Data Broadcasting Announces New Enhanced Version of Signal Online; First Internet Provider To Provide Nasdaq Level II Free.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 1998--Data Broadcasting Corp. (Nasdaq:DBCC DBCC Daytona Beach Community College (Florida) DBCC District Business Conduct Committee (NASD) DBCC Desert Breeze Community Church (Glendale, AZ, USA) ) (DBC See dBA. (language, parallel) DBC - A data-parallel bit-serial C based on MPL. SRC, Bowie MD. E-mail: <maya@super.org>. ), America's leading provider of real-time financial market data to individual investors and traders, Tuesday announced a new enhanced version of Signal Online, DBC's flagship real-time quote and news product. Signal Online offers a host of new features, including free Nasdaq Level II Market Maker information, historical charts and fundamental data. Signal Online, a fully featured trading workstation for the individual trader and investor, now offers sophisticated trading tools such as Nasdaq Level II, Time and Sales information, Fundamental Data, Historical Charts and Analytics and advanced news searching functionality. Utilizing Active Push technology, this information will add to DBC's already robust stream of financial data, thus making it an even more useful tool to the individual trader and investor. To ensure dependable data, the Signal service now offers added reliability through its new proprietary Connection Manager server software, which manages seamless load-balancing and supports fault-tolerant server technology, ensuring high-quality, real-time service. "With the Internet accounting for over 50 percent of our new Signal sales, DBC is excited to offer these advanced features to the growing sophisticated online trader," said DBC President Mark Imperiale. "Traditionally Nasdaq Level II has only been available to professional traders or as a premium service at high cost. DBC is the first in the industry to offer Nasdaq Level II free to its customers." In its ever-increasing effort to provide advanced trading tools to the individual, DBC has added 20 analytic studies, including Various Moving Average Series, Stochastics, Bollinger Bands Bollinger Bands Plus or minus two standard deviations where the standard deviations are calculated historically in a moving window estimation. Hence, the bands will widen if the most recent data is more volatile. and Strength and Momentum Indicators Momentum indicators Indicators used in market analysis to quantify the momentum of upward and downward price movements. . In addition to these tools, as part of its basic subscription, DBC offers free Nasdaq Level II Market Maker information, news from CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. MarketWatch, e-mail and pager alerts, portfolio management and customizable tickers for as little as $79 per month with a yearly prepaid subscription. DBC recently added to its arsenal of transmission methods, a wireless Internet solution using AT&T's wireless CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data) A low-speed, digital, wireless data network that is an enhancement to an existing analog cellular network. Based on IBM's CelluPlan II, CDPD provides a packet overlay onto the AMPS network and moves data at 19. network for Signal Online and StockEdge Online customers for a fixed cost. With the addition of the technical tools now available, the mobile trader has every opportunity to make intelligent, time-sensitive decisions using DBC's products. Additionally, the Signal Online and StockEdge Online software offers the ability to customize the software by linking directly to the broker's online trading Online Trading Making trades via the Internet. Notes: The use of online trading increased dramatically in the mid to late 1990's with the advent of high-speed computers and Internet connections. Stocks, bonds, options, futures, and currencies can all be traded online. Web site and placing trades. About Data Broadcasting Data Broadcasting is America's leading provider of real-time market data to the individual trader and investor. The company delivers real-time stock quotes, financial and sports news, and gaming information to 250,000 users via PCs, wireless FM, cable satellite and the Internet (http://www.dbc.com and http://cbs.marketwatch.com). With its Capital Management Sciences division, Data Broadcasting also is the leading provider of fixed-income portfolio analytics used for valuation and risk-management purposes. For more information on DBC's line of financial information products, visit the company's news room on the Internet at http://www.dbc.com/pr. CONTACT: Data Broadcasting Corp., San Mateo Kathy Luther, 650/377-3554 kluther@dbc.com or Pondel Parsons Parsons, city (1990 pop. 11,924), Labette co., SE Kans.; inc. 1871. It is a shipping point for dairy products, grain, and livestock. Manufactures include ammunition, wire and paper products, plastics, and appliances. & Wilkinson, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Cecilia A. Wilkinson/A. William Krenn, 310/207-9300 investor@pondel.com |
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