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Hey Alex, good luck with it. Hope it goes well.
If you're not experienced about public speaking then be careful about asking
what they expect up front as it may panic you because you are not going to
deal with x and y.
If they are v new to TA then how about this to grab their attention. Start
off with a close up slide of a tick chart...meaningless dots and lines
etc...then zoom out to in timeframes until probably daily/weekly using
different slides and then start drawing a couple of trendlines. Initially
the chart will be meaningless but you can show them that just with a couple
of lines you can bring some order to it.
Show them that using every single oscillator is not going to help them...try
them all by all means as part of the learning process but as Super
says...they need to find out what works for them.
Not strictly TA but I'd have a hand out on risk management and also perhaps
show them how news affects different areas of the market. There's a great
ready made handout for this here:
http://www.thegoldandoilguy.com/Economic-Indicators.pdf
Hope this helps,
Crom
-----Original Message-----
From: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of superfragalist
Sent: 18 February 2010 20:39
To: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group] Re: Pedagogy - Audience Engagement Tricks
When I did seminars for financial planners with high net worth clients, I
used to open by telling them that after thousands of hours of studying the
market, TA, quantitative and fundamental analysis and trading techniques, I
had learned the insider secrets to getting rich.
Then I said that later in the day, around 4:00 pm, after I had given them
some basic explanations on managing high worth clients, I would reveal the
secrets on how they too could become rich.
They always listened very intently until 4:00 pm.
At around 3:55 to 3:59 pm someone in the audience would always remind me
that at 4:00 o'clock I had promised to explain the secrets.
So at around 4:01 I would tell them that the only secret to getting rich was
to spend thousands of hours studying the markets, learning to control their
emotions and understanding that nothing except hard work and knowledge, not
even TA, would make them rich. If it were that easy to make money, everyone
would be wealthy.
Right after I explained the "no secrets" except hard work, one or two of the
highest producers in the room would usually launch into how that was the
right approach and the only one that works. I even had a few of them
proclaim to the group that this was the best seminar they had ever taken,
despite the $3000 price.
In my audience evaluation surveys, around 98% of the responses were ok to
excellent. Only 2% found something to complain about. In my experience, no
matter what someone does, somewhere around 2% to 20% of the audience will be
less than pleased. Over the 25 years or so that I worked, I probably gave a
couple of hundred seminars to different groups on a variety of topics, and I
averaged 2% to 5% could have been better type responses, and 10% to 15% who
said it was the best presentation on the subject they had ever heard. That's
pretty normal in the presentation business. Basically, there's nothing
anyone can do about the 2% to 5%. No single flavor of tea works for
everyone.
Super
--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Alex Spiroglou <a.spiroglou@xxx>
wrote:
>
> This is probably a bit OT
> but I would like to pick the brains of the senior members of this list.
>
> I am giving a lecture (introductory) on TA, in London.
>
> However I would like to make the whole workshop,
> as interactive as possible.
>
> Would it be possible to provide some
> audience engagment tricks and tips please ?
>
> For example so far I have the following :
>
> 1. Introduction
> - Creating Credibility (presenter bio)
> - Know your audience (ask them about their experience on TA,
> and what they expect out of the seminar)
> - Any questions they would like to have answered during the seminar
>
> 2. During the Seminar
> - provide examples on markets of interest
> - pause for questions
> - etc
>
>
> any ideas would be appreciated
>
> rgds
> Alex
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Alex Spiroglou
>
>
>
> --
> Alex Spiroglou
>
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