Tampa Bay, FL, February 4, 2013 – TraderPlanet.com, the financial social-networking site for active traders and investors, announced the winners of the 2012 Superior TradingAnd Resource (STAR) Awards.
In 2009 TraderPlanet began the STAR Awards program as a result of suggestions made by community members. The overall objective remains that as TraderPlanet is an independent educational company without a product or service to sell, we are uniquely equipped to help traders and investors through research to sift through the many products that are available. This helps traders to more quickly identify products that fit their needs and helps them become more financially successful, while avoiding products that wouldn’t help achieve their goals. TraderPlanet does not assess any fees to submit products for consideration nor do finalists incur expenses to participate in the competition.
Each year TraderPlanet honors innovators in the financial industry for exemplary work in areas such as publishing, brokerage services, trading courses, data, and trading software. The finalists inspire and challenge traders, contribute to the industry’s knowledge base, and extend their work beyond academia into real-world practice.
The TraderPlanet STAR program comprises individual reviews of products and services that provide exemplary performance and value for traders. Vendors competed in their respective categories for votes registered by the TraderPlanet membership and community visitors that began on Nov. 1, 2012 and concluded Jan. 31, 2013. The winners for the 2012 STAR Awards are:
| STAR Category | Company | Product |
| Blog | See It Market, LLC | See It Market Blog |
| Book | Buff Dormier/Financial Times Press | Investing With Volume Analysis |
| Brokerage | FXCM, Inc. | FXCM |
| Data | Commodity Research Bureau | CRB Data Center |
| Live Trading Room | Gap Edge Trading | Gap Trading Room |
| Magazine | Technical Analysis, Inc. | Stocks & Commodities Magazine |
| Newsletter | Online Trading Academy | Lessons From the Pros |
| Trading Courses | Pristine Capital Holdings, Inc. | Trading the Pristine Method |
| Trading Platform | eToro | Open Book |
| Trading Software | Market Technologies | VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis Software |
“The competition gets more intense each year,” said Lane J. Mendelsohn, founder and president of TraderPlanet.com. “Having seventy finalists this year amplifies the importance of this awards program. The votes that our winners accrued are an astounding testament to their technology, ingenuity and vision. We congratulate every finalist’s achievements.”
Further details and information about the 2012 TraderPlanet STAR Awards may be found at http://www.traderplanet.com/star_awards.
About TraderPlanet.com
TraderPlanet.com, an Inc. 500 company headquartered in the Tampa Bay, Fla., area is a social-networking site that provides individual traders of all skill levels a one-stop destination for financial information and trading tools. TraderPlanet.com is the only financial-networking site of its kind that offers its members a full suite of market-data feeds, advanced technical tools and extensive analyst commentary across asset classes, while enabling members to give back to the broader world community through gift giving to charitable causes. TraderPlanet.com’s highly interactive, multimedia platform promotes a free-flowing exchange of ideas through questions, answers and commentary geared toward improving trading strategies and investment performance.
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