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» U.S. News & World Report, a publisher of consumer<br />
advice and rankings, has released its U.S. News Advisor<br />
Finder, a directory of 320,000 active investment advisors<br />
and 10,000 advisory firms. The directory will offer<br />
information about financial professionals and advisory<br />
firms to consumers seeking advisors. The directory<br />
features online tools that enable consumers to search<br />
based on location, investment and planning needs,<br />
advisor experience and other criteria. Information in the<br />
Advisor Finder is provided by Financial Media Group and<br />
is drawn from state and federal regulatory filings, which<br />
are submitted to state regulators, the Financial Industry<br />
Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Securities and<br />
Exchange Commission (SEC). According to the publisher,<br />
information from these filings will be updated quarterly<br />
in the Advisor Finder. You can find more information on<br />
http://money.usnews.com/financial-advisors.<br />
U.S. News Advisor Finder<br />
» Trading Technologies International (TT) announced<br />
its X_TRADER software is now installed at more than 50<br />
universities worldwide. Through its university program,<br />
TT works with undergraduate and graduate educators<br />
in business, financial engineering, math and computer<br />
science programs to help prepare students for careers<br />
in finance and the futures markets. Universities can<br />
incorporate TT’s X_TRADER software and APIs, which<br />
are donated to schools by TT, into coursework and oncampus<br />
trading labs, allowing students to learn about and<br />
experience trading and risk management in a simulated<br />
environment using tools and market data similar to what<br />
professionals use. Some of the schools in the program<br />
include The Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern<br />
University, Purdue University, Tulane University,<br />
University of Chicago, University of Colorado Denver,<br />
University of Illinois, and University of Virginia. Please visit<br />
www.tradingtechnologies.com for more information.<br />
» VectorVest announced the release of VectorVest<br />
AutoTimer and Portfolio Genius, proprietary tools<br />
designed to help the investor minimise time spent<br />
on portfolio management and help eliminate trading<br />
decisions that may be driven by emotion and deviate<br />
from an investor’s trading plan. VectorVest AutoTimer<br />
incorporates market timing signals into both historical<br />
and real-time trading plans for investors to determine<br />
separate portfolio-management rules based on market<br />
direction, and then automatically implements these rules<br />
without manual intervention. It can be used in historical<br />
mode to create, test and refine automated trading<br />
systems that include market timing, stock selection, stop<br />
criteria and other portfolio-management options. It also<br />
can be used in real time to implement an automated<br />
trading plan through VectorVest Portfolio Genius, a<br />
paper-trading tool that, when used with AutoTimer, allows<br />
investors to set up their trading plans with long, short, or<br />
neutral trading templates. For more details, please visit<br />
www.vectorvest.com/AutoTimerRT.<br />
» The CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) announced the<br />
launch of trading of futures with weekly expirations on<br />
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