I think your wallet is safe.

We could try a Twitter campaign . . .

180+ people booked to come, still some spaces if anyone is interested:

FOREX TRADING MOVE INTO PROFIT CONFERENCE - 3RD NOVEMBER 2011 Dexter House, Royal Mint Court, Tower Hill, London EC3N 4QN

Registration from 10.30am

11.00am WELCOME: Chair's opening remarks
Mike Boydell Managing Director, MoneyAM

11.05am FOREX BASICS:
An introduction to the basic terms, definitions and concepts of forex trading.
Speaker Russ Mould Editor, Shares Magazine

11.15am USING MACRO ECONOMICS AS PART OF YOUR TRADING PLAN
Speaker Bill Hubard Economist & TV Commentator What are the important economic news announcements to follow and how to interpret the effect these numbers have on the global economy and currency movements - Interest Rates, Sentiment Surveys, Retail Sales, Manufacturing Output, Employment Trends and National Debt?
Behind the headlines - How to source market moving global news headlines and how to trade these.

12.00pm THE KNOWLEDGE: EURO DEBT CRISIS. EURO VERSUS OTHER CURRENCIES.
WHAT IS THE OUTLOOK?
Speaker - TBC

12:20pm THE KNOWLEDGE: THE DOLLAR. DOLLAR VERSUS OTHER CURRENCIES. WHAT IS THE OUTLOOK?
Speaker John Hardy Saxo Bank - Bank Head of FX Strategy

12.40pm THE KNOWLEDGE: THE NEW WORLD OF EMERGING MARKET CURRENCIES. RISK
VERSUS REWARD.
Speaker Kathleen Brooks FOREX.com Research Director UK EMEA

13.00pm LUNCH

14.00pm TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: LEARNING TO TRADE THROUGH TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Speaker Sandy Jadeja SignalPro Chief Market Strategist. Trading the financial markets using Technical Analysis can offer some fantastic trading opportunities. But with these highly volatile markets how do we enter safely and exit for a profit? Trading requires a well executed plan with a disciplined approach and an appropriate strategy to suit your own trading style. Watch and learn as Sandy walks you through a range of markets which have shown extraordinary moves over the last few months. You will also be taught how to use the right chart patterns to help select trades before they are about to break out, and you will see which markets may be on the radar for the next few weeks.


14.45pm THE KNOWLEDGE: AUTOMATED TECHNICAL TRADING SYSTEMS - THE HOLY GRAIL?
Speaker Zoe Fiddes Easy Forex UK Branch Manager

15.15pm TEA

15.45pm LIVE TRADING SESSION: WATCH A PROFESSIONAL TRADE THE FOREX MARKETS LIVE
Speaker Francis Hunt TraderManagement.com FX Analyst It is one thing being taught the theory of how to trade the Forex markets but its another watching a trader at work real-time pip by pip candle by candle with their own money!

16.15pm DEALING DESK VS NO-DEALING DESK DEBATE. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR
THE TRADER?
Speaker Brendan Callan FXCM Chief Executive Officer Europe Speaker Muhammad Rasoul GFT Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer


16.45pm CLOSE

SPEAKER PROFILES

Kathleen Brooks FOREX.com
Kathleen Brooks is UK and EMEA research director at Forex.com based in London. She uses both fundamental and technical methods in her analysis. She provides daily research and market updates as well as a weekly webinar on market themes.
She is a regular contributor to Yahoo Finance, Reuters Great Debate Blog as well as a host of other international publications. She is often quoted in the global financial press and is a regular contributor on business TV including CNBC and CNBC Arabia. She started her career in finance at BP where she worked first as a business analyst in its trading division and then as a trading analyst in its foreign exchange dealing room. Prior to joining Forex.com she was a financial features writer for City A.M.
Kathleen holds an undergraduate degree in English Language and Classical Civilization from Trinity College Dublin, and a Master's of Science from The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University

Brendan Callan FXCM
Brendan Callan was appointed President of FXCM's European operations in 2010, and from 2005 to 2010 he was the company's Managing Director of Sales. Callan joined FXCM in 2001 and became the Managing Director of RefcoFX from 2003 to 2005. Callan graduated from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. in Finance/MIS in 2001 and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Zoe Fiddes easy-forex
With over four years of forex market experience, Zoe currently leads the easy-forex London office where she works closely with clients who trade forex and commodities. She provides traders with essential FX and commodity market information, and educates easy-forex clients by training them on technical and fundamental market dynamics. She also regularly runs FX seminars and webinars in the UK for novice and experienced traders. Prior to joining easy-forex in 2009, Zoe worked as a forex dealer at CMC Markets.

John Hardy Saxo Bank
John J. Hardy is Head of FX Strategy for Saxo Bank. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, John started at Saxo Bank in 2002 and today works from the Bank's London office. As author of the popular FX Update and FX Monthly columns on Tradingfloor.com, John has developed an extensive following among Saxo Bank's clients, the press and sales traders. He is a regular guest on CNBC and Bloomberg TV and consistently tops FX Week's currency forecasts index. In addition to writing regular ad-hoc commentary on G10 currencies, Central Bank policies and macroeconomic trends, John is a contributing author of Saxo Bank's Yearly Outlooks and the widely quoted "10 Outrageous Predictions."

Bill Hubard
After a career working within the main US/UK institutional banks and brokers Bill became the famous face of the Bloomberg-TV Big Board. Since his retirement he has become chief economist for Markets.com, and is a weekly guest on Bloomberg-TV and a regular guest on CNBC, CNN, BBC World Service,Fox Business News and France24.

Francis Hunt TraderManagement.com
Francis Hunt is a passionate Trader of the Markets, Macro Economic commentator and Futurist.
His speciality is High Probability, Fast Moving, Break out Trades. Francis Hunt is a soon to be published author, on his personally developed trading system involving The Hunt Volatility Funnel set up and will be introducing a number of new price behaviour based Technical Analysis tools to the field of technical analysis. Some of these include The Hunt Volatility Funnel itself and its significance to longer term trends, Key Levels of Significance (separate technical levels outside of Support & Resistance), Stall Points. Francis has also brought pattern trading and the Geometry of Continuation patterns to the fore. He has popularised a return to trading to key levels as well as having a defined profit exit and Target prior to entering a trade along with money management loss stops. He highlights loss of mental Neutrality when views are taken and plans trade entry and exit levels whether securing a profit or Loss prior to entry.

Sandy Jadeja - SignalPro
Sandy Jadeja has been involved with the financial markets for over 23 years and is a respected and widely recognized analyst and trainer in technical analysis.
Mr. Jadeja has had his comments featured in media venues as The Financial Times, The Telegraph, Barron's, The Australian Financial Journal, Futures Magazine, Shares Magazine, Dow Jones News, Reuters TV and The BBC.
Currently, he is featured as a weekly guest analyst on CNBC's Closing-Bell, Squawk Box and Investors Edge. Mr. Jadeja also created and provided an exclusive educational course on Technical Analysis for CNBC Europes Strictly Money program which was the first ever International educational TV program on Technical Analysis. He is also features on Cantos TV where he provides weekly education updates on Trading Strategies.

Russ Mould Shares Magazine
Russ Mould has 20 years' experience of the capital markets. He started at Scottish Equitable in 1991 as a fund manager before joining SG Warburg (now UBS investment bank) in 1993, where he worked as an equity analyst covering the technology sector. Russ was voted best analyst in the semiconductor sector in 2001 by 'Institutional Investor' and reached the level of Managing Director in 2003 when he became head of UBS' global semiconductor research effort. Russ joined 'Shares' in 2005 as technology correspondent and was appointed Editor in July 2008.

Muhammad Rasoul GFT
Muhammad Rasoul, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Since GFTs founding in 1997, Muhammad Rasoul has worked within the company in almost every capacity, from dealing and sales to software design, accounting, and strategic planning. Today, Rasoul serves as the companys executive vice president and chief operating officer.
Rasoul is responsible for development, product vision, technology selection and implementation, as well as internal and external information systems activities. Formerly, he performed as GFTs general manager and chief technology officer, helping the company establish its electronic trading infrastructure and breakthroughs in forex dealing software.
Prior to the introduction of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, Rasoul assisted regulatory officials in the design and implementation of forex trading practices and standards. He currently serves as a member of the NFA FX Advisory Board. He has published articles in various foreign exchange trade magazines and is often quoted by trade journalists. Rasoul holds a Series 3 commodity futures license and a Series 7 general securities license.

What about removing this thread from the top of - Investors room -" Bullshare "

There is no reason to stay pinned to the top of the board any more ( the event has gone ), otherwise as usual on other items on "moneyam", we will think is not working as it should be, some posters think how true for a while now.

Save the "pinned to the top" one ! :-)

How did it go? Anyone there, and was the live trading session any good?

That was one of the best conferences I have ever attended.

The Venue was impressive, the lunch superb and the speakers were entertaining, knowledgeable and informative.

Bill Hubbard was a speaker, wearing trade mark braces and full of wisdom from bygone days. According to Bill the ECB rate would remain unchanged for the foreseeable future. He put forward numerous and well presented arguments to support his views. The fact that the ECB rate actually did drop within the next hour in no way detracted from the entertainment value

Zoe Fiddes gave a concise overview into the arcane world of automated trading systems. I am now au fait with EAs etc. However, as I do not want to be responsible for starting WWIII, I will probably leave them alone.

The best show of the day was the "High Noon" confrontation between proponents of dealing desk v no-dealing desk providers, GFT and FXCM, Muhammed Rasoul and Brendan Callan respectively.
Both speakers were Very American. Muhammed Rasoul gave a fascinating but completely incomprehensible insight into the mechanics of the GFT system. he followed this with a statistical analytic comparison between GFT and the other MMs and brokers, or agencies and other things which he preferred to call them. At the end of his performance I was utterly,(almost) in favour of GFT.
!5 minutes later, after Brendan's systematic annihilation of GFT's arguments, I was back to square one. It must be very confusing to be American.
It did warm my heart when both speakers agreed not to take questions from their staff planted in the audience. The first question to FXCM was a real kick in the nether regions from a well rehearsed member of the public who wanted to know why FXCM had been fined millions of follars in the USA. Brendan soon put our minds at rest as it happened a long, time ago, 2008/9 and could never happen again.
Muhhammed gave an equally convincing, succinct, response to awkward questions by saying that the answer was yes and no to all of them.

The live trading Guru had a hard act to follow, but he did put on a good show. He did lose money on his only live trade, but so what, I do that all the time.

Please do not be put off by any flippancy on my part, I really did enjoy the day.

PS. Bullie did a good job too!

Thanks Bob, sounds like fun. And a very humorous post by you :-) I like the idea of 2008-9 being such a long time ago.

Well it was a long time ago compared to September 2010 when they were last found to be 'at it'. And even longer ago than August 2011 when they were fined $2m for their shenanigans. Maybe they didn't mention that bit to their rep, or perhaps those dates don't count. :)

NFA Complaint - August 12th 2011

Suggest you Google MT4 Virtual Dealer Plugin by Boston Technologies if you really want to learn how those scrotums rip-off your average retail punter.

I see FXCM had 40,000 margin liquidation orders in the first 9 months of 2010. That's a hell of a lot of people overtrading!

Bob; Thanks for the after thought:-0)


Some other great comments by email from attendees and sponsors, so we will be repeating this in April 2012.

mike

If anyone wants to see the various presentations they are available at:

Forex Conference Speaker Presentations