The Community's Top-Ranked Contributors to Be Rewarded with Free Trades
NEW YORK, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/-- O'Reilly Money: Tech Conference -- The
first to introduce social networking into the world of online trading,
online discount broker TradeKing (http://www.tradeking.com) today announced here
from the O'Reilly Money: Tech Conference major new features to its
ground-breaking TradeKing Community. In addition to its signature
capabilities such as Certified Trades, the TradeKing Community now includes
more powerful views into trader rationale through Trade Notes and a new
"All-Star Trades" blog, offering "color commentary" and daily insights from
TradeKing experts on actual member trades, as they happen.
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"I place a high value on the ideas and comments from my fellow traders
in the TradeKing Community because I know their agenda is the same as mine
-- we just want to make smart trades," said TradeKing Community member
screen-named Will Profit. A 48-year-old retired publishing executive from
Texas, Will Profit uses a combination of Community features, including
blogs, Certified Trades, Trade Notes, Forums and Groups to stay in tune
with active traders' sentiment. "By listening to both the Wall Street
pundits and Main Street traders, I believe I get a more complete picture of
what's happening at any given moment in the market. There is just an
amazingly rich amount of information buried in the individual trader and
TradeKing gives you a way to access and learn from it."
Adding another new dimension to Community activity, TradeKing will
become the first social investing site to reward those contributors deemed
most valuable by the Community. Members receiving the most Community votes
in February for the quality of their blog posts and/or Trade Notes will
receive unlimited free equities and options trades for the entire month of
March.
"Our Community members extract tangible value from learning what real
traders just like them are thinking and doing in terms of trading," said
Michael Massey, director of Community development for TradeKing.
"Therefore, we've focused much of our recent development efforts around
giving them even greater access to the reasoning and analysis behind the
trades. With more information comes greater understanding and knowledge
that can be used to make better trades."
Community Upgrade Highlights
Following are some of the key enhancements made recently to the
TradeKing Community:
-- Trade Notes are brief comments attached directly to a specific trade,
allowing members to share the rationale with other Community members,
as well as record the thinking behind their own investments in an
online trading diary.
-- All-Star Trades Blog offers further explanation and analysis of
interesting trades of the day or week by TradeKing's educators and
trading coaches.
-- Trading Activity gives members a fast and comprehensive view of what
other members of the Community are trading on a daily basis.
-- Groups make it easier for traders to stay in touch about specific
interests and make trading and learning together more seamless and
enjoyable.
-- Forums let members start or join ongoing conversations about any topic
that interests them.
The TradeKing Community was launched in 2005 to give individual
investors a place to connect and share their ideas. In just over two years,
the Community has grown to include more than 6,000 active members who
participate through blogging, publishing their Certified Trades and
commenting on those trades. To learn more about the TradeKing Community,
visit http://community.tradeking.com/.
About TradeKing
Recently rated the top discount broker for the second consecutive year
by SmartMoney Magazine ("Best Discount Broker" by SmartMoney 8/1/07, based:
on Customer Service; Mutual Funds; Trading Tools; Research; Banking
Amenities) (1), TradeKing, at http://www.tradeking.com, is a nationally
licensed online broker dealer offering simple, low flat fees (Please see
https://www.tradeking.com/PrivateView/services/Services/commissions.tmpl
for more details on trade commissions for low priced stocks, bonds, mutual
funds and other securities).
The TradeKing Web-based platform features powerful online equity,
options and fixed-income trading tools including real-time portfolio
information, advanced order entry, customized charting and alerts, free
research and integrated news, stock, option and mutual fund screeners,
volatility charts, a pricing probability calculator, enhanced option chains
and interactive educational information.
TradeKing also features innovative community networking capabilities to
help connect like-minded traders for enhanced strategy development and
information sharing. TradeKing provides self-directed investors with
discount brokerage services, and does not make recommendations or offer
investment advice. Online trading system response and access times may vary
due to market conditions, system performance, and other factors. Non-U.S.
residents may be subject to country-specific restrictions. Options involve
risk and are not suitable for all investors. Please read Characteristics
and Risks of Standardized Options available at
http://content.tradeking.com/wiki/display/tkservice/Characteristics+and+Ris
ks. Member FINRA/SIPC.
(1) SmartMoney is a joint publishing venture of Dow Jones & Company,
Inc.
and Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
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http://www.tradeking.com
http://community.tradeking.com
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CONTACT:
Sue Parente of Tier One Partners,
+1-781-642-7788, sparente@tieronepr.com, for TradeKing
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