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2005-2006 Schedule

Meeting # 1:
Speaker: Ralph Acampora
Date: Tuesday September 20, 2005
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
 

Ralph J. Acampora, CMT, Managing Director, Global Equity Research, serves as Prudential Equity Group, LLC Director of Technical Analysis. He is a widely recognized industry leader in the field of Technical Market Analysis. Mr. Acampora is a regular panelist on the popular weekly TV show, Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser. He is regularly consulted for his opinion about the market by major national newspapers throughout the country including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Business Week, USA Today, and hundreds of local papers. Mr. Acampora has appeared on the NBC Nightly News, CNBC, CNN-FN and other business news stations. With nearly 30 years of technical experience, Mr. Acampora has been instrumental in the development of modern-day technical analysis. He co-founded the Market Technicians' Association in 1970, and is a past president of that group; founded and was the first chairman of the International Federation of Technical Analysts, comprising 4,000 colleagues around the world; and helped create the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) examination that now leads to the technicians' version of the CFA.

Meeting # 2:
Speaker: Joe Krutsinger, CTA
Date: Tuesday October 18, 2005
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
Files: Date: Tuesday October 18, 2005
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
Files: Tom Sprunger  ADX Trading Plan (.pdf file)
   

Joe Krutsinger began his futures and options career over twenty-six years ago with ContiCommodity. He has worked in every facet of the industry and continues to be a prolific developer of trading systems. He has developed proprietary trading programs for numerous clients and brokerage firms and currently works directly with clients and brokerage firms designing custom systems. Joe has been a trading system design consultant since 1989 and teaches traders how to develop systems using state of the art system automation software.

A featured speaker and teacher at seminars and meetings worldwide, Joe co-authored The Commodity Cookbook: Recipes for Success and was a contributing author to High Performance Futures Trading, Lessons from the Master. (This was the 1990 book of the year, the 1990 Supertrader's Almanac-Calendar edition). Joe has also been featured in the Future's Learning Center's three video courses, Trading Systems 101, 102 and 103.  Joe Holds License Block Number 0001 for Tradestation, as the first licensed user for that product.

Mr. Krutsinger's book, The Trading Systems ToolKit was Fortune Book Club Selection and his book Trading Systems, The Secrets from the Master published by McGraw-Hill in 1997 has been highly rated. His newest book, Trading Systems Secrets, Selecting a Winning System, is in paperback.

Meeting # 3:
Speaker: Stephen W. Bigalow
Date: Tuesday November 15, 2005
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
Stephen W. Bigalow possesses over twenty-five years of investment experience, including eight years as a stockbroker with major Wall Street firms: Kidder Peabody & Company, Cowen & Company and Oppenheimer & Company. This was followed by fifteen years of commodity trading, overlapped with twelve years of real estate investing. He holds a business and economics degree from Cornell University, and has lectured at Cornell and at many private educational investment functions over the past twenty years.

Mr. Bigalow has advised professional traders, money managers, mutual funds and hedge funds, and is recognized by many in the trading community as the "professional's professional."

Visit Steve's website, get his books and Candlestick Flash Cards here: http://www.candlestickforum.com/

 

Meeting # 4: * Second Tuesday Meeting due to Holidays
Speaker: James H. Jones
Date: Tuesday December 13, 2005
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
 

James H. Jones has been involved in the Futures industry since 1972. During this time Mr. Jones has focused his efforts on the development of technical research, pattern recognition and computerized models to help predict price movement. His research efforts have produced the HAL Blue Book, advancements in the HAL Method of Cyclical Analysis, Time and Price Windows, Cyclic Pattern Fitting (CPF), Equity Net, the HAL Oscillator and over 2,000 individual signals for trading the markets. An early leader in the use of computer analysis, Mr. Jones co-founded CompuTrac (a company that developed analytical software that set the standard for the futures industry, now a Telerate company). He has been the publisher of HALCO Trading Strategies since 1985 and has been quoted in Futures Magazine, Investors Daily, Barron’s, FWN and Cycles Magazine.

Mr. Jones graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1972 with a BBA degree in Finance. He is currently employed as Senior Vice President of Investment and an Associated Person with Southwest Securities, Inc. in Dallas, TX. Mr. Jones was first registered as a CTA in 1980 and currently manages several trading programs. The seasonal program has been ranked in the top five by Barclay’s Top Twenty CTA Performers based on it’s three year performance history.
 

Meeting # 5:
Speaker: Don Bright
Date: Tuesday January 17, 2006
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
 

A Market Maker and Floor Broker on the Pacific Stock Exchange from 1979 to 1989, and Trader and Director of Education for Bright Trading (one of the largest professional trading firms). Don brings “reality” to trading. Bright Trading has hundreds of professional traders, both he and his brother Bob actively trade on a daily basis. Don writes a monthly column in Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine,  and hosts Stocktrading with the Bright Brothers”  radio show (which can be heard every Saturday at Noon Pacific Time on the Web at www.stocktrading.com). Don brings some of the world's best traders to help teach his 3 Day Training Course and his 4 week "Boot Camps."  Don also tours the Country and abroad with his "Beyond the Snake Oil" workshops.

After graduating College in 1971, Don went directly into Public Accounting for a few years.  After getting tired of "counting other people's money" - he started American Marine, a ski boat dealership in Southern California, with a long time friend.  He sold that business in 1976 and went to Washington State to build Racquetball Courts and took over the Controller duties for a friend's Electrical Contracting firm. In 1979, his brother Bob invited him down to San Francisco and persuaded him to join him on the Pacific Stock Exchange.  Don became an Options market maker in April, 1979.  He expanded his role by becoming a dually registered trader, and traded options and ran the Bright professional brokerage operation, providing stock trading services to exchange traders.

When asked to address those who want to become career professional traders, he is quick to make this distinction: “There are only around 7,000 professional, proprietary traders in the entire country, including the NY Specialists and the NASDAQ Market Makers.  There are over 14 Million “online investors” which slants the odds way in our favor.”

Don will talk about techniques and tactics that are being used Today, not old re-hashed trading models being sold by the uninformed to the uninitiated. Opening only orders based on fair value calculations, market on close imbalances, order routing, specialist vs. market maker,  current arbitrage opportunities, etc. “All the things you must know cold before ever clicking your mouse.” 

You will learn about things that you never knew existed!

 

Meeting # 6:
Speaker: Jim Willis
Date: Tuesday February 21, 2006
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
The speaker this month is Jim Willis, President, of Beacon Bay Advisors, a Registered Investment Advisory that currently manages about $25 million in business/private assets and provides financial planning to a limited clientele. Beacon Bay Advisors is located in Dallas, TX.

Jim will present a 90-minute discussion on why, where, when, and how to invest in specific domestic and international equities that are primarily engaged in the natural resources arena. This will include (below ground) crude oil, natural gas, iron ore, coal, copper, uranium and special alloys. The (above ground) areas will include cement, pipelines, oil tankers, and refineries. He will name and identify specific companies that are poised to benefit from the global economical growth that is now occurring throughout the global economy.
 

Jim's background spans 25 years in telecom where he held highly successful sales and management positions with Inter-Tel, SRX, Tigon Corporation, Octel Communications, Lucent Technologies, Avaya, JP Systems, and MobileWay. His business experience extended globally and has traveled extensively worldwide.

He has been an active investor since 1985 including mutual funds, equities, futures, and options. He uses both fundamental and technical analysis in his trading approach. His certifications include (Series 7, 66, AAMS) and worked with A.G. Edwards for several years prior to launching Beacon Bay Advisors in May 2005. He resides in Carrollton, TX with his wife Charlene. His presentation and speaking skills are world class.
 

Meeting # 7:
Speaker: Stephen W. Bigalow
Date: Tuesday March 21, 2006
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
Stephen W. Bigalow possesses over twenty-five years of investment experience, including eight years as a stockbroker with major Wall Street firms: Kidder Peabody & Company, Cowen & Company and Oppenheimer & Company. This was followed by fifteen years of commodity trading, overlapped with twelve years of real estate investing. He holds a business and economics degree from Cornell University, and has lectured at Cornell and at many private educational investment functions over the past twenty years.

Mr. Bigalow has advised professional traders, money managers, mutual funds and hedge funds, and is recognized by many in the trading community as the "professional's professional."

Visit Steve's website, get his books and Candlestick Flash Cards here: http://www.candlestickforum.com/

 

Meeting # 8:
Speaker: Hank Mulvihill & Fred Richards
Date: Tuesday April 18, 2006
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza


Hank Mulvihill , Principal at Mulvihill Asset Management

Specialties:
1. Analysis of global, national, regional and local economic trends.
2. Separate accounts, fully transparent, fee-based, securities portfolio management using individual stocks, bonds, and exchange traded funds. Risk Management of portfolio positions through technical and fundamental
analysis. Portfolio manager since 1987. Pension and institutional
programs. 3. Cash Management for organizations and governments, since 1989. Certified Cash Manager permanent credential.

See us at
www.FEDFRIDAY.COM, the economic outlook forum. Mulvihill Asset Management is an independent financial firm providing investment management and advisory services; cash management to organizations and governments; financial consulting; appraisal of multi-class investment and insurance portfolios; financial planning; risk management; insurance
portfolio management services in the areas of life, health, long term care, disability, property and casualty, liability, and business continuity insurance; securities, insurance, real estate and business brokerage; financing services, namely, loan, project, securitization, banking, underwriting, syndication and venture capital financing; trust company services; pension services, namely, establishment, administration, and termination of benefit plans, and fiduciary advisory services. Securities through Prospera Financial Services. Accounts carried by NYSE member clearing firm First Clearing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wachovia Bank.

Fred Richards is the founder of Strategic Investing and manages his own funds. A portion of those funds he runs in the clear to help his subscribers learn his investment techniques and strategies. His Conservative portfolio has averaged over 80% compounded annually since May 1996 using a modified CANSLIM mechanical approach to investing. His Precious Metals portfolio was launched in May 2002 and is up over 1,000%. He wrote his first computer program for investments in 1963. A grand-fathered CFA, his investment approach combines macro economics, fundamental security analysis, and technical indicators. Fred will discuss why it takes more than TA to succeed in today's investment world. His investment philosophy is KISS + SF ... Keep It Safe, Simple and Stay Focused.

Meeting # 9:
Speaker: Gregory L. Morris
Date: Tuesday May 16, 2006
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza

Since June, 2005, Gregory L. Morris has been a portfolio manager for PMFM, Inc., managing their PMFM Core Advantage Portfolio Trust mutual fund.  

From December, 2003 to May, 2005, Greg had served as a Trustee and advisor to the MurphyMorris ETF Fund.  He also served as Treasurer and Chief Executive Officer of MurphyMorris Money Management Co, the Advisor to the Fund.  Greg has written his second book with McGraw-Hill; The Complete Guide to Market Breadth Indicators,” a book introducing market breadth for investors.  He is also working on a third edition to his best-selling “Candlestick Charting Explained.”  Since October, 2002, Greg (also President of G. Morris Advisors, Inc.) has been working with StockCharts.com, the leading web-based charting service.  He is providing consulting services in marketing, financial development, and business alliances to StockCharts.com.  From 1996 to 2002, Greg was CEO of MurphyMorris.Inc., the leading provider of web-based market analysis tools and commentary, with his partner, John Murphy, a former CNBC analyst.  MurphyMorris, Inc. was acquired by StockCharts.com, Inc. in October, 2002.  In 1999, Greg and three associates started MurphyMorris Money Management Co. to manage assets for individuals.  This focus was later changed to address the firm becoming the Advisor to the MurphyMorris ETF Fund in January, 2004, and later merged into the PMFM family of funds.  

From 1994 to 1996, he was President of G. Morris Corporation, a Dallas, Texas headquartered business that provided products and services for investors and traders.  His lead product was a series of over 450 Indicators &Trading Systems that supported most windows-based technical analysis software packages.  
From 1993 to 1994, Greg was part of MarketArts, Inc. which launched the first windows-based technical analysis software program, “Windows on Wall Street.”  In 1992 he published a book on Japanese candlestick analysis called CandlePower, now available in soft cover as Candlestick Charting Explained (McGraw-Hill).  Widely recognized as an expert on candlesticks
and the developer of candlestick filtering, he has lectured around the world on the subject.  In May, 1989, he was awarded “outstanding alumni for 1989” from Pratt County College.  From 1982 until 1993, he worked in association with N-Squared Computing, producing over 15 technical analysis and charting software titles, many of which are actively used today.  Greg retired in 2004 after 26 years as a Captain with a major airline.  He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1971, has a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering, has authored
numerous investment-related articles, and appeared many times on Financial News Network (FNN).  From 1971 to 1977, he was a Navy F-4 fighter pilot aboard USS Independence who was selected for, and graduated from, the Navy Fighter Weapons School known as Top Gun.  Married with two adult children (both engineers) and two step children, Greg and his wife, Laura, live and office in the mountains of North Georgia.

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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