VantagePoint Named STAR Award Winner

WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- TraderPlanet.com, along with its media partner SFO Magazine, has named VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis Software the first place winner in the Trading Software category of the 2009 Superior Trading and Resource (STAR) Awards. This award program honors companies and individuals in the financial industry for exceptional achievement.

www.TraderPlanet.com, the co-host of the STAR Awards program, has over 30,000 members and is a well respected, internet-based educational resource for traders.  Because TraderPlanet does not sell any services or products and is self-sustaining through advertising revenue, SFO Magazine chose to partner with TraderPlanet to co-sponsor the awards program.  The STAR program consists of reviews and evaluations of products and services that provide outstanding value to traders. The winners are chosen by TraderPlanet members and visitors in a variety of categories including newsletters, trading software and trading platforms.

Market Technologies is very excited that the TraderPlanet community has chosen VantagePoint as the 2009 trading software winner. "We are absolutely delighted that VantagePoint is one of the 2009 STAR awards winners. Since the 1980s Market Technologies' research and development team, the Predictive Technologies Group, has devoted tens of thousands of man-hours and millions of dollars toward R&D of the most powerful and accurate predictive trading software in the financial industry.  Utilizing proprietary computer technologies that apply neural networks to intermarket data, the Predictive Technologies Group currently utilized its two patent-pending technologies to accomplish its mission, and this award continues to prove that we are doing just that," said Louis Mendelsohn, founder and CEO of Market Technologies.

The winners in other categories include Tradestation Securities, FXCM, eSignal and other recognized names in the financial industry.  To see the full listing of Winners, go to www.TraderPlanet.com/STAR

About Market Technologies (www.TraderTech.com)

Headquartered in Tampa Bay since its founding in 1979 by Louis B. Mendelsohn, Market Technologies is a fast-growing, Inc. 500 company and recognized world leader in market forecasting with trading software customers in more than 90 countries worldwide. Market Technologies researches and develops proprietary trend forecasting and market timing technologies that utilize artificial intelligence applied to intermarket and hurricaneomic analysis to forecast various commodity and financial markets throughout the world. These presently include, but are not limited to, stocks, stock indexes, ETFs, energies, interest rates, currencies, metals, grains, meats, softs and Forex, covering more than 600 world markets.

CONTACT: Marsha Jadoonath, +1-813-973-0496, [email protected]

SOURCE Market Technologies