OptionVue.com

Among the free educational resources found on the site are weekly trading tips and an online bookstore offering books, videotapes, and audiotapes at special prices. Visitors can use the Trader Tool online calculators to compute the fair market value of an option and the probability that an asset will hit a selected price.

The revamped Website also enables visitors to review the features and benefits of OptionVue 5 options analysis software, as they apply to the visitor's own level of options trading experience. A program demonstration is available.

Current OptionVue 5 owners have access to technical assistance on the site, including online product support, tips from fellow users, and an extensive program tutorial. The Website also offers a facility to request an upgrade to decimal-ready OptionVue 5 version 1.40, which allows users to easily respond to the securities industry's move from fractional to decimal pricing (final changeover is scheduled for completion by April 2001). This updated version also includes many other enhancements to its versatility, performance, and ease of use. 

In addition to offering OptionVue 5 for individual investors, OptionVue Systems also offers Onyx real-time risk management software for professional options traders.
 

The core algorithm is robust, and desired performance results can be achieved from individual market symbols and not just by relying on diversification of your portfolio. eAscTrend is adaptive to the ever-changing  market. Another feature of eAscTrend 5.0 is Auto-Scan, which seeks to uncover the best entries automatically, not only at the day's end but also in real time. 

eAscTrend uses eSignal online central data. No other data collecting or maintenance is needed. Monthly lease from $258, and yearly lease from $2,168.
 

Portfolio Evaluator 2000 helps the user create, historically test, and design portfolios for superior performance. Traders can apply systems to a portfolio of markets and perform mark-to-market analysis of portfolio performance. 

Money Manager 2000 applies money, scaling, and equity management strategies to maximize profits while controlling trading risk. Traders can backtest how much to trade, as Money Manager explains how to implement the strategy and compares trading performance before and after applying a strategy. 

3D SmartView 2000 determines the robustness of any trading system, identifying the system input values that offer the most robust trading performance relative to risk. 3D's key feature is color analysis applied to graphs to determine areas of robustness.
 

The program downloads and maintains stock and commodity data from any of three data vendors -- Dial Data, CSI, or MJK. Bar charts, together with any of the 23 built-in indicators, may be displayed for an unlimited number of securities. Users may save custom sets of indicators. An internal database will track any number of personal portfolios, indicating current value and net for each security. 

The manual, program, required files, and some demo data are all available free at the SpiffyCharts Website.
 

Turner, along with senior Online Trading Academy instructors, will develop and teach the new one-day Online TradingAcademy.com seminar in many major markets. The seminar teaches new traders how to trade in the stock market safely and profitably. She will discuss the unique psychological characteristics needed to make winning trades, explain and illustrate the basic technical analysis and market fundamentals, along with addressing money management techniques. Also in the curriculum is some nitty-gritty information about online brokers and electronic trading. 
 

Appian Traveler also allows a projector to display information to a group while leaving the presenter with room for notes on the laptop screen. Its Dvi-I interface allows full support for digital displays and projectors as well. The Appian Traveler is a good fit for mobile professionals who desire the portability of a laptop and don't want to always be limited to a single, small laptop screen.