June 2009

MONEY SHOW ACQUIRES CANADIAN FINANCIAL FORUMS

www.InterShow.com

InterShow has acquired the Financial Forum conferences in Canada from Diversified Business Communications. Money Show will now provide Canadian investors, traders, and financial advisors with access to experts who will provide them with the essential knowledge to successfully navigate, and profit from, today’s markets, the company said. The Canadian conferences will be produced as World Money Show events in Toronto and Vancouver in addition the World Money Show events in London, Hong Kong, and Orlando.

DRUMMOND ADDS TO SOFTWARE LINEUP

www.DrummondGeometry.com

DrummondGeometry.com has added Pipes and SetUps to its software lineup. These two indicators take advantage of the method’s ability to project support and resistance levels from multiple time periods onto a single chart. The Pipes indicator creates momentum-based studies, while the Setups software creates multicondition, multitime period filters. The software interfaces with TradeStation’s Scanner and RadarScreen for real-time monitoring. Subscribers participate in nightly market commentary and research delivered by Charles Drummond.

AGORA-X OFFERS CLEARING THROUGH CME CLEARPORT FOR OTC GRAIN SWAPS

www.agora-x.com

Agora-X, Llc will offer clearing through Cme ClearPort of over-the-counter (Otc) grain swaps negotiated on the Agora-X electronic communications network (Ecn). The Cme Group announced that Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Cftc) has granted an exemption to the Cme and the Chicago Board of Trade to clear certain Otc corn basis swaps and calendar swaps for corn, wheat, and soybeans.

FX360.COM PROVIDES INSTITUTIONAL-LEVEL CURRENCY RESEARCH FOR RETAIL TRADERS

www.gftforex.com

FX360.com, Global Forex Trading’s new website, redefines how investors receive their market news, analysis, and commentary in the currency market. Free to the public, FX360.com offers 24-hour real-time, market information and analysis. The site provides a free, one-stop destination for currency traders so they can spend less time and money gathering information and more time focusing on their trading.

AGRICHARTS PROVIDES SOLUTION FOR BROCK ASSOCIATES MOBILE PLATFORM

www.agricharts.com

AgriCharts, a division of Barchart.com, announced an initiative with Brock Associates, an agricultural commodity advisory firm for farmers, farm owners, and agribusinesses to provide a market-focused mobile platform to the agricultural industry and Brock Associates’ clients. The mobile platform provides market quotes, news, weather, and Brock Associates’ market commentary. Subscribers to Brock Associates’ Daily Market Commentaries can access complete market commentaries via the mobile platform in real time.

TRADE MONSTER INTRODUCES TWITTER TRADESHARE

www.trademonster.com


www.optionmonster.com

trade Monster, an online broker for self-directed investors, has integrated the microblog software Twitter with tradeShare. With one click from the trading platform, trade Monster customers can post microblogs onto the social networking site Twitter. Wherever a trade Monster customer looks at a quote or potential trade, they are given the option of posting their trade information to Twitter. If they opt to do so, an editable message is automatically generated, summarizing the trade within the 140-character Twitter message limit. This new functionality is available at no cost to the customer.

MTPREDICTOR LAUNCHES SPECIAL PRICING, TRADING COURSE

www.MTPredictor.com

MTPredictor has announced lower pricing for traders who purchase both the standalone MTPredictor v6.0 (primarily for daily/weekly charts) and the Real-time RT add-ons (for live, intraday trading). The Combo Package is available at US$2,745, a $500 discount for one. The firm has also confirmed the publication of its updated trading course (parts 1 and 2) as full-color paperback books. They are available on the MTPredictor website and enable traders to keep a top-quality version of the trading course for reference on their desk as they trade.

AMERICAN CIVICS EXCHANGE ANNOUNCES LAUNCH

www.amciv.com

American Civics Exchangecorp has launched the American Civics Exchange, a US-based commercial market for political futures. The exchange enables traders to hedge and speculate on political risk through derivative contracts based on the outcomes of underlying events, including increases in tax rates, increases in minimum wage rates, enactment of “cap and trade” legislation, and other legislative, regulatory, and legal outcomes. The ability to offset exposure to such events using contracts traded on the exchange will enable risk managers and investors to reduce unwanted risk and protect themselves from adverse political outcomes. All contracts that trade on the exchange are binary in nature, meaning they settle at $0 or $100, and are fully cash-collateralized, eliminating any counterparty, credit, or clearing risk.

FXCM TARGETS GERMAN FX MARKET, RELEASES MULTILINGUAL FOREX SOFTWARE

www.dailyfx.com


www.fxcm.de

Forex Capital Markets has launched the firm’s German desk. Fxcm will strive to provide superior personalized customer support in German with no dealer intervention and tight spreads as low as one pip. The Fxcm German desk will provide currency trading products, services, education, and a Cfd product to launch in late 2009. Fxcm will aim to deliver the best forex trading technology, resources, and customer service in German.

In other news, Fxcm, in cooperation with DailyFX.com, announced the multilingual release of their forex software Trading Signals in English, Spanish, Arabic, French, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese. Available to Fxcm’s live clients through the DailyFX+ website, Trading Signals offers interactive trading alerts that update automatically in real time, 24 hours a day. Trading Signals tracks six technical strategies across 14 currency pairs.