About my Tools

MD Trader from Trading Technologies
CQG and TT XStudy charting software
Reuters
R.A.N. Squawk
Capital Daily Newsletters, R.A.N. Squawk Calendar

As for news, I usually check the ft.com every morning and the Bloomberg website. They have a nice calendar, that I think is quite handy. It helps me get a good picture of what is expected in terms of economic figure announcements. It shows little graps for the trend in the figure and gives reliable figures for the expectations` range and median.

More from here: http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/ecalendar/index.html