On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Market Technicians Association, I want to personally encourage you to attend the 2010 Annual Symposium in New York City. This year’s event will be held at the prestigious Hudson Theatre in the Millennium Hotel, Times Square from Thursday May 20th – Friday May 21st. Our theme, Global Strategy & Tactics: Risk Management Solutions for the Institutional Investor, represents an overarching thesis for two full days of ground breaking thought leadership in the field of technical analysis.
Our keynote speakers this year include Mary Ann Bartels, John Bollinger, Jeremy du Plessis, Mark Fisher, and Larry Williams. Presentations from these leading voices in the technical community form the core of the entire event. Their thoughts on topics ranging from breadth to volatility, trading to investing, and asset class specifics to global inter-market analysis represent cutting edge ideas useful for navigating today’s markets.
Between these fine speakers, attendees at this year’s Annual Symposium will enjoy the most robust set of panel presentations in years. To wit, herein follows a description of this year’s panels:
Media Panel: Managing Media Communication; Effective Strategy & Tactics to Expand Your Market Exposure
This panel will explore the challenge of effectively communicating technical market strategies to a fundamentally oriented financial services industry. Panel members will be encouraged to present case studies reflecting successful and unsuccessful communications campaigns, and will engage in addressing a wide range of related topics, including how the financial media treats technical analysis as a whole.
Master Trading Panel: Technical Analysis As A Risk Management Tool
This panel will explore the application of technical analysis as a risk management tool in professional trading. We’ll explore the risk management impact of technical analysis on macro trading factors including market & product selection, trading style and asset class selection, pre=market trade analysis, position sizing, risk reward, entries, stop loss orders, targets, trailing stops and post-trade analysis.
Institutional Money Management Panel: A Practitioners Review of Technical Analysis & Portfolio Management
We’ll explore the prevalence of technical analysis as a primary method of money management as practiced by institutional buy side managers. Panel participants will be encouraged to illustrate primary methods of money management segmented by style and asset class. Special attention will be given to the opportunity for international industry growth, in turn profiling common characteristics of institutions allocating funds towards technical managers.
2010 Market Forecast Panel: Assessing Global Market Risk
Our organization’s hall market panel, this year’s market forecast will provide a risk assessment for global commodity, equity, fixed income and foreign exchange markets for the remainder of 2010. Panelists will be encouraged to detail the core thoughts which form their thesis, as well describe where the thesis itself might break down or markets could be headed in the next several years should their ideas play out.
Quantitative Research & Trading Panel: Do Quant’s Achieve Superior Risk Adjusted Returns?
Through a thorough examination of the question “Do systematic money managers outperform there discretionary counterparts?”, this panel will explore the benefits and challenges of systematic trading. Panel participants will be encouraged to broadly interpret the outperformance question itself in the context of their personal experience in the space. Panelists will also address the question in terms of both risk adjusted returns and business opportunity.
Institutional Research & Trading Panel: Examining the Evolution of Technical Research as Practiced by Institutional Professionals
This panel will explore the evolving role for technical research as practiced by institutional financial service professionals. Panel participants will be encouraged to demonstrate service offerings by research product, asset class, audience profile, marketing strategies, operational challenges, and regulatory hurdles. We’ll further delve into how to not only form a quality product, but also sustain it across what has become a truly global financial landscape.
MTA Past Presidents Panel: Global Demand for TA as a Risk Management Tool
Our final panel, this session serves several purposes. First, we plan to acknowledge the Past Presidents of the Market Technicians Association in attendance. Select members of this fine group will directly remark upon their personal experience as regards the emerging global demand for our profession. Finally, panelists will participate in presenting our organization’s annual awards to a select group of colleagues in our field deserved of recognition.
Certainly not the least important, this year’s Annual Symposium represents an incredible professional networking opportunity. The Seminar Committee has gone out of its way to ensure the event is well attended by industry leaders in our profession, and your attendance will ensure you will benefit in immeasurable ways. If there is only one event you will attend in 2010 – this is it!
I want to personally encourage you to invite your colleagues, both professional and personal, regardless of their affiliation with the Market Technicians Association. We have truly become a world class organization with a robust offering all financial professionals – buy side to sell side, discretionary to systematic, and (yes) fundamental to technical – can appreciate and enjoy. Plainly put, our organization has evolved into a global association whose services and sense of “giving back” continues to impress me in ways few words can express.
Finally, I would also be remiss if I did not thank this year’s sponsors, as well as the staff of the Millennium Hotel, without whom this event would not be possible. Each of these industry leaders has “stepped up” in their own rite, and we look forward to engaging them during the event. Many will have booths in the theatre where we can each learn more about not only their offering, but also their thoughts as to new products in the pipeline critical to our collective success.
I look forward to seeing each of at this year’s Annual Symposium. In the interim, please do not hesitate to contact me directly with questions. As always, I stand willing to help each and every one of you in any way that I can.
My best,
Jeff