Breakout Sessions
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Intro to Equity Options
Skill Level: Beginner
Joseph Cusick
Join us for a 75-minute introduction to listed options. This class will define calls and puts plus view profit and loss graphs for these derivative instruments. We will also explain the overall risks and benefits of trading options.
Understanding Currency Inter-Market Relationships and Correlations In Developing Immediate Term Currency Option Trading Plans
Skill Level: Beginner
PHLX, Al Brinkman & Jack Crooks
Jack Crooks, President of Black Swan Capital and editor of the World Currency Options Alert Newsletter will take you through a fast paced and informative session designed to broaden your understanding of currency inter-market relationships and correlations. Jack will also cover the utilization of basic technical tools in developing an intermediate term trading approach for executing PHLX World Currency Option trades. Al Brinkman, Director of derivatives marketing at the PHLX will cover currency option spread strategies for intermediate term trading along with introducing currency cross rate (non-dollar) trading utilizing World Currency Options.
Diagonal Spreads vs. Covered Calls...Which Strategy is Best for You?
Skill Level: Intermediate
Mike Tosaw
Leverage has its advantages and disadvantages. In this workshop, you will have an opportunity to learn about a way that you can help leverage yourself if you like to trade covered calls as well as see how you can help guage if you are over leveraged if you are a diagonal spread trader. We will go over how time decay can work against you for each strategy.
Futures, Options & Stocks: Marrying the Market with Technology
Skill Level: Intermediate
DTI, Tom Busby
Professional Trader Tom Busby has been trading in the markets since the late 70's. From options, to equities and then to futures, Busby has seen and traded it all. In this session he aims to show you how to marry the three markets with powerful trading tools to help increase your accuracy, reduce your risk, and provide you with the structure and discipline required for trading in today's global market place.
Trade-Ideas Scan Development
Skill Level: Intermediate
Trade-Ideas, LLC, Brad Williams & David Aferiat
Forget MACD, Bollinger Bands, RSI, and the other letters for 30 minutes. Talk to us in English about the strategy you're looking for. Learn about how Trade-Ideas PRO seeks potential opportunities in the market, and attempts to capture the stocks that best meet the strategy you envision.
Time and Accuracy: Using Time to Tactically Position Your Trades
Skill Level: Intermediate
DTI, Tom Busby
Professional Trader Tom Busby will share his personal trading strategy which incorporates looking at the time of day, the time of week, the time of month and the time of year. Busby will give you insight into his trading approach that uses time as a key element to help determine when to pick high probability trade setups.
Trading Strategies to Use Around the Clock
Skill Level: Intermediate
DTI, Tom Busby
With the integration of online trading platforms trading the market is becoming more common. In this powerful educational session Professional Trader Tom Busby will attempt to show you the optimum times of day to help determine high probability trade setups. Busby will attempt to show you how to use the foreign indexes to make decisions about world news events, the U.S. economy and your own portfolio.
What Everybody Ought to Know About Backtesting: The OddsMaker
Skill Level: Intermediate
Trade-Ideas, LLC, David Aferiat
Backtesting applications can furnish years of historical data on the performance of indicators for specific stocks. The tools are designed to help produce stock specific results across any time frame. Flip this equation. The OddsMaker produces the entire universe of stocks that attempt to match a custom "event" you develop and sums the trading results over the most recent market activity. This is event-based backtesting — trading without this cumulative information is too risky.
Automated Trading: Trade-Ideas Tools Designed to Reduce Human Error and Save Time
Skill Level: Intermediate
Trade-Ideas, LLC, Brad Williams
All of the variables, priorities, and details of trading can often overwhelm the success of a trade. With steps in the trading process manually performed by a trader, many chances exist to ruin a trade that initially seemed profitable. Witness an integrated suite of tools that removes potential mistakes in a trade by evaluating the profitable odds of a trader's idea or theme in the market before risking any capital and attempts to move through execution to a closed position.
Why the dollar could rally in 2008!
Skill Level: Intermediate
PHLX, Al Brinkman & Jack Crooks
Join Jack Crooks, President of Black Swan Currency Market Advisors and editor of the World Currency Options Alert Newsletter and Al Brinkman, Director of Derivatives Marketing at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange as they present the scenarios looming on the horizon that could lead to a significant rally in the dollar in 2008, and what World Currency Options strategies might best allow you to trade this dollar rally.
Expanding Your Trading Choices
Skill Level: Advanced
CME, Dan Gramza
This presentation discusses how futures and futures on options may be a great addition to a stock and option traders aresenol. Critical and often overlooked features of the futures and options on futures markets will be explored. Learn the critical elements that traders may need to know before they trade futures. In this presentation internationally recognized trader and educator Daniel Gramza will present the growth patterns in CME Group futures, explore the potential opportunities of trading futures, show how futures are traded and hwo to calculate the profit and loss of a futures trade, a step by step guide to a trader's first trade, margin requirement parameters and the essential elements of the trading decision process.
Futures 101
Skill Level: Advanced
Joseph Cusick
Join us for a seminar discussing the basics of the futures markets and trading futures. We will cover topics such as placing a futures trade, determining margin requirements, and calculating profit and loss.
24 Hour Trading
Skill Level: Advanced
CME, Dan Gramza
Daniel Gramza will begin with a macro view of the importance of understanding that the trading day goes beyond your time zone, and show specific examples and trading techniques on how you may be able to capitalize on events and new market players due to the electronic trading boom. If you are interested in understanding how the markets have changed with 24-hour trading, and how that impacts trading strategies and pricing mechanisms, don't miss this presentation.
Innovative Japanese Candle Trading Strategies Applied to CME Products
Skill Level: Advanced
CME, Dan Gramza
Hear about new trading strategies and gain insights into the CME markets with the power of Japanese candle charting. Daniel Gramza will be presenting an in-depth look at his unique proprietary Japanese Candle trading strategies. You will learn how they may be applied across all market sectors and how to identify potential trade opportunities that you may be able to use to enhance your current trading approach. Hear the rationale behind various trading strategies as Daniel applies these techniques to current markets selected by the participants.
Intro to Spreads
Skill Level: Advanced
Mike Tosaw
"Spread" is a loosely used term that can describe any multi-part strategy. In this breakout, we will introduce you to the Bull Call Spread, Bear Call Spread and Diagonal Spreads. This event aims to provide you a better understanding of spreads and how they may be an alternative to trading options speculatively.
PHLX Currency Options Trading - Putting Analysis into Action
Skill Level: Advanced
PHLX, Al Brinkman & Jack Crooks
Join us on-line for a fast paced and in-depth look at recent developments in currency markets. Jack Crooks; President of Black Swan Currency Market Advisors and editor of the World Currency Options Alert will speak about recent currency market developments. Al Brinkman, Director of derivatives marketing at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange will offer some PHLX World Currency option-based strategies for you to consider.