Oster Communications Launches Trader's Source Magazine

Posted on April 9, 2004

Oster Communications has launched Trader's Source magazine. The new bimonthly magazine provides traders with coverage of global grains, livestock, softs, metals, energy, currencies, financials and stock index futures and cash markets. The inaugural issue of Trader's Source debuts with an initial circulation of 25,000 active traders

"We believe that Trader's Source fills a niche as a much-needed resource for traders who want to be better informed about the markets, improve their trading skills and profit from what they have learned," said Merril J. Oster, Trader's Source publisher and President of Oster Communications. "We want our readers to come away with a new "edge", angle, trading technique, or potential trade to check out based on what they have read in Trader's Source."

The team of Trader's Source editors and reporters are comprised of well known industry experts and authors. Additionally, each issue of the magazine features contributions from the OsterDowJones Commodity News staff from around the world and interviews with industry professionals who share their trading methods and philosophies. Mark Anderson of Cornerstone Investment Network in Chicago and Jon Matte of Defender Capital Management in Portland, Ore. are profiled in the current issue.

Merrill J. Oster is an international business journalist, publishing entrepreneur, and the majority owner of OsterDowJones Commodity News, which provides commodity and economic news to traders and risk managers around the world. His FutureSource company provides on-line presentation software, futures prices, charts and analysis to customers who trade futures worldwide.

Oster Communications is the parent of FutureSource and Futuresource.com, a futures industry market information and analysis software provider. Oster has founded several companies in the futures industry, including FutureSource, Professional Farmers of America, and Commodity Price Charts. He also published Futures magazine from 1976 to 1997.