Trading
Stocks Are Still Up (Weekly Financial Review (Oct. 21, 2011).
It was a sea of green on Wall Street and in Europe as markets recorded another week of gains. As Friday came to a close, U.S. stocks were at their highest levels in two and a half months. All three indexes are in the plus for the year. For the entire week, the S&P and…
Read MoreMoving on Up (Financial Week, October 10-14, 2011)
North American and European Markets rose significantly on Friday, closing out a strong week and posting gains in most sectors. In Friday morning trading, the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P were each up roughly 1%. By the closing bell on Friday, the Dow-Jones had gained 166.36 points to close at 11,644.49, an increase of 1.45%. The…
Read MoreA Winning Week on Wall Street and Worldwide
Yes, stocks remained higher all week for the first time in nearly two months. Friday also brought this quarter’s “Quadruple Witching,” when contracts expire for stock index futures, stock index options, stock options and single stock futures on a single day. The biggest winner was the Nasdaq, which gained 6.3% percent for the week. The…
Read MoreFinancial Week in Review, September 5-9, 2011
Another week of worldwide volatility ends with the Dow dropping more than 300 points on Friday, with all major U.S. Indexes closing in the red. In fact, nearly every stock index closed lower than it did last week. Bank of America has proposed cutting approximately 40,000 jobs nationwide as part of a corporate restructuring plan…
Read MoreTypes of Trading Solutions and What They Mean to You
Electronic Trading Platforms and Tools Traders use a combination of several tools in their daily routine. These include charting software, pattern-recognition software, risk-analysis tools, currency converters, simulators, etc. These tools can be used independently or can be integrated into a custom online trading platform to save time and effort. Electronic Trading platforms, such as ETNA…
Read MoreTrading socialized
Social media are here to stay. Period. There is no way you can avoid Twitter and Facebook and Linkedin and Foursquare and more and more. Your friends checked-in in a bar and one of them was crowned a Mayor; your @girlfriend bought lettuce; the @person-you-do-not-even-know twitted about a terrible hangover and Lady Gaga released a…
Read MoreWhite Paper: Silverlight Out of Browser
This whitepaper describes programming and design aspects for installation and customization of Silverlight functioning out of browser. With the advent of the latest Silverlight business application-focused enhancements, large-scale interfaces and associated tooling provided by Visual Studio and Expression Studio, a developer is in a position to build this type of application rapidly and enjoy benefits…
Read MoreChoosing OMS
«OMS» or Order Management System is an application developed to execute orders in the fastest and the most efficient way. Order execution is not the only purpose of an OMS, of course, but the most important one. While a lot of worthy OMSs operate in the market, none of them fits all possible requirements hundred- per- cent. What issues should be taken into consideration when a person takes a decision on buying…
Read MoreHow to Create a Successful Trading Software
Modern society could hardly be imagined without IT. The Stock Exchange as a part of modern business has not missed the unique opportunity to utilize this new medium being anxious to boost and facilitate trading processes. It goes without saying, speed and quality are crucial in financial world. To meet these requirements modern software vendors…
Read MoreOptions Trading Software
“Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors…” The above-mentioned text is well-known for all users of the options trading software. It’s strongly recommended by one official organization that all option traders should get and read the document of 161 pages before they place their first order.
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