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Only Thomson offers a desktop solution specifically designed for hedge fund traders. The integration of our industry-leading sources for trading and financial analytics - including Thomson AutEx, Thomson Baseline, Thomson StreetEvents and Thomson First Call - all within one desktop results in the most streamlined workflow solution, allowing you to make smarter decisions faster.

Thomson Hedge Fund Trading empowers the trader with sophisticated analytics and greater efficiency in finding pools of liquidity to generate credible trading ideas.

With Thomson ONE Hedge Fund Trading, you can:

• Make more educated trading and investment decisions.
• Generate ideas and act quickly to identify trading partners.
• Get instant access in stocks with market-moving insight.
  
• Find comprehensive, timely, and accurate fundamental information commingled with real-time pre-trade analytics.
• Access our industry-leading sources for trading and financial analytics, including Thomson AutEx, Thomson Baseline, Thomson StreetEvents and Thomson First Call, all in a single workflow solution.

Why choose Thomson ONE Hedge Fund Trading?

• Industry-Leading Sources: Our integration of trading and financial analytics lets buy-side traders make smarter decisions faster.
• Flex Monitor: Get AutEx IOI's, BlockDATA, Thomson Baseline, Thomson StreetEvents, and Thomson First Call notes pushed directly to your desktop, so your eyes never leave the market.
• Write customized mathematical formulas, set basic alerts, and easily monitor trading strategies in real time to better time entry and exit points.
• Evaluate intraday stock reactions to earnings announcements to improve stocks performance predictions.
  

• Thomson AutEx: Quickly identify market liquidity and potential trading partners from the largest global financial network.
  
• Thomson Baseline: Easily identify financial trends and analyze company performance with graphical representations of fundamental analyses.
• Thomson StreetEvents Calendar and Guidance: Make educated trading and investment decisions with market-moving events information and customized events calendars and alerts, all linked directly through your monitoring tools.
• Thomson First Call Research and Estimates: Gain better insight into your stocks with real-time and historical analyst earnings estimates, consensus estimates, operating actuals, and expected reporting dates, all from the industry's leading source of real-time broker research.

To maximize Thomson ONE’s performance, Thomson Financial  recommends the hardware and software components listed below. Actual system performance may vary depending on the feature set, number of symbols monitored and general market activity.

These system requirements assume that Thomson ONE will be running with minimal additional activity on your system. When selecting hardware, consider the use of additional applications, as this will affect system performance.

For security, Thomson Financial’s Internet price servers reject HTTP requests from IP addresses that do not match the source IP used during initial login to Thomson ONE. If you are using a load balancing solution, please ensure all server requests maintain a consistent source IP address.

All PCs running Thomson ONE should use PCI LAN and video cards, running the latest drivers for each.

Hardware Requirements

• Required available hard disk space for all solutions: 500MB
  Note: Thomson Financial highly recommends setting the Temporary Internet Files folder to use at least 100MB of disk space.
• Recommended for all Thomson ONE Solutions: Windows XP or Windows 2000 (With the latest Services Pack, Pentium 4 2.8 GHZ, 1GB RAM 1,2

Software Requirements

• Microsoft Internet Explorer - 6.0 or above
• Sun Microsystems’ Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition
  (J2SE)3 - 1.4 or above
• Microsoft Windows Installer - 2.0 or above
• Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC)4 - 2.6 or above
• Microsoft .NET Framework - 1.1
• Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Run-Time - Service Pack 5
• Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) - 3.0 and 4.0
• Microsoft Windows Script - 5.1 or above
• PDFcamp5 - 1.75 or above
• Adobe Acrobat Reader6 - 5.0 or above
• Adobe Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Viewer - 3.0 or above

1Thomson Financial highly recommends more memory and a faster processor to optimize performance for power users, as well as users running other applications with Thomson ONE. Minimum memory and processor requirements assume no additional applications will be running with Thomson ONE.
2 Thomson ONE requires an Intel Pentium III or above processor with SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions) instruction set support. If the SSE instruction set is not available or disabled, Thomson ONE returns the following error message: “Thomson ONE cannot run on this computer because the processor does not support the SSE instruction set. Please verify that your computer meets the minimum system requirements.”
3 Thomson Financial recommends Sun Microsystems’ Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.4 or above for users to take full advantage of specific Thomson ONE features and components (i.e., MMD Interactive, Stock Reports+).
4 MDAC is required for Thomson ONE with BETALink.
5 PDFcamp is required for email capture functionality in News 3.4 and above.
6 If Internet Explorer 7.0 is installed, Acrobat 7.0 or above is required.

Note: Thomson Financial follows Microsoft and third party product life cycles leveraging Microsoft technology and industry standards. Thomson Financial hardware and software requirements are subject to change without notice. For support or compatibility with future third party software with Thomson ONE, please refer to release notices for the latest information.