My name is Jude Stewart, and I work in marketing for TradeKing (www.tradeking.com), a new online brokerage. I’m writing to explore a mutually beneficial partnership with your investment club.

TradeKing emphasizes the two factors which can make or break your club's long-term success:

      1. We lower your trading costs – and keep things simple. TradeKing offers fair and simple $4.95 trades to everyone, regardless of trading volume, with no hidden fees or account minimums. (Add 65c per options contract.)*

      2. We make it easy for investors to interact and learn from each other. TradeKing integrates new technologies like weblogs (“blogs”), so you can publish your own investment “diary” online – or review blogs from investors like yourself. Our education wiki let club members share comments and ideas with each other, in an ever-growing encyclopedia of real-world investment knowledge.

We also make staying up-to-date easy. Our free newsreader brings financial news from your favorite blogs and news sources straight to you in a single screen. No more time-consuming web searches to find out the latest on your stock or option.

We are very interested in working with your club help make online investing a vibrant educational experience for all your members.

In particular, you might be interested in our upcoming World Series of Option Trading. Individuals or clubs will trade on a minimum investment - likely between $2000 - $5000 - and the group generating the biggest return after 3 months will receive substantial recognition. The World Series of Option Trading offers a great way to learn to trade a position as a group, with an added incentive to keep things entertaining.

We’d love to get your input on the World Series of Option Trading, as well as other ways TradeKing could help your club.

Let me know if you’d be interested to talk further by phone. We’re eager to make TradeKing a key tool for investment clubs to invest smarter and learn from each other.

All best, Jude Stewart, Marketing, TradeKing (www.tradeking.com)