What drives successful breakout trades? Anyone can easily identify price breaking an obvious support or resistance level, but what leads to a failed breakout and more importantly, what underlying factors drive successful breakout trades?

211023_2021 Conference - Bennell, Mark

Failure to recognise when market conditions have changed means traders may deploy the wrong combination of in the task of trading. Their performance suffers unnecessarily because they are using the tools in an inappropriate way. The challenge of improving your trading performance is to know when to use the tools you know best in a more appropriate way given changed market conditions. It may also involve resurrecting some tools discarded previously when markets changed. Daryl Guppy will show you how to improve trade performance in today’s market conditions, so you don’t get mugged in losing trades.

211023_2021 Conference - Guppy, Darryl

Join Bennett McDowell where he’ll show you how to exploit other traders fear AND reduce your own fear while trading. Now more than ever in the new COVID-19 world, you’ve got to be on your game, and you’ve got to be FEARLESS every time you pull the trigger.

• How to overcome fear when trading and stop it dead in its tracks
• Ways to exploit other traders fear and greed for greater profits in your account
• Tips to identify your own fear triggers
• Why you may be missing opportunities due to fear
• Risk control formulas to manage your downside and reduce the fear of losing

These are the actual techniques Bennett uses in his own trading each week. Plus, these strategies work for any trader or investor in any market and on any time frame.

211023_2021 Conference, McDowell, Bennett

In his famous 1994 speech, Charlie Munger shared his practical approach to making good decisions: “You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your head.”

Cognitive models are frameworks of thinking through which we process the external world. They shape how and what we think, they help us deal constructively with challenges we encounter and decide which opportunities get lost in our blind spot and which ones we notice. They are useful to simplify the complexity of the trading world.

The quality of our thinking is proportional to the models and frameworks in our mind. The ability to think through models will rapidly improve your decision-making process, especially under pressure. In this session you will learn 5 key cognitive models that will help you to optimise your decision-making process and so improve your performance.

211023_2021 Conference - Rafsanjani

Volatility makes markets – it defines your strategy, the instruments you trade, the direction and most importantly the risk you take on and the position size. You may not know it, but it's the most important factor in trading, you just need to measure, harness, and adapt to it.

In this presentation, Chris will demonstrate how we can read volatility and use it to measure market sentiment while offering a more dynamic approach to risk management. Chris will also look at how we can use volatility to trade extreme moves and look at higher probability mean reversion opportunities.

211023_2021 Conference - Weston, Chris

Sydney TA Chat Special Interest Group Meeting

Primary meeting focus: 

Chart Analysis

Rules Based Trading Systems

Meeting objectives:

This will be a workshop based meeting, and our SIG has the following objectives:

The interactive sharing of ideas.

To encourage dialogue between members

Inclusive of all present.

Offering a member focused agenda.

We want our meetings to have a relaxed and informal atmosphere.

MEETING AGENDA:

7.15 – 7.30 pm: Webinar will open

7.30 - 7.45 pm:  Welcome and announcements – Bruce Wood

7.45 – 8.15 pm: Major Market overview – Mary McNamara.

8.15 – 8.30 pm: IPO's - Should I trade them? - Bruce Wood

8.30 - 8.45 pm: A stock in play - Bruce Wood                 

8.45 - 9.00 pm: Chart Review (Chart Analysis)

9.00 pm: Closing comments

Mary McNamara will give an extensive review of all Major Markets and other markets of importance including commodities, FX and stocks.

IPO's (Initial Public Offerrings) can be hard to trade.The stock is new, hence does not have a history of price action. We do not know the market acceptance or demand for the stock? This presentation will raise some of the issues to consider when considering to buy a new listed stock.

Bruce Wood will share his decision making approach on a stock currently in play.

211202_TA Chat SIG

Meeting Agenda:

The Melbourne Quantitative Traders Group (MEL SIG QTG) meets monthly to discuss quantitative system development. In 2020-2021 the SIG is reviewing Howard Bandy's Quantitative Trading Systems book at the pace of a chapter a month, usually followed by chart/coding discussions.

211122_Quant SIG

Speaker: Pippa Carron

Topic: Back to Basics - Naked price bars and Candlestick Patterns.

211116_Canberra - Carron, Pippa

Speaker: Bruce Wood

Topic: A Study of the Turtles Breakout System

This presentation will review the work undertaken by The Turtles, and the importance of identifying breakouts for trend-following Trading Systems. We will consider the logic behind these trading rules, and examine whether these trading ideas work in our current markets.

211115_Sydney - Wood, Bruce

Speaker: Kevin Nelson

Topic: The Turtle Trading System

Kevin Nelson’s insights into the Turtles Method.

211115_Sydney - Nelson, Kevin

Speaker: Vince Vora

Topic: Demystifying the Swing Trade

Join Vince Vora and learn a brand new system that is specifically-designed to take advantage of these post-Covid markets. The season leading up to Christmas holds a number of opportunities for traders who are well-prepared and know which setups have a higher probability of success. Vince has put together his Victory system, specifically to take advantage of the nuances in these current markets.

You'll see how his unique combination of technical indicators lets you uncover the best trades in stocks, options, futures, forex and even cryptocurrency. Vince will show you real-time forward-looking outlooks on all these markets with full chart analyses and even show you what to look for before entering and exiting each trade and how to use options strategies to minimize your risk.

211113_MetaStock - Vora, Vince

Speaker: Mike Smith

Topic: FX SIG Monthly Meeting - Making the Position Choice

Join Mike Smith, Head of Client Education and Training at GO Markets (www.gomarkets.com) and CEO of Trader IQ (www.traderiq.com) for this innovative, practically orientated session. In this invaluable webinar we address the common scenario particular in FX when multiple plan-meeting signals occur across pairs (This also of course is an issue for those trading other or simultaneous trading instruments).

We will explore FIVE key questions you can ask that may offer some guidance and assist in YOUR decision about which may be the best signal to take.

As always if we gain clarity on this as a process, there is the potential to integrate this within our trading plan and evaluate through measurement to refine further to fit you as an individual trader.

The agenda for this meeting will be as follows:

• Introduction and welcome

• LIVE FX Market update – What’s moving NOW

• Your 5 key questions in choosing between multiple signal opportunities.

• Future meeting topics

211108_FX SIG

Sydney TA Chat Special Interest Group Meeting primary meeting focus: 

• Chart Analysis
• Rules Based Trading Systems

Sydney TA Chat Special Interest Group Meeting Objectives 

This will be a workshop based meeting, and our SIG has the following objectives:

• The interactive sharing of ideas.
• To encourage dialogue between members
• Inclusive of all present.
• Offering a member focused agenda.
• We want our meetings to have a relaxed and informal atmosphere.

MEETING AGENDA:

7.15 – 7.30 pm: Webinar will open

7.30 - 7.45 pm:  Welcome and announcements – Bruce Wood

7.45 – 8.15 pm: Major Market overview – Mary McNamara.

8.15 – 8.30 pm: Designing a trading strategy around the golden and death cross - Mary McNamara

8.30 - 8.45 pm: A stock in play - Bruce Wood                 

8.45 - 9.00 pm: Chart Review (Chart Analysis)

9.00 pm: Closing comments



Mary McNamara will give an extensive review of all Major Markets and other markets of importance including commodities, FX and stocks.

Mary McNamara will outline a trading strategy based on moving averages, golden and death crosses.

Bruce Wood will share his decision making approach on a stock currently in play.

211104_TA Chat SIG

Meeting Agenda:

The Melbourne Quantitative Traders Group (MEL SIG QTG) meets monthly to discuss quantitative system development. In 2020-2021 the SIG is reviewing Howard Bandy's Quantitative Trading Systems book at the pace of a chapter a month, usually followed by chart/coding discussions.

211025_Quant SIG

Speaker: David Novac

Topic: Identifying undervalued stocks, especially in uncertain times

With many hard lessons learned throughout his 35+ years in the stock market (including the 1987 crash), David Novac's expertise in global markets and future trends is renowned as being insightful and realistic.

211019_Canberra - Novac, David

Speaker: Mary McNamara

Topic: Deep Dive into ASX200 Oct 2021

Mary breaks down the ASX200 chart's using technical analysis.

211018_Sydney - McNamara, Mary

Speaker: Mike Smith

Topic: Using the ATR to refine entry and exit decisions

The use of the Average True Range (ATR) within trading systems is not uncommon particularly in its use for defining initial stop levels as its role as a volatility measure takes into account potential movements in price.

However, its adaptability for both variable pricing and timeframe of trading instruments and strategies but also its potential use in other trading decision making action points is often underplayed.

With reference to market participant price action and order placement, we will explore the potential use of the ATR to:

• Reduce the incidence of false breakouts
• Assist in the setting of meaningful profit targets
• Its use in setting initial stop but also as part of a trail stop system
• Compensate for limited information during the entry of pending/conditional orders.

The ATR will be explored to provide justification of a position while using LIVE examples during the session.

As developing consistency in trading action so allowing effective measurement of system components and refinement of trading plans is critical for development of individually appropriate trading systems, during the session we will give example statements that could be adapted and integrated within your written trading plan.

211018_Sydney - Smith, Mike

Speaker: Kevin Nelson

Topic: Using Explorer to Find LCI Trades - Part 3 of 3

LCI is a trading system that is included in your MetaStock program that has a number of extremely powerful tools. To help explain how to use this system to your advantage, on Saturday, October 16th at 10 AM AEDT, Kevin Nelson will present the third instructional webinar in this three-part series.

In the first webinar in the LCI series, held on August 28th, Kevin explained how the LCI system uses a number of different types of analyses to help you identify support, resistance, major tops, bottoms and much more.

In the second webinar held on Saturday, September 25th, Kevin instructed you how to use the system tester in MetaStock to backtest the LCI system on any security of your choice.

In the third and final LCI training event that will be held on Saturday, 16th October at 10 am AEDT, Kevin will show you how to use the Explorer to scan the markets to find the type of trading setups that are of interest to you. 

211016_MetaStock SIG

Speaker: Mike Smith

Topic: FX SIG Monthly Meeting - Measuring Performance

In this invaluable session we focus on what is one of THE key differences between successful traders and those who wish they were, that of mastering measurement of trading performance.

Too often traders focus on solely account balance and the P/L of any single trade where the reality is the REAL development comes from performance evaluation of you and your system in creating an evidence-based, individually-suited and refined set of trading systems.

If one is to treat your trading as you would any business this is CRITICAL!

The agenda for the next meeting will be as follows

• Introduction and welcome
• LIVE FX Market update – What’s moving NOW
• Why measure trading performance
• Your critical trading business numbers
• Creating a journaling process that makes a difference
• Future meeting topics

211011_FX SIG

Sydney TA Chat Special Interest Group Meeting

MEETING AGENDA:

7.15 - 7.30 pm   Webinar will open

7.30 - 7.45 pm   Welcome and announcements – Bruce Wood

7.45 - 8.00 pm   Major Market overview – Mary McNamara.

8.00 - 8.30 pm   FX - Identifying optimal entry setups using TA algorithms – Pippa Carron

8.30 - 8.45 pm   A stock in play - Bruce Wood

8.45 - 9.00 pm  Chart Review (Chart Analysis)

9.00 pm         Closing comments

Mary McNamara will give an extensive review of all Major Markets and other markets of importance including commodities, FX and stocks of interest.

FX – Identifying optimal entry setups using TA algorithms - Entering a trade can be as simple as observing that the instrument is trending up or down and going with the flow, which may or may not be successful! To increase the probability of success, professional traders use a suite of technical indicators brought together as an algorithm, each of which defines an entry setup. This presentation describes the process Pippa Carron has used to generate algorithms and setups in forex trading, although the process is equally applicable to stock trading. Examples of several different FX setups will be described.

Bruce Wood will share his decision making approach on a stock currently in play.

211007_TA Chat SIG

Meeting Agenda:

The Melbourne Quantitative Traders Group (MEL SIG QTG) meets monthly to discuss quantitative system development. In 2020-2021 the SIG is reviewing Howard Bandy's Quantitative Trading Systems book at the pace of a chapter a month, usually followed by chart/coding discussions - Chapter 18.

210927_Quant SIG

Speaker: Kevin Nelson

Topic: Using Explorer to Find LCI Trades - Part 2 of 3

Included in your MetaStock program is a trading system called the LCI System, which was originally created by Logan Connors.

LCI is a trading system that is included in your MetaStock program that has a number of extremely powerful tools. To help explain how to use this system to your advantage, on Saturday, September 25th at 10 AM AEST, Kevin Nelson will be presenting the second instructional webinar in this three-part series.

In the first webinar that was held August 28th, Kevin explained how the LCI system uses a number of different types of analyses to help you identify support, resistance, major tops, bottoms and much more.

In our next webinar that is going to be held on Saturday, September 25th at 10 am AEST, Kevin will instruct you how to use the system tester in MetaStock to backtest the LCI system on any security of your choice.

In the third and final training event that will be held on 16th October at 10 am AEST, Kevin will show you how to use the Explorer to scan the markets to find the type of trading setups that are of interest to you.

210925_MetaStock SIG

Speaker: Mary McNamara

Topic: Deep Dive into ASX200 Sep 2021

Mary breaks down the ASX200 chart's using technical analysis.

210920_Sydney - McNamara, Mary

Speaker: Darryl Nagel

Topic: The theory and practice of using the Parabolic Stop and Reverse (PSAR)

In this session, we will discover:

1. Who created the PSAR?
2. How the PSAR is calculated?
3. The benefits of using the PSAR in your analysis whether for shares, forex or other securities.  
4. Setting your stop loss using the PSAR
5. Using the PSAR for your trailing stops.

210920_Sydney - Nagel, Darryl

Speaker: Bruce Wood

Topic: The ASX market Open process and how prices are calculated

His presentation will include; 

• How (and why) the market open is staggered with separate groups of stocks.
• How the open price is calculated.
• The pros and cons of trading on the “match price”

210920_Sydney - Wood, Bruce

Speaker: Mike Smith

Topic: FX SIG Monthly Meeting - Exits

The aim of this SIG is to provide an educational forum that addresses the technical approaches, system development and trading psychology of trading FX markets.

In this invaluable session we focus on ‘exits’, too often neglected in comparison to the airplay given to entry indicators, and look to give clarity not only on the benefits of an effective trail stop strategy but practical approaches to making this happen in your trading.

The agenda for the next meeting will follow the following guidelines:

• Introduction and welcome
• LIVE Market update
• Why trailing stops?
• Trailing stop alternatives for the FX trader.
• Future meeting topics

210913_FX SIG

Speaker: Richard Brennan

Topic: The impact of Noise on Trading Models and a Quantitative Approach to isolate Meaningful Data to give an Edge

A stimulating discussion is proposed whereby we look at concepts of 'noise' and 'signals' in real market data. Having this understanding then allows us to apply a quantitative approach to isolate meaningful data from noisy data to give us an edge in our trading systems.

The presentation steps through important considerations to assist us to perhaps at least consider why it is essential to empirically test our models in a quantitative and systematic way to discover whether or not we can capture causal signals existing in otherwise noisy market data with our systems.

Initially the content to be discussed in this excellent series will form the basis of the introduction to noise and its impact in market data:

Once members have an understanding of these broad concepts, I will the showcase the content in the following 3 videos using a real interactive process:

Part 4: Creating a random market data series and a random market data series with inserted bias . We will also examine a generated random market data series and see how traditional indicators such as MACD, Support and Resistance, RSI and Stochastic indicators which still seem to work when applied to random market data.

Part 5: Assessing how this simulated data performs in tests undertaken with real trend following models.

We will run real simple trend following models on this data to see how we can be lulled into a false sense of an edge even when we use random market data and why a large trade sample size is essential in determining whether or not an edge exists. We will then compare the performance of these models when applied to random market data and real market data to understand there is only a weak edge in real market data but this is all we need to find a profitable system in the long term provided we can strictly manage risk at all times.

Part 6: Reshuffling real market data to observe the effect on our Trend Following Models. This introduces members to the concept of serially correlated data and it's importance for all trading models.

This presentation will conclude with a discuss of the important factors raised in the following excellent episode with Tim Masters. Tim worked very closely with David Aronson ("Evidence Based Technical Analysis").

210911_Brisbane - Brennan, Richard

Speaker: Alan Clement

Topic: Global Markets Quarterly Technical Outlook Q3 CY2021

Join Alan for his ever popular quarterly market update, where he will pick apart the events of the last few months and determine the levels and patterns to look for. Using a variety of technical tools and chart types, he will delve into momentum, support, resistance, sentiment and market breadth to analyse local and overseas stock markets, currencies and commodities. Always informative and guaranteed to contain a few surprises, this presentation could act as a useful input to developing your own market road map for the coming weeks and months ahead.

210909_Melbourne - Clement, Alan

Speaker: Peter Mathers

Topic: Trade Set-Ups!

The presentation is simply about trade set-ups. The tools that Peter uses to get to the safe trade set-ups in any time frame, and in any market. He will give a quick outline of the Trading Levels, Elliott wave and how to read volume; and use these techniques for the trade setups both long and short. Peter will go through some of the markets that they analyse and trade, and hopefully there will be some spare time in the session so he can look at some market suggestions from the webinar participants.

210909_Melbourne - Mathers, Peter

Sydney TA Chat Special Interest Group Meeting

MEETING AGENDA:

7.15 – 7.30 pm   Webinar will open

7.30 - 7.45 pm    Welcome and announcements – Bruce Wood

7.45 – 8.15 pm    Major Market overview – Mary McNamara.

8.15 – 8.30 pm    FX Trading or Crypto - my experiences with a recent trade - James Ings

8.30 - 8.45 pm    A stock in play - Bruce Wood

8.45 - 9.00 pm    Chart Review (Chart Analysis)

9.00 pm               Closing comments.

James Ings will share his experiences with either a recent FX pair or Crypto Currency trade.

210902_TA Chat SIG

Speaker: Kevin Nelson

Topic: Using Explorer to Find LCI Trades - Part 1 of 3

Included in your MetaStock program is a trading system called the LCI System, which was originally created by Logan Connors.

The LCI system uses a number of different types of analyses to help you identify support, resistance, major tops, bottoms and much more. To help explain exactly how to use this system, Kevin Nelson will be presenting three different webinar training events.

The first training event will be held Saturday, August 28th at 10:00 am AEDT. In this class, Kevin will give you an overview of the trading system, explain the differences between the templates that are included in your program, and he will teach you how to interpret the signals.

In the second training event, Kevin will teach you how to use MetaStock’s System Tester to backtest the LCI system on the securities of your choice.

In the third and final training event, Kevin will show you how to use the Explorer to scan the markets to find the type of trading setups that are of interest to you.

210828_MetaStock SIG

Meeting Agenda:

The Melbourne Quantitative Traders Group (MEL SIG QTG) meets monthly to discuss quantitative system development. In 2020-2021 the SIG is reviewing Howard Bandy's Quantitative Trading Systems book at the pace of a chapter a month, usually followed by chart/coding discussions - Chapter 17.

210823_Quant SIG

Speaker: Mary McNamara

Topic: Deep Dive into ASX200 Aug 2021

Mary breaks down the ASX200 chart's using technical analysis.

210816_Sydney - McNamara, Mary

Speaker: Darryl Nagel

Topic: Technical Analysis - Back to Basics - Average True Range (ATR) Theory

In this session, we have a member who uses the ATR to demonstrate their use of the ATR in their analysis.We will discover:

• Who created the ATR?
• How the ATR is calculated?
• The benefits of using the ATR in your analysis whether for shares, forex or other instruments.  
• Three different ways you can use the ATR for creating objective rules and a strategy for yourself
• How to read this indicator correctly with forex.
• Setting your stop loss using the ATR
• Using the ATR for your trailing stops.
• Setting your profit target using the ATR. 

210816_Sydney - Nagel, Darryl

Speaker: Pippa Carron

Topic: Technical Analysis - Back to Basics - Average True Range (ATR) Practice

In this session, we have a member who uses the ATR to demonstrate their use of the ATR in their analysis. We will discover:

• Who created the ATR?
• How the ATR is calculated?
• The benefits of using the ATR in your analysis whether for shares, forex or other instruments.  
• Three different ways you can use the ATR for creating objective rules and a strategy for yourself
• How to read this indicator correctly with forex.
• Setting your stop loss using the ATR
• Using the ATR for your trailing stops.
• Setting your profit target using the ATR. 

210816_Sydney - Carron, Pippa

Speaker: Robert Brain

Topic: How do most of us trade/invest? Why do we pick the stocks that we buy?

What is the best way to choose stocks for purchase? Should we exclusively use either technical analysis, or fundamental analysis? Or a mixture? Or should we focus on a preferred market sector? Or perhaps choose a company that has a “good story” and hope they deliver?

In recent months the BullCharts User Group members have been playing a stock picking game, where each person is invited to nominate just one stock to hold in the game for a few weeks or months. Each member was invited to explain the details behind why they chose their stock. For a group of technical analysts the answers have been very surprising, and might be indicative of why ATAA members invest/trade in the stocks that they do.

In this session Robert will divulge the many reasons for stock selection that are in use among our colleagues and peers – which surprisingly include the use of both technical analysis and fundamental analysis to varying degrees. The information to be presented might give ATAA members some comfort with their own stock selection ideas and methods, so it will be a very useful session to attend.

If time permits, the webinar participants will be invited to contribute to the discussion and share their own observations about successful stock picking.

How do most of us trade/invest? Why do we pick the stocks that we buy? - Robert Brain

Note there is no video associated with this presentation.

Speaker: David Keller

Topic: Better Routines Mean Better Decisions

What's the first market-related item you look at every day?

How and when do you consume financial media?

How do you deal with the firehose of information available to market participants?

Mindful investors follow a disciplined process to gather information and develop an investment thesis. In this session, Dave will walk attendees through his daily chart routine to demonstrate how you can improve your understanding of asset rotation and identify investment candidates by sticking to a good Morning Coffee Routine. You will leave with actionable ideas to upgrade your process and invest with intention.

210810_STANZ - Keller, David

Speaker: Mike Smith

Topic: FXSIG Inaugural Monthly Meeting - Trading Timeframes

The Forex market is the largest traded market on the planet and the FX traders SIG is designed to support both beginners and experienced FX traders in development of their trading of this instrument.

We are planning to have monthly online meetings which will be recorded and will be available to ATAA members to review in their own time. The SIG will have a forum page on the ATAA website and publish ideas on the ATAA Facebook page.

As FX markets are open during the SIG session times we will include a LIVE market update where we will be exploring in Real time potential sentiment changes and trade set ups.

The aim of this SIG is to provide an educational forum that addresses the technical approaches, system development and trading psychology of trading FX markets.

The SIG team would like you to suggest what would make this SIG valuable to you and encourage you to participate. We are inviting you to share your experiences with Forex trading. 

The agenda for the initial meeting will follow the following guidelines:

• Introduction and welcome
• LIVE Market update
• Similarities and idiosyncrasies of FX trading versus other instruments
• 5 CRITICAL attributes of the successful Forex trader – a checklist for established traders
• Get started NOW: Adding FX trading to your trading toolbox (your opportunity to test out your FX potential on a demo account)
• Future meeting topics

210809_FXSIG - Smith, Mike

Speaker: Bruce Wood

Topic: Sydney TA Chat Special Interest Group

Sydney TA Chat Special Interest Group Meeting Objectives 

This will be a workshop based meeting, and our SIG has the following objectives:

• The interactive sharing of ideas.
• To encourage dialogue between members
• Inclusive of all present.
• Offering a member focused agenda.
• We want our meetings to have a relaxed and informal atmosphere.

MEETING AGENDA:

7.15 – 7.30 pm   Webinar will open

7.30 - 7.45 pm    Welcome and announcements – Bruce Wood

7.45 – 8.15 pm    Major Market overview – Mary McNamara.

8.15 – 8.30 pm    FX Trading or Crypto - my experiences with a recent trade - James Ings

8.30 - 8.45 pm   A stock in play - Bruce Wood

8.45 - 9.00 pm    Chart Review (Chart Analysis)

9.00 pm               Closing comments.

James Ings will share his experiences with either a recent FX pair or Crypto Currency trade.

210805_TASIG - TASIG Wood, Bruce

Meeting Agenda:

The Melbourne Quantitative Traders Group (MEL SIG QTG) meets monthly to discuss quantitative system development. In 2020-2021 the SIG is reviewing Howard Bandy's Quantitative Trading Systems book at the pace of a chapter a month, usually followed by chart/coding discussions - Chapter 16 (Portfolios).

210726_Quant SIG

Speaker: Mary McNamara

Topic: Deep Dive into ASX200 Jul 2021

Mary breaks down the ASX200 chart's using technical analysis.

210719_Sydney - McNamara, Mary

Speaker: Gary Burton

Topic:  Day Trader or Buy and Hold Equities Futures or Crypto currencies

Gary Burtons presentation on Real time Pattern trading in short and long time frames will provide a usable insight into trade setup and trade management.

This presentation will work through some proven price setup patterns for the short term trader and the Buy and hold Investor.

If you are an Equities trader or Crypto trader, Options trader, this presentation will add to or change the way you trade.

210719_Sydney - Burton, Gary

Speaker: Gary Burton

Topic: Pattern Trading in Short and Long Time Frames

Gary Burton's handout to Brisbane meeting on Trend identification

Burton_210710_P_BNE_Pattern-Trading-in-Short-and-Long-time-frames.pdf

Note there is no video associated with this presentation.

Speaker: Sunil Mangwani

Topic: Risk Management the importance of following the correct elements

Ask any professional trader the secret to success and they will most likely mention Risk Management as the key factor. Effective Risk Management is a combination of different elements like Win/Loss Ratio, Correct Position Sizing, Risk-to-Reward Ratio, etc., with each of these varying in degree of importance.

Knowing which are the more important elements is crucial to consistently growing the account. For example, a common misconception is the importance of the Win/Loss Ratio. Most traders tend to give priority to this, rather obviously, as having a larger number of winning trades is beneficial to the account.

The simple fact is that losing trades are dependent on market forces and something that a trader cannot control. Hence concentrating on this would be incorrect.

In this webinar, we will focus on each of these elements and find out the most important one that a trader should concentrate on.

Understanding the proper one ensures account growth and, more importantly, determines what kind of market should be traded and on what time frames to trade.

210710_Newcastle - Mangwani, Sunil

Speaker: Bruce Wood

Topic: Sydney TA Chat Special Interest Group

MEETING AGENDA:

7.15 – 7.30 pm:    Webinar will open

7.30 - 7.45 pm:    Welcome and announcements – Bruce Wood

7.45 – 8.15 pm:    Major Market overview – Mary McNamara.

8.15 – 8.35 pm:    FX Trading or Crypto - my experiences with a recent trade - James Ings

8.35 - 9.00 pm:    Emerging stock presentation by Karen Wong (starts about 51 minutes into the recording)

9.00 pm:         Closing comments.

Claude Alexidis participated in the ASX Sharemarket game # 2 in 2020 and at our December 2020 meeting, Claude gave a presentation and overview of the competition, and what he learnt from this experience. In this presentation, Claude will give us an update on his current progress towards further improving this strategy.

210701_TASIG - Wood, Bruce

Meeting Agenda:

The Melbourne Quantitative Traders Group (MEL SIG QTG) meets monthly to discuss quantitative system development. In 2020-2021 the SIG is reviewing Howard Bandy's Quantitative Trading Systems book at the pace of a chapter a month, usually followed by chart/coding discussions - Chapter 15 & 16.

210628_Quant SIG

Speaker: Bruce Wood

Topic: Heiken-Ashi candlestick approach

Presented to the Sydney Chapter meeting, this is Bruce's view of using Heiken-Ashi candlesticks to approach the markets.

210621_Sydney - Wood, Bruce

Speaker: Daryl Guppy

Topic: Overview of the Darvas Box Approach

Daryl presents how Darvas Boxes can be used in trading the markets.

Daryl Guppy has provided trading and investment analysis of financial markets for more than 25 years. His immensely popular 1996 book SHARE TRADING laid the groundwork for technical trading in Australia. He only trades his own capital. He has a well-established public record of successful trade calls for trading local and global equity, commodity and FX markets. He has unique experience in trading both Western and mainland Chinese markets. He is recognised as an international investment expert. Guppy has nine books published internationally by John Wiley. His new book is due for publication in late 2020.

He has developed several technical indicators which are included in industry standard software such as DZH International, Metastock and Omnitrader as well as many other charting programs. He developed the ANTSSYS trading indicators for commodity, index and currency markets. Globally many traders use the technical indicators developed by Guppy to trade equities and other markets. For 20 years Guppy has been a regular host anchor on CNBC Asia Squawkbox where he is known as “The Chartman”. Daryl is a regular contributor and columnist for financial magazines and media in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Australia and the US. His weekly analysis and trading newsletter has been in continuous publication for 25 years.

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Speaker: Anish Lal and Hamesh Sharma

Topic: Combining Fundamental and Technical Analysis

The Society of Technical Analysis New Zealand are pleased to invite the ATAA members to their bi-monthly meeting held in June 2021.

Presenters:

Anish Lal, Head of FX and Metals, BlackBull Markets

Anish Lal is a 10 year industry veteran, from working with FCA regulated brokers and investment banks in London to now leading the helm of New Zealand’s fastest growing brokerages. He specialises in Foreign Exchange and Metals trading, with a keen focus on macro-economic analysis, rates and also chart patterns.

Hamesh Sharma, Partner, ATM Research

Hamesh has 10 years’ financial markets experience, beginning his career as an analyst in the investment strategy team at JBWere, after a summer at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. In 2015 he co-founded ATM Research, an independent stock market research firm. Hamesh is currently a portfolio manager at Pathfinder Asset Management and primarily manages Australasian equities.

210615_STANZ - Lal & Sharma

Speaker: Bruce Wood

Topic: Sydney TA Chat Special Interest Group

Sydney TA Chat Special Interest Group Meeting Objectives 

This will be a workshop based meeting, and our SIG has the following objectives:

• The interactive sharing of ideas.
• To encourage dialogue between members
• Inclusive of all present.
• Offering a member focused agenda.
• We want our meetings to have a relaxed and informal atmosphere.

MEETING AGENDA:

7.00 – 7.15 pm:    Webinar will open

7.15 - 7.30 pm:    Welcome and announcements – Bruce Wood

7.30 – 8.00 pm:    Major Market overview – Mary McNamara.

8.00 – 8.20 pm:    FX Trading - my experiences with a recent trade - James Ings

8.20 - 8.50 pm     Claude's Trading Strategy development - Claude Alexidis

8.50 - 9.30 pm:    Ticker Talk (Chart analysis)

9.30 pm:          Closing comments.

Claude Alexidis participated in the ASX Sharemarket game # 2 in 2020 and at our December 2020 meeting, Claude gave a presentation and overview of the competition, and what he learnt from this experience. In this presentation, Claude will give us an update on his current progress towards further improving this strategy.

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Speaker: Kevin Nelson

Topic: How to interpret Daryl Guppy's Multiple Moving Average indicator

The Multiple Moving average indicator is included in the MetaStock program but to further assist traders, Kevin Nelson created several items which will help you back test your system and scan for securities that meet the setup requirements.

About Daryl Guppy’s Multiple Moving Average Indicator.

The Guppy Multiple Moving Average (GMMA) is a technical indicator that identifies changing trends, breakouts, and trading opportunities in the price of an asset by combining two groups of moving averages (MA) with different time periods. The GMMA consists of a short-term group of MAs and a long-term group of MAs, both containing six MAs, for a total of 12, and is overlaid on the price chart of an asset. When the short-term group of averages moves above the longer-term group, it indicates a price uptrend in the asset could be emerging.

Daryl Guppy is an Australian trader that has provided trading and investment analysis of financial markets for more than 25 years. He has developed several technical indicators which are included in industry standard software such as DZH International, Metastock and Omnitrader as well as many other charting programs. Globally many traders use the technical indicators developed by Guppy to trade equities and other markets.

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Meeting Agenda:

The Melbourne Quantitative Traders Group (MEL SIG QTG) meets monthly to discuss quantitative system development. In 2020-2021 the SIG is reviewing Howard Bandy's Quantitative Trading Systems book at the pace of a chapter a month, usually followed by chart/coding discussions - Chapter 13.

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Speaker: Gary Burton

Topic: Keeping it Simple

The more we trade it seems the more we need to know about Technical analysis, and as many come to learn there are multiple roads that can be travelled, however the most successful traders only use very simple price observations to build a consistent trading approach.

The presentation will center on the Basics of Technical Analysis for practical Trading applications:

• Defining the underlying trend.
• How to draw correct support and resistance levels
• How to draw trendlines.
• Trading reversal points.
• The Relative strength Indicator

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Speaker: Sid Bhattacharjee

Topic: Probability & Risk Management in Swing Trading Stocks & ETFs - SYD

Sid's presentation will cover the following:

• Probability

• Risk Management

• Seasonality

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Speaker: Keith Mundy

Topic: My Favorite Patterns

I believe that Technical Analysis is essential for successful trading. 

Many people look for more and more complex indicators and strategies. 

I believe that this can be counter-productive and I will be presenting some eight patterns that can assist turning your trades from losses to profit.

Mundy_210513_P_MEL_my-favorite-Patterns.pdf

Note there is no video associated with this presentation.

Speaker: Bruce Wood

Topic: Sydney TA Chat Special Interest Group

Sydney TA Chat Special Interest Group Meeting Objectives 

This will be a workshop based meeting, and our SIG has the following objectives:

• The interactive sharing of ideas.
• To encourage dialogue between members
• Inclusive of all present.
• Offering a member focused agenda.
• We want our meetings to have a relaxed and informal atmosphere.

MEETING AGENDA:

7.00 – 7.15 pm:    Webinar will open

7.15 - 7.30 pm:    Welcome and announcements – Bruce Wood

7.30 – 8.00 pm:    Major Market overview – Mary McNamara.

8.00 – 8.20 pm:    FX Trading - my experiences with a recent trade - James Ings

8.20 - 8.50 pm     Claude's Trading Strategy development - Claude Alexidis

8.50 - 9.30 pm:    Ticker Talk (Chart analysis)

9.30 pm:           Closing comments.

Claude Alexidis participated in the ASX Sharemarket game # 2 in 2020 and at our December 2020 meeting, Claude gave a presentation and overview of the competition, and what he learnt from this experience. In this presentation, Claude will give us an update on his current progress towards further improving this strategy.

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Speaker: Meeting Participants

Meeting Agenda:

The Melbourne Quantitative Traders Group (MEL SIG QTG) meets monthly to discuss quantitative system development. In 2020-2021 the SIG is reviewing Howard Bandy's Quantitative Trading Systems book at the pace of a chapter a month, usually followed by chart/coding discussions - Chapter 12.

210426_Quant SIG

Speaker: Peter Aubourg

Topic: Inside Indicators - ADX - 2021

Peter Aubourg dives into the ADX indicator.

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Speaker: Igor Vasiliev

Topic: How you can increase your profitability by understanding fundamentals of traded shares

There are multiple trading strategies on the Market and many money managers using different ways to approach their trades. The only one thing remains in common among them is ability to combine fundamental analysis, technical analysis and general situation on the Market. That is why if you want to increase your trading returns, you’d better know how to do it.

What we will cover during this presentation:

• Principles of Value investing;
• When and why, we use this strategy;
• Understanding a difference between REAL Value of the business and price of the stock;
• Value trap and what you need to know to avoid it;
• Value investing vs Value trading;
• Why do you get higher profitability when combine value and technical analysis;
• When do we buy and when do we sell if we use this strategy;
• Plan “B” – what do we do if stock keep going down after we bought it;

210419_Sydney - Vasiliev, Igor

Speaker: Bruce Wood

Topic: Sydney TA Chat Special Interest Group

MEETING AGENDA:

7.00 – 7.15 pm:    Webinar will open

7.15 - 7.30 pm:    Welcome and announcements – Bruce Wood

7.30 – 8.10 pm:    Major Market overview – Mary McNamara.

8.00 – 8.40 pm:   Applying Donchian Channels in TA - David Woodside

 8.40 - 9.05 pm:   My current progress with developing my trading strategy - Claude Alexidis 

9.05 pm – 9.30 pm: Ticker Talk (Chart analysis)

9.30 pm:            Closing comments.

At all of our webinar meetings, we are always appealing for any member who has a specialty on any Technical Analysis concept, to do a presentation at one of our webinars. I am delighted to advise that David Woodside has volunteered to do a presentation on Donchian Channels.

David is a retired farmer, who resides in Western NSW, and actively invests in stocks, using Technical Analysis for his trading decisions. David will explain how he uses Donchian Channels, and also other trading channels to assist with his chart interpretations. David also manages his local branch of the Australian Shareholders Association.

Claude Alexidis participated in the ASX Sharemarket game # 2 in 2020 and at our December 2020 meeting, Claude gave a presentation and overview of the competition, and what he learnt from this experience. In this presentation, Claude will give us an update on his current progress towards further improving this strategy.

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Speaker: Craig Roberts

Topic: PX24 Prop Trading

Main Presentation: Proprietary Trading

1. The nature of proprietary trading.
2. The pros and cons of proprietary trading
3. What successful traders do that unsuccessful traders don’t do?

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Speaker: Warren Murnane

Topic: Becoming a confident short term trader

Warren’s presentation will cover the following:

• First 10 minutes ATAA National/Board update to members

• How to become a confident short-term trader

• Mean reversion trading

• Short-term trading in Indices & FX

murnane_210327_p_bne_becoming-a-confident-short-term-trader.pptx

Note there is no video associated with this presentation.

Speaker: Darryl Nagel

Topic: Exploring various strategies of the trading approach in MetaStock System Test - MS11 – First Hour Breakout

This presentation may appeal to not only MetaStock subscribers but also those members who have AmiBroker, BullCharts and TradeSim.

In fact all members will gain insight into the concept of repeating ranges, a concept taught by WD Gann and many others.

We will examine within the MetaStock System Test, 3 different formulas, reflecting the original formulas, the revised formulas to achieve a risk/reward of 1/3 and the formulas to identify a trend.

System test results will be chosen for ASX stocks, Forex and Indices.

We will provide the formulas used in this presentation in the ATAA MetaStock User Group SIG Forum.

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Speaker: Bruce Wood

Topic: Sydney TA Chat Special Interest Group

MEETING AGENDA:

7.00 – 7.15 pm:    Webinar will open

7.15 - 7.30 pm:    Welcome and announcements – Bruce Wood

7.30 – 8.10 pm:    Major Market overview – Mary McNamara.

8.00 – 8.30 pm:    Using Stator-AFM to manage a simple share portfolio - Claude Alexidis

 8.30 - 8.50 pm:    FX Trading – my experiences with a recent trade – James Ings  

8.50 pm – 9.30 pm: Ticker Talk (Chart analysis)

9.30 pm:           Closing comments.

James Ings will share his experiences with a recent FX pair trade.

At a previous SIG webinar, Claude Alexidis gave a brief coverage of the Stator AFM application he uses to manage his share portfolio. A request was received asking for a more detailed demonstration on how Claude uses this package, and Claude will provide a 30 minute overview on what Claude believes is very special about this product.

210304_TASIG - Wood, Bruce

Speaker: Meeting Participants

Meeting Agenda:

The Melbourne Quantitative Traders Group (MEL SIG QTG) meets monthly to discuss quantitative system development. In 2020-2021 the SIG is reviewing Howard Bandy's Quantitative Trading Systems book at the pace of a chapter a month, usually followed by chart/coding discussions - Chapter 10.

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Speaker: Mary McNamara

Topic: ASX 200 Deep Dive

In this presentation Mary will deep dive review the ASX200.

210215_Sydney - McNamara, Mary

Speaker: Jerven Zhang

Topic: My Trading Journey and Recent Gold Trades

A discussion of one of Jerven's favourite strategies.

210215_Sydney - Zhang, Jerven

Speaker: Mike Smith

Topic: Measuring Trading Performance

Measuring trading performance is critical not only from a personal behavioral perspective but also to ensure that your system develops to fit you as an individual trader. This session addresses this topic theoretically and practically with the aim of giving you the knowledge, skills and downloadable tools to help you succeed in delivering this ESSENTIAL part of your on-going trading development, and is applicable for all traders, investing in all financial instruments.

Arguably, measuring trading performance is one of the important differentiating factors between trading as a hobby and trading as a business.

In this session we will cover:

• Why measuring trading is critical to your on-going development and the serious implications of not doing this
• The key trading business numbers which are your benchmark for measuring success or otherwise
• How to measure and record effectively your trade system performance so you can determine which parts of that system are working for you (and which are not).
• How to undertake a formal review of collected information so you can "close the circle" and integrate evidence back into your trading system and behaviors.

This learning is not to be missed.

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Speaker: Bruce Wood

Topic: Sydney TA Chat Special Interest Group

MEETING AGENDA:

7.15 – 7.30 pm:   Webinar will open

7.30 – 7.45 pm:  Welcome and announcements – Bruce Wood

7.45 – 8.10 pm:  Major Market overview – Mary McNamara 

8.10 – 8.50 pm:  FX Trading – my experiences with a recent trade – James Ings

               Trading Repeating Ranges – Darryl Nagel

8.50 – 9.30 pm: Ticker Talk (Chart analysis)

9.30 pm:       Closing comments.

James Ings will share his experiences with a recent FX pair trade.

Darryl Nagel will give a presentation on "Trading repeating ranges". This concept caught Darryl’s attention many years ago from a broker he used at the time, and also reminded him of some of WD Gann’s teachings. Darryl has customized his formulas and uses his Metastock chart analysis software to assist in identifying these repeating trading ranges. In this presentation, Darryl will not use Metastock, however will show how this approach applies to trading the futures contract of the ASX SPI.

210204_TASIG - Wood, Bruce

Alan Clement - The Magic of Dual Momentum Investing

Market momentum is a powerful ally and being able to measure and rank it will tend to keep you on the right side of the market. Alan will demonstrate some methodologies you can employ to filter stocks you may want to buy or sell in your portfolio. He will also demonstrate why market momentum persists and why owning the highest momentum opportunities can deliver superior returns. He will also discuss ways you can manage downside risk in your portfolio, in particular for when markets turn more volatile.

210130_Power 21 - Clement, Alan

Grant Barnett - Find Share & CFD Opportunities in 10 Minutes

210130_Power 21 - Barnett, Grant

Edwin Cornelissen - Dispelling the automated Trading Myths

210130_Power 21 - Cornelissen, Edwin

Daryl Guppy - Three Ways to Surviving the Quarter

210130_Power 21 - Guppy, Daryl

Nigel Hawkes - The #1 Rule - Master this and Master Your Trading

210130_Power 21 - Hawkes, Nigel

Cameron Malik & Mark Austin (Magnetic Trading) - Identifying high probability trades in Index Trading

210130_Power 21 - Malik, Cameron

Darryl Nagel - How you can develop a REAL trading edge

210130_Power 21 - Nagel, Darryl

Mike Smith - Creating a Trail Stop System that is a Fit for Your Trading Style

210130_Power 21 - Smith, Mike

Speaker: Meeting Participants

Meeting Agenda:

The Melbourne Quantitative Traders Group (MEL SIG QTG) meets monthly to discuss quantitative system development. In 2020-2021 the SIG is reviewing Howard Bandy's Quantitative Trading Systems book at the pace of a chapter a month, usually followed by chart/coding discussions - this month is chapter 9.  

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