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Global Forex Trading Partners With Strategy Runner to Automated Algorithms for Forex Trading

ADA, Mich., Dec. 1, 2006 — Global Forex Trading is pleased to announce that it has been chosen by Strategy Runner as the company’s first partner in the online currency trading market (forex). Online forex trading customers will have access to highperformance algorithmic trading architecture, based on Strategy Runner’s unique server–based technology and supported on the backend by GFT’s reliable and experienced forex dealing operation.

“We are constantly establishing high–quality partners to expand the variety of services we deliver to our trading customers,” said Gary Tilkin, president and CEO, GFT. “The Strategy Runner technology, coupled with GFT’s order execution capabilities, will provide automatic forex trading and order execution for customers who create their own rule–based trading strategies for the currency markets.”

Strategy Runner’s server-based technology gives forex customers access to the next generation of fully automated algorithmic trading by using seamless data integration tools to communicate between two separate software programs. This will allow forex traders, money managers, systems developers and signal vendors to easily automate strategies that have been created through TradeStation, Excel, Fix, Java or Visual Basic. These strategies can then be fully integrated to work with Strategy Runner’s platform, which executes forex trades through GFT.

“A real benefit of working with Strategy Runner is that the trade signals are automatically routed and reliably executed on GFT’s servers, which are located at fully redundant data centers,” said Muhammad Rasoul, executive vice president and COO, GFT. “This formula, combined with our reliable trade execution and over 99 percent uptime, is perfect for the 24–hour nature of the forex market.”

Strategy Runner’s multi–asset trading platform offers hands–free algorithm execution to augment GFT’s award–winning proprietary trading software. Strategy Runner’s automation tools provide secure and centralized distribution and monitoring of unlimited systems and signals across multiple accounts all in real–time.

“We are glad to offer our customers and strategy vendors the ability to trade forex through GFT,” said Dr. Anna Becker, president and CEO, Strategy Runner. “The company’s well–known reputation in the forex market for quality of service and technology made it an easy decision.”

About Strategy Runner

Strategy Runner’s powerful innovative server–based technology for fully automated algorithmic trading solutions integrates the needs of buy– and sell– side institutions to access, automate, distribute, and execute trading algorithms. It provides flexible customizable solutions for centralized secure distribution of broker–supplied algorithms over multiple assets, accounts and clearing firms.

Today, operating from offices in Chicago and Tel–Aviv, Strategy Runner has become one of the world’s leading providers of fully–automated trading solutions in the derivatives trading industry. The firm has over 5,000 clients through 15 major clearing houses. This year, Strategy Runner opened branches in Europe and Asia.

About GFT

Founded in 1997, Global Forex Trading (GFT) is a world–leading provider of real–time currency dealing, pricing and comprehensive services for retail and institutional foreign exchange traders. Serving a global customer base in more than 100 countries through its DealBook® 360 trading software and 24–hour dealing desk operation, GFT's world headquarters is based in Ada, Mich., with global offices located in Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Sydney, Australia and London (London office operated through GFT Global Markets UK Ltd.).

Global Forex Trading, Division of Global Futures and Forex, Ltd., is a registered futures commission merchant with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), a registered broker–dealer with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission, holds a license with Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) and holds a license with the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC). GFT Global Markets is authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. More information about GFT can be found at www.gftforex.com.

CONTACT:
Tim Gort
Manager of Marketing & Communications
Global Forex Trading
(616)942-3757 (tgort@gftforex.com)

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