| ATAA Blast! Newsletter #195 – October 2026 | Dear ~~first_name~~
Here's the latest edition of the ATAA Blast! Newsletter, with the very latest new ATAA news. We do hope you find the content useful, and interesting. Feel free to send us feedback because we are always looking for ways to improve things. | In this Blast! edition you can see the following, with links for an easy and speedy go-to to the relevant section below:
- ATAA National President's Update for this month, and an Executive Summary from the recent board meeting, to help keep members informed about the national board discussions and deliberations.
- The latest ATAA Website Resource Library updates for the last month or so, including uploaded speaker presentation slide decks, and video recording of the presentation.
- Update from the national board - on a couple of topics.
- Trading Expert Series update (formerly known as the National Speaker Series) of online presentations - The next one is in early November - just a few days away. See below for more details. This will be our fifth session in this very successful series, and session recordings are up in the ATAA Resource Library.
- ATAA Conference - The ATAA 2026 Online Conference in August was very successful, and planning for the in-person event in May next year is well underway.
- Updates from the ATAA Chapters and SIGs: Included below are updates for some Chapters and SIGs. Information below also includes the RealTest Coders Online Workshop, and some chapters.
- IFTA information update: Both the IFTA Update newsletter and the annual IFTA Journal are jam-packed full of great articles on technical analysis. The September IFTA Update Newsletter is available to download, and the annual IFTA Journal - edition 27 - is now available. BTW - The IFTA 2026 conference was in London in early October - so you've missed it.
- TECHNICAL ANALYSIS article - This month's article is all about Exit Strategies. Given the ructions in the markets around the world, and the upcoming USA midterm elections on 3rd November, and the US quarterly reporting season getting underway any day now, and the Victorian State election in late November, there is a certain amount of unease and unknown, causing many traders to be more cautious than usual in the markets. This is often apparent with lower trading volumes on most days.
- And another thing - About ATAA emails and to beware the spam emails.
- Detailed benefits for ATAA members. Just in case you are missing something with your membership.
| I do hope you find this Blast! newsletter useful and interesting reading; but do feel free to tell us what you really think, and how we can improve it.
Robert B Brain
Blast! Newsletter Editor
ATAA Marketing Director
(and ATAA Life Member)
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From the President's Desk – October 2026
Our efforts to raise the ATAA's profile and attract new members are continuing. You may have noticed that we now have a much more active presence on X (formerly Twitter), with regular announcements of upcoming meetings and events, as well as advertising campaigns promoting ATAA membership. This is part of our ongoing work to reach a wider audience of traders and investors who are interested in technical analysis.
Our Trading Expert Series continues on Wednesday 4th November, with a new presentation by Robert Carver. We encourage members to take advantage of this opportunity to hear from another experienced trading professional. See more details below.
With our Annual General Meeting approaching on Wednesday 18th November, nominations for positions on the ATAA Board remain open. We are keen to welcome members who can contribute their experience, ideas and time to help run, promote and further develop the Association. In recognition of their contribution, active directors receive a 50% discount on ATAA membership and National Conference fees, applicable to both existing directors and new nominees who serve actively for at least six months.
We are also looking to appoint a part-time Executive Officer (EO) to assist with the smooth running and further development of the ATAA. Ideally, we are seeking someone with experience in project management, executive support or a senior coordination role, preferably within a not-for-profit organisation or professional association. The EO will report to the National President and work closely with our Administration Officer, Board members and Working Group Chairs.
If you believe you have the necessary skills, experience and time available, I would be pleased to hear from you and provide a detailed position description.
I look forward to seeing many of you at our upcoming events and at the AGM in November.
Jim Haralambidis
ATAA National President
| Executive Summary – ATAA Board Meeting (October 2026)
The ATAA October Board meeting was necessarily postponed and has been rescheduled for Wednesday 21 October 2026. Consequently, there is no Board Meeting Executive Summary for this month's Blast! Newsletter. | ATAA 2026 AGM - Wednesday 18 November 2026, online. The 3-year term for some directors will be up, requiring them to retire or re-nominate. There are some vacancies on the national board. If you have some ideas, or would like to help steer the ATAA for the next year or two, then look out for the Director Nomination forms which will be due to be submitted about a month before the AGM (that's any day now). You can download the Director Nomination From from our website here.
Robert B Brain (ATAA director)
| Your position in the market is not developing – Would you sell it? - You might be holding a position in the market in the hope that the share price will appreciate, and give you a profit at some time in the not-so-distant future. One recent example of a non-performer is Wisetech Global - see the weekly price chart below from September 2024, with bad news in February 2025, then an apparent recovery, then a downtrend from August 2025. Would you have held it?
However, sometimes your share holding does not increase in value as you expected - sometimes for weeks! As a result, your money is locked up with a non-performing asset (that's opportunity clost). What can you do about it?
One option is to keep holding the position, and hope that things will improve.
Another option is to sell some or all of your holding, and invest your funds elsewhere. And hopefully your next choice will be more profitable. This is regarded as a Time Stop. The $64,000 question is: At what point do you take this action? Based on anecdotal feedback, many traders use the time period of between 3 and 5 weeks (that's 15 to 25 trading days).
By selling down a non-performing holding, you are reducing the opportunity cost of continuing to hold while it is not performing.
Of course, any intended actions in this regard ought to be documented in your Trading Strategy, and tested to a point so that you have confidence that it will work in practice.
Robert B Brain (ATAA director) |  | The ATAA Meetings - Chapters and SIGs - For anybody visiting our ATAA website and looking for information about our regular in-person and online meetings, we have a dedicated web page. We are hopeful that the information is current and correct; but if it isn't, please let us know and we will update it. You can see the web page from the ATAA website main menu: Meetings > Chapter & SIG info. A screenshot of a portion of the web page is shown below. Also, if you want to advertise your chapter or SIG meeting on Eventbrite (to improve the public visibility), see the notes in the July edition of the Blast.
Robert B Brain (ATAA Marketing and Member Services director) |  | ATAA Website Resource Library Updates - recordings September 2026
HUGE and FANTASTIC RESOURCE for members – Our ATAA Resource Library has many presentations and recordings going back to 2008, as well as hundreds of technical articles in the ATAA Journal documents. You can drill down on these using the website menu: Resources > Presentations by Date. It's a real gold mine of information, much of which is still current.
An alternative way to find something specific on a particular topic is to search the library using the menu option: Resources > Search Resource Library.
Note: The August ATAA Online Conference was recorded, and the six recordings are available to those who registered to attend the conference. Specific links to view these recordings were included in an email to all conference attendees on 24 August, so refer to that email.
The materials recently added to the Resource Library include chapter presentations and the last Trading Expert Series speaker:
- Thursday 10 September - Melbourne Chapter meeting
- Jim Haralambidis - "A trading practitioner's overview of the 2025/2026 Financial Year".
- Joanne Stuhmcke - "Weekly RSI for ETF investing".
- Tuesday 22 September - STANZ Online Meeting
- Mike Smith - "AI for Traders – Evolved".
- April Trading Expert Series:
- Sat 11 April: Marsten Parker (RealTest) - "Systematic Strategy Development in the Age of AI".
All of these items can be found from the ATAA website menu: Resources > Presentations by Date. Make sure to browse the earlier recordings in the Resource Library, because you never know what you've been missing. And you can also search the Resource Library by keyword. If your local chapter or SIG has a video recording, or a (PowerPoint) slide deck of a recent session, then it can also be added to our library collection. | ATAA huge resource - searching the website: In case you missed this recently, we've added a new feature to facilitate your searching of the enormous resources in the ATAA website. It is a Google-powered AI search. ATAA members can find it from the menu option: Resources > Google-AI Website Search. Try it now. Go to that web page, and type in a keyword or two.
Robert Brain (ATAA Marketing and Member Services Director) |
ATAA National Board updates
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ATAA Value Proposition: In case you missed this recently, the national board recently adopted a Value Proposition statement for the ATAA. If anyone asks you what the ATAA is, you can tell them, and you can use it in your own correspondence and advertising:
The ATAA is Australia’s leading independent community
for people who want to learn how to
trade and invest using market analysis.
Whether you’re just starting out or building confidence,
the ATAA gives you clear education, real-world insights,
and a supportive community,
helping you understand the markets, avoid common mistakes,
and make better trading decisions.
Robert Brain (ATAA Marketing Director) | ATAA Trading Expert Series – Markets, Models and Mindsets | ATAA's Trading Expert Series
This series of free but invaluable webinars took a break in the last few months, so as to avoid distractions from the recent ATAA online Conference in August. The next session is now scheduled for early November.
Wednesday 4 November 2026 - Robert Carver -
"The Three Pitfalls of Trading: Over-Leveraging, Over-Trading and Over-Fitting"
Most traders don’t fail because they lack a clever idea. They fail for three reasons: they use too much leverage, they trade too often, and they fool themselves with their own backtests. Trading itself might be an art — but avoiding these three pitfalls is definitely a science. In this 90-minute session, former AHL hedge fund manager and best-selling author Robert Carver introduces theoretically grounded but genuinely practical methods for avoiding all three errors.
About Robert Carver – Rob built AHL’s fundamental global macro strategy and went on to manage the fund’s multi-billion-dollar fixed income portfolio before leaving in 2013 to trade his own capital. He has since written five books on systematic trading and portfolio construction, and teaches systematic trading strategies at Queen Mary, University of London. Few people are better placed to explain where the real risks sit — and what to do about them.
More information:- This will be a 90 minute session commencing at 7:30pm (AEDT) on the Wednesday. Cost? Free for ATAA members and non-members. But you need to register.
For more event details, and the reasons you need to attend, and to register to attend, head to:
| ATAA Conference Working Group Update | Conference Working Group update
The next ATAA in-person conference is pencilled in for 15th-16th May next year in Melbourne. The team is currently working on securing one of our shortlisted venues, and we are also looking for speaker suggestions! If you have an idea for someone you would like to see present to the conference, please send your suggestion by email to conference-wg-2026@ataa.asn.au
Alan Clement
(ATAA Director)
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| | | Why join the ATAA? (our value proposition)
The ATAA is Australia’s leading independent community
for people who want to learn how to
trade and invest using market analysis.
Whether you’re just starting out or building confidence,
the ATAA gives you clear education, real-world insights,
and a supportive community,
helping you understand the markets, avoid common mistakes,
and make better trading decisions.
| CHAPTER and Special Interest Group (SIG) news and updates
| ATAA Chapters, SIGs and Network groups
For the benefit of ATAA members everywhere, the ATAA has a number of: Chapters, and Special Interest Groups, and Network Groups. Current financial members are free and welcome to participate in any of these. We are hopeful that all of these groups will submit some information for publication in the Blast! News from time to time, to help our hundreds of readers understand more about the opportunities and benefits for ATAA members.
For the latest meeting information, check the ATAA website for details, and also scroll down the website home page to see the latest announcements, presentations and updates to the resource library.
| | ATAA Chapters (alpha order) meeting monthly
- Adelaide
- Brisbane
- Canberra
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Sydney
| | SIGs and Networks (and contact names)
- Melbourne Quant SIG (Mohamed Nasher)
- RealTest Coders (online) Workshop (Chris Meakin, Robert Grigg)
- MetaStock Users SIG (Darryl Nagel)
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The Canberra Chapter continues to take advantage of our local trading and presenting talent. During the September Meeting, Gabriel presented the portfolio competition with volatility being the clear winner. Chris Meakin and Dave Roberts continue to dominate the leader board at a time of multiple factors influencing the markets.
In terms of market timing, it was an opportune time for Gabriel to do a presentation on how traders can participate in recent IPO’s by adopting Darryl Guppy’s countback method. Given IPOs have no data, Gabriel presented a method of participating in recent IPOs to the market in the weeks post entrance in a plausible technical and analytical method.
Members using the method outlined by Gabriel would be happy with a 13% gain over the last month on Space X. The method may continue to do well with the upcoming Firmus and Anthropic IPOs.
After 5 years in the role of Canberra Chapter President, I am stepping down due to travel and other commitments in 2027. I have thoroughly enjoyed organising and meeting some talented presenters over the years and participating in our monthly meetings and dinners.
The committee which has had some personnel changes over the years have been incredibly supportive and I thank all of the committee members over the years for providing some great ideas for presenters and for the personal support they have given me. I would also like to thank Gabriel, Bruce and Chris for their regular, high-quality presentations that ensure everyone is in tune with the markets and rule-based trading methods.
I now live three and a half hours away on the Far South Coast of NSW and plan to continue travelling to Canberra for as many meetings as I can get to.
If a Canberra member would like to do the role, with a very supportive committee and committed regular and semi-regular attendees, contact me for a handover. Our Eastlake venue has been booked already for 2027.
Good trading and good health.
Mark Gleeson
(ATAA Canberra Chapter President)
mobile: 0417 334 223
[The Canberra Chapter generally meets on the third Tuesday each month.]
| | RealTest Coders online Workshop
latest news | | |
September’s RealTest Coders workshop (operating under the Melbourne Quant SIG) was well attended with 19 registrants and 12 participants.
The meeting had:
- A discussion on using SetupScore: Random(), and how best to reconcile backtest results using this strategy element, along with MaxSameSym and Combined.
- A discussion was also held on:
- Tactical Asset Portfolios
- Using Python to download data from FRED (St Louis Fed Reserve)
- ICSA/unemployment data as a component of a regime filter
- Using New Skills with Claude
The October meeting is currently open discussion - come along with any ideas or critical challenges. The meetings are aimed at competent users of RealTest, but new users and intending users are more than welcome to join. A number of participants have formed small ‘coding buddy’ groups (2-4 users) to develop and code up strategies collaboratively, and work on maximizing the use of Claude AI and Claude Code with RealTest.
[Usually meets online on the second Monday of the month.] | | MetaStock User Group SIG
latest news | | |
Beyond the MACD: Backtesting and Finding High-Probability Trading Systems
ATAA MetaStock User Group – Online Webinar
Saturday, 24 October 2026 | 12 noon (Sydney time)
Presenter: Jeffrey Gibby, MetaStock
TITLE: Beyond the MACD: Backtesting and Finding High-Probability Systems: Stop Guessing. Start Testing. Find the Strategy That Fits Your Trading Style.
With thousands of technical indicators available, how do traders identify strategies that work and suit their trading style and risk tolerance?
Join MetaStock expert Jeffrey Gibby for a practical webinar exploring how objective trading rules and systematic backtesting can help traders make more informed decisions.
Discover how to:
- Understand MACD signals, momentum and divergence.
- Backtest and compare trading strategies using historical market data.
- Evaluate performance through profit factors, win/loss ratios and drawdowns.
- Use intraday and daily scanning to identify potential trading opportunities..
About the Presenter
Jeffrey Gibby brings over 29 years of experience with MetaStock, specialising in financial market technology, technical analysis and trader education.
Whether you are a beginner or an experienced trader, this webinar offers practical insights into developing and evaluating rules-based trading strategies.
| Our monthly in-person meetings at the Arcadia Hotel in South Yarra continue to attract a reasonable audience, with the attendees enjoying the free finger food during the networking session before 6pm, as well as the speakers, and more networking and juicy discussion after the meeting proper, when a few people stay for dinner. As a reminder, the benefits of meeting in-person in South Yarra include:
- Invaluable networking (or "common gossip") from 5.15pm to 6pm (including free finger food),
- The interactions in the room during the broadcast session 6-8pm, and
- Further networking and guest speaker mingling over dinner after 8pm.
Don’t forget that public transport (tram) runs past the hotel front door, the train station is only 700m away, and there is ample car parking around the corner and nearby. And if you see any of our committee/council members below, please thank them for their invaluable contributions in helping to run our hybrid meetings, and make sure that we get a quality video recording to edit and upload to the ATAA Resource Library on the website.
Robert Brain
ATAA Melb Chapter President and interim Secretary
(for the Council team: Paul Ash, Jim Haralambidis, Keith Mundy, Tony Hambling, Tony Leonard, Robert Grigg, Mohamed Nasher). | We have a total of six chapters around Australia, as well as several Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in which members can participate. You can see a list of the six chapters and their office-bearers on the website - use the menu option: ATAA Overview > Current Office-Bearers > Chapter Councillors > Subcommittees. See the ATAA website for latest meeting and event details.
- Adelaide Chapter - Generally meets in-person on the third Wednesday of the month.
- Perth Chapter - Generally meets on the third Thursday of the month.
- Brisbane Chapter - Generally meets on the second Saturday of the month.
- Sydney chapter - Generally meets on the third Monday of the month.
- MetaStock Users SIG - Contact Darryl Nagel.
- RealTest Coders Workshop (sub-group of the Quant SIG) - Meets online, generally on the second Monday of each month at 8:00 pm. EST (to give members in western states a better chance of attending). SIG Coordinators: Chris Meakin and Robert Grigg.
| IFTA Update Newsletter - The IFTA Update is a quarterly newsletter, reaching more than 7,000+ IFTA colleagues worldwide. It is a great tool for communicating and advertising to the technical analysis community worldwide. The September issue (Vol 33 Issue 3) can can be downloaded here (this PDF is 26 pages and 6.7MB). In this issue:
- President's Report to Colleagues
- Member News, and information about STA (United Kingdom)
- Congratulations New CFTes
- Congratulations New MFTA
- 2026 IFTA Board of Directors nominations
- Education Lounge articles:-
- 'What Spider-Man's Blockbuster Comeback Could Mean for the Global economy and Financial Markets'
- 'Technical Analysis in an AI-Driven Market: What Should Never Change'.
- 'From Technical Analysis to AI-Native Quant: Preserving Human Judgment in Systematic Trading'.
- and more.
| About IFTA (International Federation of Technical Analysis) - It is the umbrella organisation for Technical Analyst societies around the world. See a list of IFTA member societies in the IFTA Update Newsletter.
IFTA webinars: See the latest information about up-coming and past webinars on the IFTA website. | IFTA Journal (27)
The 2027 IFTA (annual) Journal is now available for you to download from the IFTA website here . (It's 119 pages and 20 megabytes in size - quite large). This issue is jam-packed full of great articles on several topics including:
- Dow Theory - The founding rules of Technical Analysis
- Discussion about Time Horizon.
- Trend identification with several chart indicator examples including: Bollinger Bands, Directional Movement, Ichimoku Cloud.
- A very detailed technical article: 'Prediction is Very Difficult: Especially if it's About the Financial Markets! (Part III) – A rigorous evaluation of statistical forecasting methods and their comparative effectiveness'.
- An article: 'The Reliability of MACD and RSI Crossovers During Geopolitical and Economic Crises Events: A Multi-Asset Technical Study'.
- Plus more technical articles.
- Tributes and In Memoriam: Constance "Connie" M Brown, and John J Murphy.
| | | IFTA and ATAA members - ATAA members are automatically affiliate members of the International Federation of Technical Analysts. ATAA membership gives you access to IFTA resources including: certification programs, educational events and networking opportunities, including participation in the IFTA Conferences. The information below is the latest update from IFTA.
IFTA Update (quarterly newsletter) - The IFTA Update is a quarterly newsletter that is available to members of the ATAA. | The ATAA Elevator Pitch:
Join the ATAA to improve your understanding of how to
invest or trade successfully in the financial markets
focusing on the correct use and application of Technical Analysis
(if someone asks you what the ATAA does, simply tell them this) | |
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
and Trading/Investing Tips
| | | Exit Strategies - Do you need one? Are they useful? | With the current market ructions, and unknowns, it can be difficult to be profitable in the current market environment. And it can be even harder if you hold on to a losing position, or if a winning position is starting to look doubtful.
This article offers an introduction and insight into some useful exit strategies, including the use of traditional technical analysis indicators, which can be scanned for in most charting software packages. If you don't currently have an exit strategy, then see the introduction paragraphs below which try to convince you that a good exit strategy is imperative - especially in the current market climate.
Introduction - Firstly, remember why we buy / sell shares:- to make money and be profitable, or to wile away our day because it is fun. But why might we exit a position? There are several reasons, including:
- For a new investment position, the price has fallen, and our investment decision on this occasion was not a good one, so we sell based on our pre-determined exit strategy or a simple Stop Loss approach.
- The money is needed elsewhere, so we liquidate in order to redeploy the cash.
- The investment value has risen significantly, making it somewhat sensible to liquidate some or all of the position, perhaps to re-balance the allocation of our funds or to reduce the risks of this particular investment — all based on a pre-defined exit strategy.
- The investment has risen to a pre-determined price target, so we want to lock in some, or all, of the profits and exit the position (either exit completely, or perhaps only partially).
- The investment position is not going anywhere and our money is not working hard enough (opportunity cost), so we liquidate in order to redeploy the capital elsewhere for a better performance.
- The price has risen much higher than our Initial Stop Loss level, so we have raised the stop loss to be a Trailing Stop Loss, so that if the price then falls we will be able to sell and capture more profits and preserve the remaining capital.
The weekly price chart below of BHP from a few years ago is a good example of a decent uptrend weakening with more than one 'flag'. Firstly, the green uptrend line from August to December is broken in January - indicating uptrend weakness. Then the test of recent lows in March and again in May, and the 30 week Moving Average rolls over and the price crosses below it in May (ack: Stan Weinstein methods, 'Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets', 1988). All of these signals were flagging trend weakness, and could have been used to consider exiting a position. |  | Technical Analysis / Chart indicators:
Many successful traders/investors like to use very specific exit criteria so as to eliminate the discretionary nature that some people use, and to make the exit signal clear cut. And when an exit signal is given, then action the exit by reducing or closing the position. This helps to preserve capital, and lock in any profits.
Some of the possible exit signals that are not considered here include: time-based exits, price target exits, and money-based exists (such as a percentage move from a recent high).
Following are some of the technical analysis (chart-based) tools that can be used in exit strategies:
- Moving Average (MA) (and Weinstein) — Note whether the price is above or below a particular MA. The 50day and 200day Moving Averages are commonly used. Also notice whether the MA itself is rising, or falling. For example, with the Weinstein approach (and a 30 week SMA on weekly charts).
- Moving Average Cross-over — The point at which two Moving Averages cross is considered by some people as a possible entry and exit strategy (or a part of a strategy in conjunction with another signal). If using a 5day and a 10day MA, then when the slower 10day MA crosses up to above the faster 5day MA, then this is the possible buy trigger, while the converse is the possible sell signal.
- Parabolic Stop and Reverse (P-SAR) — This is a simple but somewhat effective chart indicator for use with an exit strategy. It is very clear cut. The weekly chart below of BHP shows two variations of the P-SAR indicator, with two different appearances (a sequence of dots, and a series of dashes), and also the difference in the signal from changing the P-SAR parameters.
- Bollinger Bands — The Bollinger Bands chart indicator can be used to assist with buy and sell trigger conditions.
- ATR-based indicators — There are several chart indicators that are based on the Average True Range (ATR). Some sample indicators include: Chandelier Stop, and Wilson ATR Trailing Stop.
- Hull Range indicator — The Alan Hull Range indicator is one that has a sell signal built in, with one of four zones on the price chart indicating “sell” territory.
|  | ATR-based stop - Chandelier
The daily chart below of ABC shows the Chandelier Stop indicating an exit with the price fall in December 2013.
| Hull Range indicator
The weekly chart below of CBA shows the Hull Range indicator which comprises two shaded bands which help to form four "zones". The dotted line across the chart is the "central cord". The measure of volatility known as ATR is used to place a band above and below the central cord. These two lines are referred to as the Upper Deviation Line and the Lower Deviation Line. These two lines create the “envelope” that defines an acceptable price range. (These deviation lines are roughly 2 to 3 times ATR, with some modifications, and with limitations on the lower deviation to prevent it from falling too far and to make it useful as a stop loss value). For more details refer to Alan Hull's teachings.
|  | Conclusion
The material above is just an introduction to the huge range of possible exit strategies. For someone starting out with trading / investing, this is a good place to start the research, but make sure to continue the research until you find something that works for you, and which you feel comfortable with.
| Hoping this exercise has been useful for you.
Robert Brain | The ATAA Value Proposition Statement:
The ATAA is Australia’s leading independent community for people who want to learn how to trade and invest using market analysis. Whether you’re just starting out or building confidence, ATAA gives you clear education, real-world insights, and a supportive community, helping you understand the markets, avoid common mistakes, and make better trading decisions.
(if someone asks you why they should join the ATAA, then simply tell them this) | And another thing... About Emails | Before you unsubscribe:- Please note that if you ever unsubscribe from any of the ATAA emails, then unfortunately you will be unsubscribing for ALL ATAA emails. So please think carefully before hitting the Unsubscribe button.
Beware Spam emails! - On a different topic, one of our members emailed me recently to advise that he has been receiving more spam emails than usual. We all need to be very careful about the emails we receive these days because many of them are spam (unwanted and unsolicited), and they can contain sometimes hidden links to download suspicious or malicious software for nefarious purposes. The bottom line is to always be on alert to these attempted actions. | ATAA Member Perks and Benefits
| If you're not an ATAA member, and you are considering joining, you might be interested to know there are many good reasons to sign-up, including:
- Learn how to protect your hard-earned capital - using wise stock selection, and money and risk management ideas;
- Invaluable education opportunities (with discounts for members);
- Huge and extensive Resource Library (access for members);
- Networking opportunities - meet with like-minded peers for trading and investing discussions;
- Special Interest Groups (SIGs) (only for members) - there are several;
- News and information;
- Online Forums;
- Annual ATAA Conference (discounted for members).
| In Closing
I do hope you have found this edition of the Blast! Monthly News both interesting and useful. Feel free to send my any feedback - good or bad.
NOTES about this newsletter: The appearance of this email newsletter can be a little different depending on how you view it. In Google's Gmail the Gmail Inbox might show just a portion of this edition. At this stage I am not sure of the best way to work around this issue. And my apologies continue for any odd formatting that you might find which I cannot resolve - font size or line spacing etc - as these seem to be oddities in our CE email editor tool (there are probably odd HTML codes hidden behind the text, which we have not found yet). Every month when I prepare this newsletter, I spend ridiculous amounts of time fiddling around trying to make the line spacing consistent throughout, and the font sizes consistent; but it still turns out less than I would want it to.
Robert B. Brain
Blast! Newsletter Editor
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