NEW YORK, February 18, 2009 – Lightspeed Financial, LLC, a leading provider of direct market access trading technology, risk management solutions, and brokerage services for professional retail active traders and institutional investors, today, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Lightspeed Education, LLC, launched Lightspeed Spotlight, an online social networking community enabling its customers to interact with other Lightspeed customers and participate in online educational courses and seminars.
Lightspeed Spotlight is an online networking forum where members can:
- Participate in group discussions on a variety of trading and investing topics with other traders;
- Create groups and personal blogs to connect with other traders with similar trading styles and interests;
- Gain access to educational information and resources including discussions and online webinars from Lightspeed Trading, Options Industry Council and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange;
- Stay ahead of the curve with access to blog postings from prominent members of the financial services community including Fred Lane of Lane Berry & Company, International, Greg MacSweeney, Editor in Chief of Wall Street & Technology, Lightspeed customers, and Lightspeed CEO Stephen Ehrlich;
- View and post videos, articles and events on Spotlight’s message boards, blogs and calendar;
- Access research and analyst webinars from StreetBrains.com and, in the near future, chart pattern recognition techniques provided by Recognia, Inc. and;
- Stay on top of the latest news and market updates with the RSS feeds from Wall Street & Technology and Advanced Trading.
“Our goal is to arm our customers with the best trading tools, technology and educational services that they need to compete in today’s competitive markets,” Stephen Ehrlich, Chief Executive Officer, Lightspeed Financial, LLC. “Lightspeed Spotlight is exclusive to our customers and designed to foster an environment of knowledge sharing with the goal of helping members ultimately become better traders. What makes the vast majority of our traders successful is their thirst for knowledge and education. As such, we are continually listening to their feedback and testing new, innovative ways to best leverage emerging technologies to help them succeed.”
Lightspeed Spotlight is user-friendly and allows members to create their own profiles, upload photos, view and share videos and post articles. Members have the ability to invite friends within the community to participate in forum discussions, webcasts and to join and create groups based on their trading interests. Members of the Lightspeed Spotlight can also participate in live discussions with Lightspeed Trading executives, educational webinars, and webcasts on the functionalities of the Lightspeed Trader platform.
Ehrlich added, “These are not the ‘daytraders’ of the late 90s, who flew by the seat of their pants and had little understanding of the principles of trading, rather our clients are disciplined, professional students of the market who implement short-term strategies for a living or to supplement their existing income. They understand the importance of education and are eager to listen, help and share ideas, which is why we are confident Lightspeed Spotlight will be well received.”
To take a virtual tour of Lightspeed’s social community or test drive the lightning fast trading technology, visit the Lightspeed Trading booth (Booth 5806) at the upcoming NY Traders Expo at the Marriott Marquis New York from February 21-24.
Lightspeed will also host the “Lightspeed Presents Buy and Hold vs. Active Trading,” panel discussion about the merits of active trading strategies in a volatile market environment on February 23 from 10:30- 11:15 a.m. at the NY Traders Expo (O’Neill Room, Fourth Floor)
About Lightspeed Financial, LLCHeadquartered in New York City, Lightspeed Financial operates through three wholly-owned subsidiaries:
Lightspeed Trading, LLC operates as a fully disclosed introducing broker-dealer and FINRA and NFA member. The Company offers securities and direct access brokerage, trading and advanced order routing services to their customers utilizing Lightspeed’s software products.
Lightspeed Technologies, LLC serves as the Company’s technology development subsidiary. Lightspeed develops and operates Lightspeed Trader, Lightspeed’s Direct Market Access trading software application; Lightspeed Gateway, Lightspeed algorithmic trading offering; Lightspeed Risk, a real-time risk management application; and Lightspeed Admin, Middle Office Technology suite. Utilizing a number of proprietary technologies, Lightspeed offers these products and more to broker-dealers, institutional entities and professional traders.
Lightspeed Education, LLC delivers educational products to the Lightspeed Trading, LLC customer community. These products include third party educational tools, webinars and the Lighstpeed Spotlight social community.
