October 2004 TRADE NEWS
News Releases & Products
Interactive Data To Acquire FutureSource
TraderBrain.com Is Launched
MarketWatch Education Campaign Is Renewed
RINA Systems Unveils Newest Version Of Performance Suite
HyperTrader Includes MB Trading As Offering
Tradecision 1.5 Now Available
CMS WebView Opens Second US Sales Office
SpiffyCharts Supports System Testing
Fidelity Unveils Range Of Independent Equity Research
Two-Day Seminar For Bollinger On Bollinger Bands
Field Financial Group Announces FFG Market Update Center
New Russell Index Procedures Ease Annual Tune-Up For
Stock Market Benchmarks
Resource For Stock Market Trading Firms
TRADE NEWS & PRODUCTS
Interactive Data To Acquire FutureSource
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Interactive Data to Acquire FutureSource
Interactive Data Corp. has agreed to acquire FutureSource, a privately held information source in the real-time futures, commodities, and foreign exchange markets. The acquisition is expected to close during the third quarter of 2004, subject to customary closing conditions and governmental approvals. Lombard, IL-based FutureSource provides traders, brokers, and risk managers with comprehensive futures, options and cash price data, news, and charting analysis tools through a series of networked, stand-alone, and Internet delivery platforms and software applications. It has sales and support offices throughout the US, Europe, Australia, and Latin America. Interactive Data added that it planned to combine FutureSource's products and services into its eSignal division. www.FutureSource.com
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TraderBrain.com Is Launched
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TraderBrain.com Is Launched
Juggernautica's TraderBrain.com is a web-based, stock-trading journal that allows market participants to toggle between a private trading diary containing detailed trade records with notes and the TraderBrain network, where shared journal entries and community forum messages reside. TraderBrain members can copy notes and insights from the community or share a private entry with the network. TraderBrain's features enable independent traders to capture details of stocks, options, funds, and futures trades exactly. Memberships are approximately $10 a month on a monthly, quarterly, or biannual subscription basis. www.TraderBrain.com |
MarketWatch Education Campaign Is Renewed
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MarketWatch
Education Campaign Is Renewed
MarketWatch.com announced that stock market education provider MarketWise has extended its contract to offer educational courses for trading and investing tactics to CBS.MarketWatch.com and BigCharts.com users. MarketWise University conducts its sessions both online and live at major cities nationwide, inviting those interested in market education to classes where they develop the skills to become competent traders and investors. MarketWise teaches with real money in real time. www.marketwise.com
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RINA Systems Unveils Newest Version Of Performance Suite
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RINA Systems Unveils Newest Version Of Performance Suite
Rina Systems has released a new version of its Performance Suite software. Performance Suite 7 features include new graphs to analyze historical risk, save chart image, save chart data, control of assumptions on fixed capital, portfolio evaluator, and more. www.rinafinancial.com |
HyperTrader Includes MB Trading As Offering
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HyperTrader
Includes MB Trading As Offering
HyperTrader has added MB Trading to its host of available online brokers. HyperTrader offers a variety of technologies for clients who wish to use MB Trading's order entry platform in proprietary application development. HyperServer Lite allows MB Trading clients to use Mbt Navigator's real-time datafeed with charting and analytical programs that were not previously supported. HyperOrder is a host system that establishes a secure connection with MB Trading and allows order entry from charting and analysis programs that were not previously supported. www.hypertrader.it
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Tradecision 1.5 Now Available
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Tradecision
1.5 Now Available
Alyuda Research has released a new version of its trading software for market analysis and trading system development, Tradecision 1.5. This version offers a set of all-new tools and important enhancements. Both professional and standard versions of Tradecision are available, with the professional edition at $1,198 and the standard edition at $698. www.alyuda.com
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CMS WebView Opens Second US Sales Office
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CMS WebView Opens Second US Sales Office
CMS WebView has opened its second US sales office, this one in New York City (in March, CMS opened a sales office in Chicago). Cms has opened the offices to market its transactional data interface software to major US banks, exchanges, and other large investment and financial institutions. Transactional data interface is a modular software solution that enables financial institutions to collect, process, and distribute financial information in real time. www.cms.co.uk |
SpiffyCharts Supports System Testing
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SpiffyCharts Supports System Testing
The latest version of SpiffyCharts allows a user to backtest almost any daily trading system, the company said. SpiffyChart's technical analysis section is built around a user-defined spreadsheet with attached chart. Columns can be added using any combination of the 30 built-in indicators or user-defined functions. Trading rules are written in English and are flexible. The portfolio tracking, data collection, and data editing functions are unchanged. Windows and Mac versions are available, with a Linux version expected soon. All are free when downloaded from the website. www.spiffycharts.com |
Fidelity Unveils Range Of Independent Equity Research
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Fidelity
Unveils Range Of Independent Equity Research
Fidelity Brokerage announced that it is expanding its suite of equity research for both individual investors and correspondent broker/dealer clients by adding analysis and opinions from some of the top-performing independent research providers. Fidelity clients will be able to make better-informed investment and portfolio management decisions. Fidelity's expanded independent research offering is free of charge for retail customers on Fidelity.com. www.Fidelity.com |
Two-Day Seminar For Bollinger On Bollinger Bands
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Two-Day Seminar For Bollinger On Bollinger Bands
Analyst John Bollinger will hold a two-day seminar covering trading systems and timing techniques crucial to profiting in the current market on October 2-3, 2004, in New York City. Bollinger, known for his Bollinger Bands technique, will cover his latest method, Bollinger envelopes. On the first day of the seminar, he will cover trading systems, with an emphasis on Bollinger Band pattern "The Squeeze," and how to profit from "walking the bands." The second day will focus on market timing with classic timing tools and techniques, as well as some modern tools. Both days are designed to be useful for daytraders as well as long-term investors. Seminar prices will range from $695 ($595 if you register before September 18) for one day to $1,195 for both days ($995 if you register before September 18). Check the Bollinger Bands website for additional details. www.BollingerBands.com/seminar/nyc04.php |
Field Financial Group Announces FFG Market Update Center
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Field
Financial Group Announces FFG Market Update Center
The Field Financial Group has announced that its Market Update Center has been updated. The center offers weekly updates and intraday market alerts filled with technical and fundamental analysis. Those who use the center will be provided entry points with predetermined stop-loss levels, exit points based on profit targets, and more. www.fieldfinancial.com |
New Russell Index Procedures Ease Annual Tune-Up For Stock Market Benchmarks
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New
Russell Index Procedures Ease Annual Tune-Up For Stock Market Benchmarks
Three changes to the Russell index process this year helped ensure an orderly transition for index fund investors and other followers of Russell indexes, the Tacoma, WA-based Frank Russell Co. announced. The procedural changes included a guaranteed weekend for enactment of index adjustments, new provisional indexes to allow early anticipation of index adjustments, and use of the Nasdaq Closing Cross for clear pricing of securities. Russell Investment Group, a global leader in multimanager investment services, produces a family of 21 US equity indexes, which are market cap-weighted and include only US common stocks. All indexes are subsets of the Russell 3000, which represents approximately 98% of the investable US equity market. www.russell.com/US/Indexes/US/default.asp |
Resource For Stock Market Trading Firms
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Resource For Stock Market Trading Firms
DRI International, founded as the Disaster Recovery Institute, is offering its resources to support the NASD Rule 3500 series and the NYSE Rule 446 Business Continuity and Contingency Plan, both of which require broker/dealer firms to define and test their business continuity plans. Under the new rules, every NASD and NYSE member must develop a plan that addresses various aspects of business continuity, including data backup and recovery, mission-critical systems, and alternate communications between the firm and its employees and the firm and its customers. In addition, a member's business continuity plan must address how the member will assure its customers' prompt access to their funds and securities in the event that the firm determines that it is unable to continue its business. www.drii.org |