STA Monthly Meeting – March 2016
During this presentation, Tom DeMark will show some of his new tools as well as touching on some of the celebrated studies, used the world over.
Tom will be known to many of you as the creator of the DeMARK Indicators® and the founder and CEO of DeMARK Analytics, LLC. The DeMARK studies are known internationally for their objective and mechanically-driven approach to both trading and investing, and are designed to anticipate potential price activity in the financial markets. Mr. DeMark has spent more than 40 years developing, trading and teaching his techniques to institutional professionals around the world, and continues to be actively involved in the financial markets.
STA Monthly Meeting – February 2016
Riccardo Ronco, Head of Technical Analysis at Aviate Global, will speak on Trend Following – two problems (and possible solutions) for application to equities.
Riccardo follows large- and mid-cap European and U.S. equities, paying attention to domestic and foreign equity indices, currencies, commodities, and interest rates. As a medium-term trend follower, his approach is strongly quantitative in nature; particular attention, however, is devoted to identifying reversal patterns characterized by excessive consensus among investors.
He brings more than 15 years of experience in trading, quantitative analysis, and teaching technical analysis in the United Kingdom and Ialy. Prior to joining Aviate Global in April 2010, Riccardo worked for Credit Agricole Indosuez, Banca Intesa Group, and Banca AntonVeneta (MontePaschi Group) and FBR Capital Markets.
He is a frequent guest on CNBC Europe and other European media outlets. A member of the Society of Technical Analysts (STA) from 2000 to 2015 and the Market Technicians Association (MTA), Mr. Ronco was a speaker at the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) 1998 conference in Rome, in Beijing (2011) and in New York for the MTA 2015 Symposium.
His work is mentioned in the book Capital Market Revolution: The Future of Markets in an Online World by Patrick Young.
Riccardo follows large- and mid-cap European and US equities, paying attention to domestic and foreign equity indices, currencies, commodities and interest rates. As a medium-term trend follower, his approach is strongly quantitative in nature; particular attention, however, is devoted to identifying reversal patterns characterized by excessive consensus among investors.
STA Monthly Meeting – January 2016
The STA 2016 meetings programme will commence with a Panel Debate giving a market outlook for the year ahead.
This year’s panel debate will be chaired by Nicole Elliott MSTA. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science (BSc Social Psychology) Nicole has worked in banks in the City of London for the last 30 years. Whether in sales, trading or forecasting technical analysis has always been the bedrock of her thinking.
Stéphanie is Senior Technical Analyst, joining SG CIB in 2006 where she first developed the Commodity technical analysis before developing and coordinating the cross-asset technical analysis with a special focus on Forex and Rates. Stéphanie has 15 years experience in technical analysis on various financial markets and from 2000 to 2005 she lectured technical analysis at Paris IX Dauphine University to BSc students.
David Fuller is a global strategist and Chairman of Fuller Treacy Money http://www.fullertreacymoney.com. He joined the STA in 1970 and is also a Fellow of the Society.
Christian is a Senior Consultant to the London Metal Exchange. He started his professional career 1979 as an apprentice at Metallgesellschaft AG in Frankfurt, Main. After years in Cologne and London he joined the Copper Department in Frankfurt and was finally appointed one of the four members of the all Commodities Managing Team (Geschaeftsbereichsleitung).
After graduating from the London School of Economics Nicole Elliott started her banking career in the City of London in 1982. Whether in trading, sales or an advisory capacity Technical Analysis has been the bedrock of her methodology.
STA AGM & Christmas Party – December 2015
This year’s Annual General Meeting will be held at the British Bankers Association in London on Tuesday the 8th of December 2015. It will be followed by a monthly talk and the STA Christmas Party (members only).
The guest speaker will be Russell Napier, an independent strategist at, and co-founder of, ERIC, an online platform for the sale of high-quality individually priced investment research. He is the author of “The Solid Ground,” a global macro report originally published by CLSA and now published independently. Mr. Napier is a director of the Mid Wynd International Investment Trust and the Scottish Investment Trust. He runs a two-day course in financial history (“A Practical History of Financial Markets”) aimed at professional investors and launched a new business and financial history library, the Library of Mistakes. Mr. Napier is also the author of Anatomy of the Bear: Lessons from Wall Street’s Four Great Bottoms.
The talk will be followed by the Christmas Party.
Russell Napier, ASIP, is an independent strategist at and co-founder of ERIC, an online platform for the sale of high-quality individually priced investment research. He is the author of “The Solid Ground,” a global macro report originally published by CLSA and now published independently. Mr. Napier is a director of the Mid Wynd International Investment Trust and the Scottish Investment Trust.
STA Monthly Meeting – November 2015
In this presentation Steve will talk about his work with traders and fund managers and how he utilises specific tools and strategies from performance psychology, neuroscience, stress physiology, decision science and mindfulness based approaches to help them to enhance their performance, improve their decision making and maximise their returns.
Steve Ward, Trader Performance and Psychology Coach, has spent over ten years working with traders, trading desks and fund managers from banks, hedge funds, global energy companies, asset management funds, proprietary trading groups and with independent traders helping them to enhance their performance, improve their decision making and maximise their returns through coaching, training and consulting interventions.
Steve is the author of ‘High Performance Trading – 35 Practical Strategies To Enhance Your Trading Psychology and Performance’ (Harriman House, 2009), ‘TraderMind – Get A Mindful Edge In The Markets’ (Wiley, 2014) and ‘Sports Betting To Win – The 10 Keys To Disciplined and Profitable Betting’ (Harriman House, 2010). He was the consultant trading performance coach to BBC TV’s ‘Million Dollar Traders’ series, co-managed a team of 45 professional proprietary traders in London, and has been featured in interviews with both Reuters and Bloomberg Markets . He has also traded stock indicies and FX on his own account.
STA Monthly Meeting – October 2015
Jeremy du Plessis FSTA, Updata, addressed members at the STA October meeting.
Point and Figure is just as important today as it was 150 years ago. Jeremy will discuss how it has evolved over the years without losing any of it’s unique character and how it fits into 21st Century analysis.
Jeremy is head of technical analysis at Updata and founded Indexia Research in 1983. Jeremy is an expert on Point and Figure charts. He lectures the Point and Figure module for the STA, and sets the Point and Figure module for the International Federation of Technical Analysts.
STA Monthly Meeting – September 2015
In his talk Julius gives a brief introduction on Relative Rotation Graphs, their background, construction and interpretation and then focuses on a number of the most frequently asked questions that he ran into after their introduction in 2011.
Julius de Kempenaer is the creator of Relative Rotation Graphs™ which are available on Bloomberg since January 2011 under the mnemonic RRG<GO>. Julius is the Director of RRG research and based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Graduated from the Dutch Royal Military Academy (KMA) in 1986. In 1990 he left the air force as a captain and entered the financial industry as a portfolio manager for Equity & Law (now part of AXA investment managers).
In 1992 Julius moved to IRIS/Robeco as a buy-side quant/technical analyst until 1997 when RABObank acquired Robeco. He then moved to RABObank International as head of technical analysis on the trading floor in Utrecht. Until June 2007 he served in a similar role on the trading floor of Kempen & Co. in Amsterdam. From 2007 to mid 2014 Julius was the director of quantitative strategy at Taler Asset Management Ltd. where he co-authored various asset allocation strategies that have been successfully implemented in discretionary managed accounts as well as a UCITS investment fund.
He left Taler in 2014 to be able to solely focus on the growth of RRG research primarily through partnerships with professional data vendors and software developers to make RRGs™ available to a wider audience and provide relative strength based research to professional investors and professional entities (websites, brokers, asset managers etc) that serve retail clients.
STA Monthly Meeting & Summer Party – July 2015
Philip Gray, a founder member of the STA will present Bubbles, Baths and Blood, Personal Reminisces of some Great Historical International Events at the annual STA Summer Party.
Philip Gray has over 30 years’ international experience in all aspects of investment banking, especially investment management and stock broking. He has also been a director of various companies listed on the UK, Zurich, Frankfurt and Johannesburg stock exchanges, and is currently a director of an ASX listed industrial company.
STA Monthly Meeting – June 2015
Since the 1960s cognitive psychology has demonstrated many apparently unrelated ‘heuristics’ that lead to cognitive errors. Behavioural Finance, which is the study of how these errors affect financial decisions, has developed rapidly since its start in the early 1990s, but it remains an unstructured area of research and the effects of some of the heuristics seem to contradict each other.
Dr Anderson surveys the most important heuristics with some surprising examples and relates them to how investors think. He will also cover in detail why we might expect these heuristics to weigh particularly heavily on the decisions of financial analysts and fund managers.
- We don’t think how we think we think – examples
- Information processing problems: Forecasting errors, Overconfidence, Conservatism, Sample size neglect, Representativeness, Availability
- Biased decision making: Framing, Mental Accounting, Regret Avoidance, Prospect Theory
- Experts’ decisions: Historical examples, Configural processing, Economic forecasts
- Analysts’ forecasts: Over-optimism, Herding, Career concerns
- Fund managers: Groupthink, Short-termism, Benchmarks, Career concerns
Dr Keith Anderson worked in systems development for some years, latterly at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, before becoming interested in finance as a private investor. He is currently a Lecturer in Finance at the York Management School, University of York.
STA Monthly Meeting – May 2015
Gerry’s talk will cover the use of chart analysis in modelling long term trends in a multi-asset world, whilst working down to useful short term trading ideas.
Gerry Celaya runs Redtower Asset Management which advises banks, brokers, hedge funds, central banks and real money managers. Gerry has been a professional technical analyst for over 25 years and still learns something new every day, and firmly believes that the best way to learn is to have the courage to make mistakes.
STA Monthly Meeting – April 2015
Julien Camberlin will present new ideas about how markets behave according to Elliott Waves, Chaos Theory and Fractals. These ideas have been developed in his MFTA.
His studies explain how Fibonacci ratios are formed by strange attractors that are part of the chaos theory and that prices are not stopped by Fibonacci ratios but are rather attracted by them and vibrate in their direction, according to fractal model.
The idea that markets movements are vibrating in the direction of objectives is a real revolution in the understanding of market formation.
Julien Camberlin, CFTe, MFTA, CEWA Level 1, member of SAMT As an Elliott wave specialist, Julien Camberlin has developed new ideas about how markets behave according to Elliott Waves, Chaos Theory and Fractals. His studies explain that prices are not […]
STA Monthly Meeting – March 2015
On his talk, Yann says “Most long-only asset managers use a fundamental approach in their process – especially in the equity world. However, that does not mean portfolio construction and market timing are not part of their plan. The way such managers use technical analysis is generally twofold: (i) upstream, to target the size of their cash pocket, leverage, or beta; and (ii) downstream, as a timing tool to enter a new position, trade around it and eventually exit.
We think a third dimension is worth emphasizing, too: sector momentum analysis based on the relative strength concept. The information such charts can bring to the portfolio manager are particularly useful if you use several methods and a multi-timeframe analysis. After showing the additional information given by relative charts, we shall compare different methods and try to determine the most relevant combination of technical indicators to carry out sector analysis. Finally, we will analyse the current shape of DJ Stoxx 600 subsectors in order to build a European equity portfolio based on a top-down approach.
Yann has been working as a European equity portfolio manager at AXA Framlington since 2006, following 7 years spent in a similar role with Barclays Asset Management. Previously he worked as a sell-side analyst for a French stockbroker.
STA Monthly Meeting – February 2015
In his talk, Clive will discuss the evolution of the Market Profile and particularly recent advancements that are gaining traction on the other side of the pond, specifically “Auction Market Theory”; looking at “Volume at Price” data over longer time periods to establish where “Value” is for a market, and levels of acceptance for said value.
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 2015
During his talk Saeed will focus on what the ancient world can teach us about modern money markets. How can we use examples from the ancient world, philosophers and writers to better understand the markets? Just as historians such as Herodotus living in ancient Greece examined the past, can traders look to their past to learn something new? Based on the rationale that if your primary objective is purely to make money from trading quickly, you can make decisions that perversely increase the likelihood of losing; Saeed will examine how successful trading can actually be achieved as a by-product of good trading. Relating concepts from the ancient world, such as water and risk, diversified knowledge, Herodotus and historical bias to the modern world money markets, Saeed demonstrates that by focusing on goals that go beyond making money, lateral thinking, targeting risk adjusted returns, and keeping drawdowns in check, investors will indirectly make more money in the long run.
Saeed Amen is a Managing Director and a Co-founder at Thalesians Ltd, currently publishing ground-breaking quant strategy notes, drawing upon nearly a decade of experience both creating and running systematic trading models successfully with real cash. Independently, he is also […]
STA Monthly Meeting & Christmas Party – December 2014
Lee believes in keeping it simple. His best trading strategies are easy to follow but can provide some fantastic trading profits.
During his presentation Goals to Gold, he’ll be talking about the similarities between professional sportsmen and professional traders and the skills set that both require.
Following an 18 year career in professional football, Lee Sandford has traded for nearly 20 years (full time 13 years) and earns his living predominantly as a trader.
Next STA Meeting
STA Monthly Meeting – May 2024
In this talk, Rajan Dhall MSTA will pay homage to the skills he learned at the STA. Raj used traditional tools and adapted them over a 15-year career to create a profitable trading strategy that ultimately led him to manage a group of traders at his new prop firm DND Capital. Rajan will explain how some of the strategies work and explain some of the results he has achieved from the three flagship strategies that the firm utilizes.
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STA Monthly Meeting – June 2024
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