STA Monthly Meeting October 2007
Most members will be familiar with the “Road Map”, his proprietary system for codifying the interaction between the various market and economic cycles. On this occasion, he will focus one aspect of seasonality –which month is, indeed the cruellest. TS Elliot opted for April, but wasn’t known to be a technical analyst. April may prove disappointing, bearing in mind “Sell in May, and go away”, but, arguably, October should take the accolade, with 1929, 1987 and the aftermath of 9/11 being the most obvious examples.
Robin Griffiths is one of the world’s most experienced and highly regarded market analysts. Together with Rashpal Sohan, Robin is joint managing editor of Dynamic Investment Trends Alert, published by Southbank Investment Research.
STA Monthly Meeting September 2007
Systematic Trading, devoid of human emotions has become the “holy grail” of trading. Technical trading approaches can now be quantified, tested and validated using a variety of system testing packages. The theories of the old master technicians can now be tested and validated in real-time. The talk will focus upon how to produce and validate a variety of technical trading systems; then moving from theory to the practical application of system trading.
David will present “Examples of Trading Systems – A diverse collection of systematic methods”. Shaun will present “Testing Trading Systems – Finding the systems that really work”. Finally Francesco will round up the evening with, “Using Trading Systems – Putting it all together in practice”.
David is a Trading System Consultant and professional engineer. He first became involved with the LIFFE markets after being commissioned to provide IT support and write a trading model for a number of LIFFE traders in 1992. Since then he has used his engineering expertise on a number of innovative trading projects
David is founder and CEO of Updata, which he founded in 1991. Updata now has technical analysis clients in over 60 countries with offices in London and New York. David is a member of the American Association of Professional Technical Analysts and holds the Master Financial Technical Analyst qualification awarded by the International Federation of Technical Analysts. He is a well known market commentator in the press and on finance TV. He is the author of Cloud Charts: Trading success with the Ichimoku technique.
Shaun is Head of Technical Analysis at charting software provider CQG. He provides daily research to CQG clients such as banks and hedge funds and is highly regarded for the reliability of his market forecasts. He is also a partner at Oasis Research.
Francesco has been developing and trading with systems since 1996. From 2000 to 2003 he ran a systematic prop trading operation at Banca Intesa in London, and from 2003 has managed the Pioneer Systematic Diversified hedge fund for Pioneer Alternative Investments, based in Dublin.
STA Monthly Meeting & Summer Party July 2007
In his allotted span of some 30 minutes, Glyn aims to cover: An update on key Bollinger Band techniques; an update on trendline and channel definition; finally, what constitutes a reversal. At first sight, these might appear to be disparate topics. Using the analogy of a jigsaw puzzle, however, they do fit together very well, to give the “big picture” of price performance in markets. Aspects of these subjects were covered in his excellent talk of seven years ago, but he has undertaken considerable development work in the intervening period.
Glyn Bradney was a trader / chief dealer in the London money markets for 20 years after graduating from Imperial College in Chemistry! His long standing membership to the STA goes back to the days of our predecessor, ACTA. In 1992 he joined Reuters, now Thomson Reuters, and continues to work there, having global responsibility for graphics and technical analysis.
STA Monthly Meeting June 2007
Nick will give a brief history of those analysts that have influenced him. His methodology is a combination of Japanese Candlesticks and Point and Figure charts to establish trade direction, on varying time horizons. These are reinforced with momentum studies, (RSI, Relative Strength etc) and his own easy to read proprietary indices. He will outline his use of his chosen trading tools and give examples of successful applications, along with some views on the current market outlook.
Nick Batsford has 20 years experience of financial markets, including dealing on LIFFE and the LSE. He started with software vendor Market Age plc and then worked for various trading and brokerage companies.
STA Monthly Meeting May 2007
Guido reckons to meet around 20-25 people interested in TA every week. Most of these meetings end up covering DeMark, and very often with the same questions. The main interest is how to trade the signals and which signals should be more closely observed than others. The presentation will show how within TD Sequential and TD Combo there is more information than at first meets the eye. Delayed perfections, compressed setups, disqualified breakouts, clustering of signals and retracements will be covered, as well as suggestions on how to include in the analysis TD Differential and TD Camo. There have been other presentations on the DeMark indicators, but he hopes to present some new suggestions on how to use these amazing tools.
After completing an MBA in finance, Guido worked at Delta Forex, an Italian consultancy specialising in Elliott Wave analysis on currencies. In 1998 he started at Bloomberg, where his first task was to set up the TA group for the Analytics desk, supporting the European Head of Technical Analysis. In January 2005 he was promoted to Head of TA for the EMEA region.
STA Monthly Meeting April 2007
Richard will describe his methodology. The central theme of his talk will be the focus on the technical factors which led to the conclusion that the American equity market had seen its nadir around mid-1982, anticipating by around six months the fundamental economic evidence that America was no longer in recession. He will then discuss how the precepts which underlie his work can be applied to the present conjunction of themes.
Richard has a long held interest in technical analysis, working for some years in collaboration with other published analysts, including Teddy Clarke, one of the founder members of ACTA, while in Teather & Greenwood.
STA Monthly Meeting March 2007
Despite the many excellent studies and oscillators available, for Paddy “market price” is the primary indicator. In his market analysis he gives significant weight to support and resistance levels and (to a lesser extent) trend lines, particularly in relation to identifying the strength of investor sentiment around these price levels. The behaviour (illustrated by the price action) around a level – whether it breaks or holds – can give a very good indication of how prices will act around that level in the future. He will use FX, commodities and stock index charts to demonstrate how he evaluates the significance of line breaks in his market analysis.
Paddy Osborn has spent more than 20 years as a trader, technical analyst and technical analysis service provider. He traded Japanese Equity Derivatives at NKK before moving to TraderMade, and has recently joined BETA Group, providing seminars on TA and behavioural finance to City firms.
STA Monthly Meeting February 2007
In 2000 Clive set up FuturesTechs, which has built up a solid subscriber base (mainly comprising of Day Traders) for its daily service, which now covers 28 markets. Many of these clients have also benefited from Clive’s lively training seminars, which he has also presented for the STA’s education programme.
In his few years as an active member of the STA he has often been asked who these short term traders are, how they trade, and how they use technical analysis. In this talk he will attempt to unveil some of these answers and give an insight into the technical methods employed by these active traders, who, as a group, account for a sizeable chunk of daily volumes on many of the world’s leading exchanges.
Clive is the founder, and continues to be the main contributor, for FuturesTechs. He has been in the City for 24 years, has been in the futures market for 20 years as a broker and trader, and has been writing technical analysis for over 10 years. He is the author of the book “Candlestick Charts: An Introduction to Using Candlestick Charts”.
STA Monthly Meeting January 2007
Making money in markets is somewhat easier when we can identify the big secular trends. Eoin will look at international markets and attempt to differentiate between what are likely to be the much larger secular trends and those where a medium-term cyclical move is taking place. To do this he will make extensive use of Fullermoney.com’s online Chart Library which has a number of long-term historical ratios not commonly found on other systems. He will outline his view of where markets are going in 2007 and identify risks which could add to future volatility.
Eoin is a global strategist at www.fullermoney.com. Following a degree in Philosophy, he spent nearly four years with Bloomberg, where he became a student of market psychology and taught numerous seminars across Europe.
STA Monthly Meeting & Christmas Party December 2006
Admitting that he does use Technical Analysis, albeit as the cadet branch of his input, Anthony has addressed the Society before. In his allotted span of some 40 minutes, he will outline his approach, and how and why Technical Analysis contributes to his decisions, particularly on Larger Capitalization stocks where the advantage of fundamental analysis is often lessened due to the sheer size and diversity of the companies as investments.
The Executive Committee thought this was an appropriate way to mark and celebrate the closing of the 20th Anniversary of the Society’s incorporation, from its previous form as ACTA.
Anthony hardly needs any introduction, even to those members who claim not to read newspapers! The best known, and arguably the best performing fund manager of his generation, having read engineering at Cambridge, Anthony opted for the City, cutting his teeth during the turbulent markets of the 1970’s at Keyser Ullmann.
STA Monthly Meeting November 2006
Richard is not going to teach any ground breaking new techniques, as his approach can be regarded as very traditional, but will talk about how he successfully uses what he believes to be the three most important building blocks in any day to day analysis – Sentiment, Momentum and Trending, showing how very simple rules can be applied to markets. As well as highlighting his approach, Richard will also take a look at how these can be applied to the current outlook in Fixed Income, FX and Stock markets.
Richard Adcock is managing director, Adcock Analysis, an independent technical research service, offering subscriptions for weekly reports and daily updates, on FX and rates markets. Adcock Analysis Ltd has been voted top independent technical research house for FX in 2017 & 2018, and Richard Top Fixed Income Technical Strategist, in the Technical Analyst magazine poll for 2009, 2011 & 2013, as well as runner up in 2010 and 2012. Top spot in the best Fixed Income Technical Analyst section of the Extel Awards was also achieved during his time with UBS.
STA Monthly Meeting October 2006
Aboudy started off working as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen, before trading his own account since the end of 2001. His talk is aimed at challenging traditional technical analysis and analysts who, in his opinion, spend too much time looking for “pretty” chart patterns rather than focus on what technical analysis is meant to be, which, according to him, is a tool to aid real-world trading. Aboudy would like to stimulate thought, reach into the spirit of technical analysis and open up new ideas and ways at analysing charts for real trading.
He will be discussing the rise in program trading and its effect on the technical analysis discipline. With the growing trend in machines rather than humans carrying out trading, questions will be raised on the use of conventional technical analysis and its relevance in the modern marketplace. Aboudy will be discussing his views on the future of technical analysis and his opinions on how as market technicians, we need to go back to the heart of technical analysis to help us face the future. To assist in this, Aboudy will be demonstrating VIA Trader as the first real time technical news service designed to provide a stream of valuable analysis and in depth commentary to allow for rapid assimilation of key market information.
Aboudy Nasser is the founder and Director of VIA Trader, an automated real time technical market news commentary service.
STA Monthly Meeting September 2006
Stuart has looked at many facets of technical analysis, but, on the whole, prefers the straightforward reading of price action via bar or line charts, and looking for trends and patterns in weekly, daily, hourly and tick bar charts. He uses a great deal of intuition, contrarian opinion and psychology, allied to the price action – essentially to keep it simple, and stick to the techniques that work for him as an individual. He will attempt to provide examples covering the main avenues.
Stuart started his career with National Westminster Bank in New York, as a foreign exchange dealer and gravitated to head of chart analysis for Nat West Markets in the 1990’s back in London.
STA Monthly Meeting & Summer Party July 2006
John’s talk will focus on the current developments in emerging markets, which are providing plenty of textbook patterns. For those not following these markets closely, it is worth bearing in mind that they should not be considered as an homogeneous bloc, but are in different stages of development, and can show widely differing characteristics, the recent, fairly indiscriminate sell-off notwithstanding. As part of his theme, John will consider to what extent the old jibe is still true, “Emerging markets are those from which it is difficult to emerge!”
John graduated in Accounting & Finance from Exeter University in 2000, and joined Citigroup. His initial position was on the proprietary trading desk, trading Spot FX and Interest Rate futures, together with writing technically based research. In 2002, he moved to focus completely on technical research.
STA Monthly Meeting June 2006
Most members will be familiar with the “Road Map”, his proprietary system for codifying the interaction between the various market and economic cycles. As a seasoned sailor, he is more qualified than most to stipulate, “Always look at the chart”. Whilst the Society has always adopted a purist attitude to performance claims in notices, his Road Map should be a much more reliable indicator of present position, direction and route in markets than some of the SatNav systems now on offer, judging by recent press comments!
Robin Griffiths is one of the world’s most experienced and highly regarded market analysts. Together with Rashpal Sohan, Robin is joint managing editor of Dynamic Investment Trends Alert, published by Southbank Investment Research.