq.com |
Everyforex.com Updates Website
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EveryForex.com
said that it had updated the features of its website, offering clearer
navigation, more focused content, and a cleaner user interface for enhanced
usability for all foreign exchange traders and retail traders.
Everyforex.com added that several well-known foreign exchange companies now provide information for the site. The updated site employs a search engine optimization strategy and cleaned-up back-end coding. The entire website was built using internal resources, tools, and expertise to enhance the forex trading users' experience. www.everyforex.com |
Tradertrainer.com Launches New Concept To Trading Education
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TraderTrainer
said it had introduced a new concept in trading education that would prove
to be useful for traders and investors. The online tool, which can be found
on the website, gives the user some feedback about his or her trading performance,
providing detailed insight and analysis. This web-based trading simulator
allows the user to practice trading online using real securities data and
then objectively grade the user's performance against hundreds, and eventually
thousands, of other users. The tool is currently free of charge.
www.tradertrainer.com |
UBS To Acquire ABN AMRO Global Futures And Options
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UBS
announced that it would acquire the global futures and options business
of ABN Amro for $386 million plus net tangible assets. This places UBS
as a market leader in the futures and options industry as a global provider
of execution and clearing services across multiple asset classes including
commodities, equities, equity indexes, interest rates, and currencies.
The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2006, UBS
added.
www.ubs.com |
Market Technologies Releases VantagePoint Version 6.4
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Market
Technologies' president and chief executive officer Louis B. Mendelsohn
announced that his company had released VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis
Software, version 6.4. Clients of Market Technologies can now apply the
software's predictive accuracy to a total of 90 markets, Mendelsohn said.
These markets include the emini Standard & Poor's 500, Semiconductor
Holdrs, and Streettracks Gold Trust.
New features have also been added to enhance performance and customer satisfaction, Mendelsohn concluded. www.tradertech.com/index.asp |
DTN Launches SupplyCast, Predicts Impact Of Hurricanes On Oil And Natural Gas
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DTN
announced that it had launched DTN Hurricane SupplyCast (HSC), a new trading
solution that combines tropical weather forecasts with engineering models
to offer long- and short-term supply impact forecasts for the natural gas
and oil industry. From offshore production to refining capacity, DTN's
HSC delivers production and supply predictions to help make trading decisions,
the company added. HSC covers platforms, offshore pipelines, refineries,
ports, and terminals, and supply forecasts are made up to five days before
a hurricane hits, and forecasts the impact for the next 365 days.
www.dtn.com |
Ubmatrix Launches xBReeze Open Source Edition
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At the XBRL International conference in Madrid, Ubmatrix announced
the launch of xBReeze, an online platform dedicated to XBRL-based data
exchange.
UBmatrix will offer complimentary use of its software products to open-source taxonomy project teams via the new hosted software service, xBReeze Open Source Edition. xBReeze was due to launch on June 30, 2006. xBReeze Open Source Edition supports standards committees, academic groups, or any team of domain experts that wish to design and publish XBRL taxonomies. www.ubmatrix.com |
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