I’m sure a few of you are familiar with Shadow Trader from their weekly videos, Red Option subscription service, and their daily thinkorswim chat room commentary. This morning, the folks at ST have released a new service aimed at daytraders called TradeStreamLive.

Shadow Trader’s TradeStreamLive is a cutting edge, revolutionary service that generates automated, real-time, trade-navigated suggestions complete with defined entry levels, defined stop-loss levels, and defined exit levels that are instantly calculated and streamed to you live in real time with specific audio prompts. Our proprietary algorithms, built by a group of successful traders, combines many years of experience and knowledge acquired by a team of professional traders from varied sectors of the market. This team then put forth their own trading models, triggers, and risk management rules to a group of very talented financial programmers who combined them into the most accurate and sophisticated trade identification and risk management system available today.

Here’s a demo of their streaming service for those interested.

While I can’t comment on how well the service works since it’s been released a total of 8 hours, I will say that for those interested, TradeStreamLive is offering free trials for those interested. Normally, the free trial offer is good for a 10 day period; however, with the system being released to the general public after months of internal testing, it appears that the free trial period during this beta phase will last most of, if not, the entire month of April.

Once the free trial period has ended, TSL has a few different pricing options. For thinkorswim clients, TSL offers a monthly subscription price of $75 or a yearly subscription at $750, a savings of $150 (or two months free as they advertise). For those not in thinkorswim, the monthly and yearly prices are $95 and $950, respectively.

I have high hopes for TSL seeing as how my experiences with Red Option and Shadow Trader have been nothing short of wonderful. Those guys have set the bar pretty high with their previous subscription services but I have no doubts that their newest system, TSL, will vault over that bar with ease.

I’ve already signed up for the free trial. For those day traders around here, I’ll have a more thorough evaluation once the system’s fully functional.

Sure, Google news is nice. It’s a great news feed pulling from other sites and presenting it in a nice little package. Imagine if there was a way to grab the news even faster. Faster than Google, you say? From the looks of it, that’s exactly what Gal, founder of Instantbull, has done.
Welcome newsflashr, the latest in web news services.

Now, while I don’t care for pink (and oddly enough neither does my wife), the color choice is outstanding with this Web 2.0 site. The layout’s also very interesting. Google and other news sites normally list recent news by time, and in some cases there are biases toward their own platform. newsflashr removes the bias from reporting by using Alexa, a web traffic tool, to determine the order the news is reported in. While Alexa may not be the premier method of determining internet traffic, it should be more than sufficient, especially for this application.

The FAQ on the site also helps to explain the different color choices, as well as how their tag cloud works and how quickly news feeds are updated:

How often are the news topics updated?
- newsflashr auto-generates every 15 minutes resulting in a new display of the most popular keywords (topics) in the headlines. These topics are extracted from all the latest news feeds. Each category results in a different ‘cloud’ of top topics.

Why do words in the topic cloud appear in different colors and sizes?
- Words that match fresh headlines are colored in pink. The slider above the topic cloud can be dragged to highlight topic freshness from 1 to 7 hours ago. The size of the words (at right) is proportional to headline popularity (at left).

What is the Alexa rank?
- Alexa is an Amazon owned company that independently ranks the popularity (traffic) of web sites. The closer the Alexa rank is to #1, the more popular the site e.g. Yahoo’s website & is ranked #1 because it is currently the most popular site on the Web.

How do I submit a news blog?
- Please send us an email with the: (1)blog name, (2)url, (3)news feed (4)16×16 pixel icon (5)category (e.g. business, technology blogs). Good candidates should have a significant presence on the Web and a regularly updated & well-formatted news feed (note: old atom or rss feed versions won’t be processed … time to upgrade?).

How far back can I search news topics in the headlines?
- If you type in a keyword search, results between 0 and 7 days old will be displayed. Headline search results are preceded by a convenient summary matrix. Note that search results are focused on words that appeared in news headlines only.

As the popularity of newsflashr grows, expect a larger assortment of news feeds to be compiled by them, including blogs. Currently, newsflashr compiles blog feeds from the politics and technology circles. In time, I’d expect the other major headlines such as the business section (hint, hint) to accept blog feeds. Not only will this allow you to read undiscovered blogs in different headline circles, but it may even help expand your readership.
The biggest issue newsflashr has is the competition. I won’t lie, but Google News is pretty nice and may be difficult for some so used to using it to switch over. But when you have a product that’s faster, cleaner, and potentially unbiased (as media should be), it’s only a matter of time before it catches on.

If you have a few minutes and need to catch up on what’s hot in the world before anyone else, give newsflashr a quick visit.