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The CSTA is a not for profit organization.
The Canadian Society of Technical Analysts presents:
Elements of Successful Trading
ú Trading Psychology
ú Risk Management Techniques
ú Event Probability Trading
ú Real Time Technical Indicators
ú Systematic Trading
October 25-26, 1997.
Sheraton Centre, Toronto
Sponsored by:
Programme
October, 25, 1997
8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-10:30 Trading with Market Profile
Speaker: Joel M. Marver
10:15-10:30 Coffee
Sponsor: CIBC Wood Gundy
10:30-12:00 Trading Psychology
Speaker: Adrienne Laris Toghraie
12:00-1:45 Lunch - Investing in Russia
Speaker: Dr. Alex Elder
Sponsor: Technical Data, Boston
1:45-2:45 Developing and Testing Trading Systems
Speaker: Nelson Freeburg
2:45-3:00 Coffee
Sponsor: CQG
3:00-5:00 New Technical Indicators
Speaker: Tom DeMark
5:00-5:30 Discussion Panel
Moderator: Larry M. Berman, CIBC Wood Gundy
Panel:
Joel M. Marver
Adrienne Laris Toghraie
Nelson Freeburg
Tom DeMark
5:30 -6:30 Cocktails and h'orderves
Dinner on own
October, 26, 1997
9:00-9:30 Event Probability Trading
Speaker: Anthony D. Kolton.
9:30-10:30 Trading Psychology
Speaker: Dr. Alexander Elder
10:30-10:45 Coffee
10:45-12:00 Technical Analysis of US Bond Futures; It's not what you
think!
Speaker: James Bianco
12:00-1:45 Lunch - Elliott Wave and Cycles in the Canadian Bond Market
Speaker: Nina Cooper
1:45-3:00 The New Technical Trader
Speaker: Tuschar Chande
3:00-3:15 Coffee
3:15-4:30 Cybernetic Trading Strategies
Speaker: Murray Ruggiero
5:30-6:00 Discussion Panel
Moderator: Mike Herring, Nesbitt Burns
Panel:
James Bianco
Tony D. Kolton
Dr. Alex Elder
Tuschar Chande
Murray Ruggiero
6:00 Conference Finishes
Speaker Profiles:
Tushar Chande PhD: is Vice President, Tuscarora Capital Management.
Mr. Chande is a contributing editor to Technical Analysis of Stocks &
Commodities magazine, has been a CTA, and is the co-author of The New
Technical Trader, and the author of Beyond Technical Analysis. Mr.
Chande holds nine U.S. patents in the areas of high-power lasers and
optical fibers.
Mr. Chande will discuss his Market Thrust concept from The New
Technical Trader, and personal beliefs in the context of system
design. In addition, Mr. Chande will give an overview of Data
Scrambling, a technique that he has created to provide unlimited
amounts of data for system testing.
Nelson Freeburg: is the editor and publisher of the market research
newsletter Formula Research. Mr. Freeburg is an expert on trading
system design and development. His newsletter is widely read by
institutional money managers and private investors, including John
Bollinger, Ned Davis, Peter Eliades, Norman Fosback, and many others
Mechanical timing formulas offer many advantages over intuitive `seat
of the pants' trading. Yet, one of the pitfalls in model building is
the danger of curve-fitting. Mr. Freeburg will show how techniques
like walk-forward testing, out-of-sample validation, and parameter
sensitivity checks can help build robust, winning trading systems. In
the process, Mr. Freeburg will disclose some of his favorite trading
systems for stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies.
Adrienne Laris Toghraie: President, Trading on Target, and Enriching
Life Seminars. Ms. Toghraie is an internationally recognized authority
in the field of human development and a master practitioner of
Neuro-Linguistic Programming for
the business and financial communities. She is the founder of Trading
on Target and Enriching Life Seminars, two companies dedicated to
helping traders, sales people, and others to dramatically increase
profits and success in all areas of life. Adrienne's articles have
been published in Stocks & Commodities, Futures, and others. Adrienne
is the co-author of the book, The Wining Edge. Trading 102,
co-authored by Sunny Harris, will be published this year by Wiley.
Ms. Toghraie will be discussing Conquering Sabotage Traps in Your
Trading. In the seminar, Ms. Toghraie will discuss:
The 5 symptoms of a trading saboteur.
The 3 reasons traders sabotage themselves.
The 10 sabotage traps into which you can fall. How to avoid falling
into the sabotage traps. How to pull yourself out of the traps, if you
fall.
Murray Ruggiero: Ruggiero Associates. Murray Ruggiero is a
contributing editor to Futures magazine, and has published more than
four dozen articles in the 1990s. Mr. Ruggiero is the editor and
publisher of the Inside Advantage newsletter, and the author of the
recently published Cybernetic Trading Strategies. In addition, Mr.
Ruggiero is the inventor of a patented method for embedding a neural
network into a spreadsheet. He
will be discussing material from his new book "Cybernetic Trading
Strategies," including intermarket analysis, statistics, fuzzy logic,
and neural nets.
Tony D. Kolton: Founder and President of Logical Information Machines,
a computer and software database company that produces the Market
Information Machine (MIM). The MIM allows you to easily pose historic
queries using any number of technical, fundamental, and/or economic
factors. Prior to founding LIM in 1988, Mr. Kolton was a member of
both the CBOT and CBOE, and owned a private trading firm. Mr. Kolton
is a Certified Public Accountant and has a Juris Doctor degree in law
and a Masters of Science degree in taxation.
Tony is a former floor trader who developed an event trading database
to develop trading strategies. His software is used by most major
dealers worldwide.
Tom DeMark: is President of Market Studies Inc., a technical analysis
consultant to numerous financial institutions including Leon Cooperman
and Omega Advisors, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund. Author of the
best selling book, "The New Science of Technical Analysis" (Wiley,
1994) and his new book, "New Market Timing Techniques" (Wiley, 1997) .
Mr. DeMark will disclose his new technical analysis tools.
Joel Marver, is the Chief Technical Analyst at Technical Data. His
areas of expertise include Market Profile analysis and the development
of intermediate- and long-term technical trading strategies. Joel
attended Indiana University and holds BA., MBA. and JD. degrees. Mr.
Marver will show the evolution of Market Profile and how to use it in
fixed income and foreign exchange trading strategies.
James A. Bianco: is Director of Research at Arbor Trading Group Inc.
Arbor is an institutional fixed income brokerage firm located in
Barrington, Illinois. Since November 1990, he has been producing
Arbor's fixed income commentaries with a circulation of hundreds of
portfolio managers and traders. Jim's commentaries are primarily
devoted to the fixed income markets with special emphasis on: money
flow characteristics of primary dealers, mutual funds, hedge funds,
futures traders, banks, and institutional investors.
Prior to joining Arbor, Jim spent five years in New York City with
several prominent investment banking firms. He was a Market
Strategist in equity and fixed income research at UBS Securities and
Equity Technical Analyst at First Boston and Shearson Lehman Brothers.
He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) and a member of the Market
Technicians Association (MTA. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in
Finance from Marquette University (1984) and an MBA from Fordham
University (1989).
Dr. Alex Elder: Dr. Alexander Elder is a trader based in New York
City. He is the author of Trading for a Living and the Study Guide
for Trading for a Living, considered modern classics among traders.
Dr. Elder was trained as a psychiatrist, providing him with a unique
insight into the psychology of trading. In his books and articles he
clearly explains the psychology of winning and losing, as well as the
steps one has to take to succeed in trading.
Dr. Elder's books and articles, as well as his book and software
reviews in FUTURES and other magazines have established him as one of
today's leading experts on technical analysis. In a year-long series
of articles in FUTURES Dr. Elder has applied his concepts of technical
analysis to day-trading.
Dr. Elder was born in the USSR and escaped to the US after jumping a
Soviet ship in Africa. In recent years, after the collapse of
communism, he has been traveling to Russia to trade in its emerging
markets and teach American methods to local traders. He is a member
of The Russian Exchange and serves as its representative in North
America.
General Information:
Hotel Accommodations are available at a rate of $169/ppd plus taxes.
Please call the Sheraton Centre at 416-361-1000 to reserve your room.
Make sure to ask for the CSTA rate.
Registration Form
Registration fee by October 18:
CSTA Members $250
Non-Members $350
If Space is available, the cost at the door will be:
CSTA Member $295
Non-Member $395
Price for Non-Members include 1997/98 annual membership.
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Please make cheque payable to: "The Canadian Society of Technical
Analysts" and mail to: CSTA, Suite 2000, 390 Bay Street, Toronto,
Ontario M5H 2Y2
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