With more than $2 Trillion in U.S. listed ETF assets, the demand from the Financial Advisor and Institutional communities continues to grow for what many hail as the premiere investment vehicle of the future.

This comprehensive 1 day program has been built upon the premise of allowing Advisors & Institutions the opportunity to take a deep dive into the most relevant investment themes. Our 5-star speaking faculty will be at your disposal to address cutting edge topics and answer questions.

DATE
April 24, 2018

TIME
8:00AM – 6:00PM

AGENDA
8:00-8:45 – Registration/Continental Breakfast – sponsored by Nottingham
8:45-9:00 – Welcome – Chris Romano, Director of Research, ETF Global
9:00-9:30 – Key Note – Doug Peta, Global ETF Strategy, BCA Research
9:35-10:25 – New-to-Market ETF Roundtable – sponsored by US Bancorp Fund Services
10:25-10:45 – Morning Break
10:50-11:40 – Leaders in Wealth Management – sponsored by Alps/Sector SPDRS
11:45-12:35 – The Need to Differentiate Among Smart Beta Strategies
12:35-1:40 – Luncheon & Networking Session sponsored by Innovation Shares
1:40-2:00 – ETF Global® Portfolio Challenge honoring the Fall 2017 Top 5 Winners – Jim Pacetti, Director of Marketing, ETF Global
2:00-2:50 – Today’s Complex World of Investing for Yield
2:55 – 3:10 Afternoon Break
3:15 – 4:05 – Artificial Intelligence in ETFs: A New Frontier? Sponsored by Nasdaq
4:10 – 5:05 – Around the Globe: Best Opportunities for 2018
5:05-5:10 – Closing Remarks – Chris Romano, Director of Research, ETF Global
5:10-6:10 – Networking Cocktail Reception – sponsored by Pacer ETFs
There will be a private reception for attendees immediately following the program.

LOCATION
New York Athletic Club
180 Central Park South
New York, NY 10019
(212) 767-7000

Stocktoberfest East is the premiere StockTwits event on the East Coast. Located in the heart of midtown Manhattan, Stocktoberfest East is for traders, investors, fintech entrepreneurs, technologists, media and financial institutions, all discussing “What’s next?” for the financial markets. The event will feature prominent industry leaders, startup company demos, and executive fireside chats. Join us and gain an edge on investing in 2018.

DATE
April 25, 2018

TIME
8:00AM – 6:00PM

AGENDA
8:00 am – Breakfast & Networking
9:00 am – Welcome to Stocktoberfest East
9:15 am – Howard’s State of the Market
9:30 am – Technology & Asset Management @ Fidelity
10:00 am – Understanding the Crypto Product Roadmap
10:30 am – Building The First Exchange for Sneakers
10:50 am – Media Trends: All The News That Matters
11:20 am – Law & Coffee with Goodwin Procter
11:40 am – Hedge Fund Development: The Merger of Speed & Data
12:10 pm – Artificial Intelligence Eating Financial Services
12:40 pm – Tinder: Becoming a $13B Company in 5 Years
1:00 pm – Lunch
1:50 pm – Changing Narratives in the Financial Ecosystem
2:10 pm – Perspectives on Regulating Wall Street
2:30 pm – The Arc of Kase Capital
2:50 pm – Venture Capital: FinTech Investing
3:20 pm – Artifical Intelligence & Coffee with Trade Ideas
3:40 pm – Fractionalization & Decentralization of Markets
4:00 pm – Chart Bracket Challenge
4:20 pm – Investing in Cannabis
4:40 pm – Closing Keynote: The Playbook for Digital Currency Group
5:10 pm – Cocktails & Cryptocurrencies with CryptoGlobal

LOCATION
Guastavino’s
409 E 59th St.
New York, NY 10022

Pullbacks often seem daunting when they occur, but certain pullbacks provide an opportunity to partake in the bigger uptrend. This webcast will show how to qualify pullbacks and use them in a mean-reversion system. We will compare different exit strategies and also see if stop-losses improve or hurt system performance.

The Denver Chapter of Quantitative Work Alliance for Applied Finance, Education and Wisdom  invites you to their meeting on Thursday, April 26th.

TOPIC
Bitcoin: Predictability and Profitability via Technical Analysis
We document that Bitcoin returns, while largely unpredictable by macroeconomic variables, are predictable by 5- to 100-day moving averages (MAs) of its prices, both in-sample and out-of-sample. Trading strategies based on MAs generate substantial alpha, utility and Sharpe ratios gains, and significantly reduce the severity of drawdowns relative to a buy-and-hold position in Bitcoin, which already has a Sharpe ratio of 1.9. We explain these facts with a novel equilibrium model that demonstrates, in the absence of cash-flows, rational learning leads to joint predictability of returns by different horizon’s MAs.

PRESENTER
Jack Strauss, PhD
Miller Chair of Applied Economics at the Daniels School of Business, University of Denver

REGISTRATION
Early Bird       $20.00
At the Door    $25.00

The Dallas Chapter of the CMT Association invites you to our meeting Tuesday, May 1, 2018. We are pleased to have Paul McLaren, Managing Director of Enhance Your Options Pty Ltd as our guest speaker for this meeting.
We encourage you to bring clients and colleagues interested in technical analysis to this presentation. We look forward to seeing you there!
Vince Regan, CMT
John Suvanto, CMT
Matt Trump, CMT
Dallas Chapter Co-Chairs

DATE
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

TIME
6:30PM

TOPIC
Trading: It’s completely mental!
Paul will demonstrate that trading is completely mental by looking at cognitive biases in two parts:
* How we trade including mechanical versus discretionary trading, decision making and risk management.
* Why and what markets we trade, which trading platform / software we use, which instruments we trade with, which broker we use, and our approach to financial education and training.
Key to the presentation will be an attempt to model the cognitive biases together to demonstrate those we are susceptible to at each stage of the trade, rather than viewing them as distinct phenomenon as is typically the case.

PRESENTER
Paul McLaren

LOCATION
British Beverage Company
2800 Routh Street
Dallas, Texas 75201

REGISTRATION
Free to members and non-members