July 2008 TRADE NEWS
News Releases & Products

Software Allows Trades To Be Entered From Charts
Father?Son Trading Team Launches Website
Commodity Futures Exam Study Manual Is Updated
Thomson Acquires Reuters
NeuroDimension Releases Broker Application
FXCM Or MetaTrader 4 Choice Of Platform
Rosenthal, Gain To Provide UK Online Forex And Futures Services
TraderBlog Is Ranked In Top 100
VisualTrader 4.0 Works In RT, EOD
Brent & Oman Crude Financial Contracts Trade On Dubai Merc
Invesco, Deutschebank Include Long, Short Exchange-Traded Commodity Products
Trading Platform For Dealers, Liquidity Providers
ADVFN Expands With Updated Sites
 

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TRADE NEWS & PRODUCTS



Software Allows Trades To Be Entered From Charts

  FuturePath Trading's latest release of PhotonTrader Pro allows trades to be entered directly from charts, the company said. FuturePath also released PhotonTrader, a new trading platform designed to meet the performance demands of professional traders, but simple enough for beginning retail traders. Both PhotonTraders have multiple order-entry modules that can be customized.

www.fptrading.com

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 Father?Son Trading Team Launches Website

   Greenroomstocks.com announced the launch of their website, where they teach a technically based form of momentum swing trading based on price and volume analysis. The developers, Gary and Jason Lane, a father?son team, also run a real-time chatroom as well as produce video reviews going over their trades and market indexes at the website.

www.GreenroomStocks.com

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Commodity Futures Exam Study Manual Is Updated

  The Series 3 National Commodity Futures Exam Study Manual has been updated, publisher Securities Exam Preparation said. A Series 3 exam is required by the National Futures Association to act as a sales person for a commodity futures firm; and for those who wish to register as a Commodity Trading Advisor or Commodity Pool Operator. The study manual has practice questions and explanations and retails for $155 plus shipping & handling.

www.SecuritiesExam.com

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Thomson Acquires Reuters

  The Thomson Corp. completed its acquisition of Reuters Group (parent company of Equis International), forming Thomson Reuters, now a company with more than 50,000 employees in 93 countries and 2007 pro forma revenues of approximately US$12.4 billion.

www.thomsonreuters.com

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NeuroDimension Releases Broker Application

  NeuroDimension has unleashed Trader68, a broker application that handles fully automated order routing to Interactive Brokers accounts from third-party trading systems on Collective2 as well as signals from NeuroDimension's TradingSolutions Real-Time product. Trader68, which is free, features support for stocks, exchange traded funds, futures, and forex markets.

www.nd.com

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FXCM Or MetaTrader 4 Choice Of Platform

FXCM clients can now choose between trading on the FXCM trading platform or MetaQuotes' MetaTrader 4 platform, FXCM and MetaQuotes announced.

www.fxcm.com

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Rosenthal, Gain To Provide UK Online Forex And Futures Services

  Futures clearing firm Rosenthal Collins Group (RCG) and Gain Capital Group, in retail foreign exchange trading, together will establish operations in the United Kingdom. RCG Gain will offer online trading capabilities in forex and futures to self-directed investors in the UK, expanding into the European Union later.

www.gaincapital.com

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TraderBlog Is Ranked In Top 100

  TraderBlog.com, which is authored by TradingEducation senior market analyst Jim Wyckoff, was named one of the top 100 blogs in headline impressions and click-throughs, BlogBurst announced. BlogBurst is a service that positions blogs on top-tier online destinations. Wyckoff supplies readers with information that can be applied to trading scenarios.

www.TradingEducation.com

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VisualTrader 4.0 Works In RT, EOD

  VisualTrader 4.0 works equally in real-time and end of day, the developer, Nirvana Systems, said. VisualTrader will be able to help find technical breakouts and reversals. The user can confirm his or her trades using trading signals and patterns. The software is compatible with OmniTrader.

www.VisualTrader.com

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Brent & Oman Crude Financial Contracts Trade On Dubai Merc

  The Dubai Mercantile Exchange Ltd. (DME) announced that its customers will be able to trade the exchange's two new financially settled futures contracts for Brent and Oman crude oil. The new Brent and Oman contracts will be listed for trading on the exchange's electronic trading system, DME Direct. These contracts will provide DME traders with the tools to trade the spread between sweet and sour crude oil benchmarks.

www.dubaimerc.com

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Invesco, Deutschebank Include Long, Short Exchange-Traded Commodity Products

  Invesco PowerShares Capital Management and Deutschebank announced that they would include 11 additional recently listed long and short agriculture, gold, and commodity exchange-traded notes (ETNs), which will offer investors exposure to variations of the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index.

In other news, Invesco PowerShares  launched a family of globally asset-allocated "ETFs of ETFs," the PowerShares Autonomic Global Asset Portfolios. These ETFs are designed to provide investors access to long-term, core asset allocation strategies based on three targeted-risk profiles: balanced, balanced growth, and growth. They are based on indexes composed of PowerShares ETFs representing a range of asset classes.

www.invescopowershares.com
www.invesco.com
www.db.com

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Trading Platform For Dealers, Liquidity Providers

  FX Bridge announced its new foreign exchange trading platform, ProTrader Plus. The platform is suited for dealers and liquidity providers looking to gain access to profitable retail deal flow, the developer added.

www.FXBridge.com

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ADVFN Expands With Updated Sites

  Silicon Investor, along with sister site InvestorsHub, now has dedicated forex and commodities channels, stock quote pages, a charting package, news, and data from more than 80 global exchanges, ADVFN said. Both sites include new tools such as watchlists, toplists, and portfolio along with other features already on parent website ADVFN. All three sites include International Super Quote, a source for worldwide data, which enables investors to find anything from a stock to a commodity, forex, or index.

www.advfn.com

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Originally published in the July 2008 issue of Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine. All rights reserved. © Copyright 2008, Technical Analysis, Inc.