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AMEX

The American Stock Exchange® (AMEX®) offers trading across a full range of equities, options and exchange traded funds (ETFs), including structured products and HOLDRS^SM. In addition to its role as a national equities market, the Amex is the pioneer of the ETF, responsible for bringing the first domestic product to market in 1993. Leading the industry in ETF listings, the Amex lists approximately 400 ETFs to date. The AMEX is also one of the largest options exchanges in the U.S., trading options on broad-based and sector indexes as well as domestic and foreign stocks. For more information, please visit www.amex.com.

BigTrends

BigTrends.com provides investors with specific stock and options strategies and investment education to help create opportunities from significant market trends.

Price Headley, founder of BigTrends.com, speaks regularly to investment audiences nationwide and appears regularly on CNBC, Fox News, Bloomberg Television and in a variety of print and online financial news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Forbes, Investor's Business Daily and Today. Timer Digest recognized the success of BigTrends.com's investment strategies by ranking Price among the Top 10 Market Timers for stock market timing.

CBOE - The Options Institute

The Options Institute is the educational arm of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the pioneer of listed options. The Institute was created as a result of the Exchange’s dedication to fostering education and the intelligent use of options. Founded in 1985, The Options Institute is recognized as the worldwide leader in options education. To date, The Institute has instructed options users, from individual investors to portfolio managers, Federal and State Securities regulators, educators and members of the media.  Further information about the Options Institute and the educational seminars and events can be found on the CBOE website at www.cboe.com/LearnCenter.

CME Group

CME Group is an entity formed by the merger of CME and CBOT. They bring more than 250 years of expertise to the global marketplace, and are one of the largest and most diverse exchange in the world for trading futures and options. They offer one of the widest range of benchmark products available on any exchange that cover all major asset classes, such as interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, commodities, energy, and alternative investments. CME Group is traded on NYSE and NASDAQ under the symbol "CME."

DTI

DTI was built on the foundation of experienced traders. They trade their own accounts in their classroom and in their Trading Room. Their teaching methods combine book learning and market theories with hands-on execution of trades. One of the key benefits to studying at DTI is to understand the role of emotions in trading.

Their courses and software are actually quite simple and are all aimed at helping you become a financially self-directed and independent trader. The core of the DTI Method is based on three important elements: Time of Day, Key Numbers (support, pivot, resistance), and Major Market Indicators. With the power of the DTI Method and a solid approach to money management, they are committed to helping you increase your accuracy and reduce your risk in the markets.

International Securities Exchange (ISE)

The International Securities Exchange operates a family of fully electronic trading platforms, creating efficient markets through innovative technology and market structure. ISE’s markets portfolio consists of an options exchange and a stock exchange. As the world’s largest equity options trading venue, ISE offers options on equities, ETFs, indexes, and FX.

ISE FX Options® provide investors with exposure to rate movements in the global foreign currency market and can be easily traded through all options-enabled online brokerage accounts. These exchange-listed securities are cash-settled in U.S. dollars and have a European style exercise.

ISE is a wholly owned subsidiary of Eurex, a leading global derivatives exchange. Together, Eurex and ISE are the global market leader in individual equity and equity index derivatives.

Option Strategist

Lawrence McMillan, veteran trader, is the founder and president of McMillan Analysis Corporation. An active trader, he manages his own account and also manages option-oriented accounts for certain individuals. Mr. McMillan speaks on option strategies at many seminars and colloquia in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Prior to founding his own firm, he was a proprietary trader at two major brokerage firms-primarily Thomson McKinnon Securities, where he ran the equity arbitrage department for nine years. He is perhaps best known as the author of Options As a Strategic Investment, the bestselling work on stock and index options strategies, which has sold over 200,000 copies. In a research capacity, Mr. McMillan edits and contributes to his firm's publications: Daily Volume Alerts, The Option Strategist, and The Daily Strategist-a derivative products newsletters covering equity, index, and futures options. He is quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, Data Broadcasting's Exchange magazine, Futures magazine, theStreet.com, and Active Trader magazine.

OneChicago

OneChicago, the Exchange for Single Stock Futures, currently has over 600 listed SSFs on most of the S&P 500 stocks, as well as 12 SSF ETFs which include the DIA®, SPY, QQQQ®, and IWM® . Please visit www.onechicago.com to view the full listings, take advantage of the OneChicago Calculator, and discover the opportunities that may be available as an investor using SSFs.

Trade-Ideas

Trade-Ideas was created to bring the next generation of pre trade analysis technology to market. Our array of statistical analysis and pattern recognition servers connect to the exchanges and monitor every tick for every trade on the NASDAQ, AMEX, and NYSE. The servers keep statistical baselines on what is deemed to be usual and unusual for any given stock, index, and ETF. Users can then pick and choose different events to watch and filters to refine the universe of stocks being monitored. The result is an uninterrupted, real-time stream of potential trade opportunities streamed directly to the users desktop.

WizeTrade

Wizetrade is the investor software and education company that instills confidence through innovative training and tools, thus enabling people to be actively involved in their financial future so they can be successful on their own terms. Founded in 1999, The WizeTrade Group, LLP provides traders of all experience levels with a suite of software products and investor training classes that assist them with their trading selections. The Wizetrade suite of products includes tools for trading stocks, stock options, (spot) FOREX currencies, commodities and futures, as well as CommandTRADE®, CommandTRADE® FX. Through Wizetrade TV and Wizetrade University, individual investors take advantage of a wide range of workshops, classes and online resources that enable them to make confident trading decisions.