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2014-2015 Schedule

 

Meeting # 1:
Speaker:

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Harry Boxer

www.theTechTrader.com

Date: Sep 16, 2014
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
Topic:

Harry Boxer, shares insights into applying his pattern recognition strategy to identify trading opportunities. He will demonstrate, with live charts, how to use intraday technicals and patterns to uncover trading candidates on intraday and daily charts.

Harry Boxer is author of The Technical Trader, thetechtrader.com, a real-time diary of his trading ideas and market analysis. He has more than 40 years of Wall Street investment and technical analysis experience, including eight years on Wall Street as chief technical analyst with three brokerage firms. Former chief technical analyst and columnist for AmericaInvest.com and winner of the 1995 and 1996 worldwide Internet stock-market trading contest, "The Technical Analysis Challenge," Mr. Boxer is widely syndicated and a featured guest on many financial programs and sites, including CNBC, MarketWatch.com, Minyanville, DecisionPoint, and more.

Meeting # 2:
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Andrew Keene
www.keeneonthemarket.com
Date: Oct 21, 2014
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
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Prior to founding KeeneOnTheMarket.com in 2011, Andrew Keene worked as a proprietary trader at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Keene graduated from Botta Capital’s clerk-to-trade program to become known as one of fasted traders to ‘make a market.’ As a market maker he traded options in over 125 stocks, including Apple, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, and Yahoo. Keene left Botta Capital to co-found KATL Group, where he was the largest, independent on-the-floor Apple trader in the world.

Andrew currently actively trades futures, equity options currency pairs, and commodities. He regularly appears on CNBC, Bloomberg Television, and Fox News. His first book, Trade to Win Using Unusual Options Activity, Volatility, and Earnings currently available from Wiley Publishing.

 

 

Meeting # 3:
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Stefanie Kammerman

 www.thestockwhisperer.com

Date: Nov 18, 2014
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
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 Stefanie Kammerman, aka The Stock Whisperer, has trained over 1,000 students worldwide over the past 20 years. Her unique approach of old fashioned trading in a high tech world teaches her students how to daytrade and swing trade by learning how to read the tape.  Ms. Kammerman also teaches her students how to spot refreshing on the ECN book, in order to enter only the highest probability trades. She runs an online educational trading room called "The Java Pit" on www.thestockwhisperer.com, where she shares her screen all day long with you pointing out what, and most importantly where, the smart money is trading.  She is the author of “Counting the Cards of Wall Street”, an online workshop which focuses on trading around volume and technical analysis.

In 1994, she started out as an assistant trader at the prestigious Schoenfeld Securities. In 1996, she became the first female trader for Onsite Trading, winning the trader of the year award her first year. She successfully ran a trading desk over the next few years teaching all the new traders the overnight swing system.  Stefanie is also a published singer/songwriter with BMI, having placed numerous songs on some of the most popular television shows such as “Americas’ Got Talent,” and “American Idol” just to name a few.

 

 

 

 

 

Meeting # 4:
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To, Reazor
Chief Investment Strategist - NorAm Asset Management
 
Date: December 16, 2014
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
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Prior to joining NorAm, Tim was the Director of Investor Education for Investors Business Daily (“IBD”).  IBD Chairman and Founder William J. O’Neal personally hired Tim from The US Marines Corps where he was a Marine Major Select.  He is a decorated helicopter pilot who completed three deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 

Tim’s military and aviation service proved invaluable when he joined IBD.  As Director, his responsibilities included directing the world’s largest investor education group.  Investment research and investment skills were at  the very core of of this group.

Mr. Reazor also led IBD’s relationship development team, establishing working and profitable relationships with other senior financial community leaders including Charles Schwab, OptionsMonster, TradeMonster, OptionsAnimal, OptionsXpress, and E*Trade. His program also developed educators who taught worldwide.

His investment philosophies have evolved from his extraordinary experiences.  For Tim, good financial guidance is grounded in rigorous entry and exit planning, very similar to his decorated combat flying skills.

Always willing to talk about great coffee, how price and volume matter most in stocks, the mighty CH-46E helicopter or his beloved pal Isaac T. Dogg, Tim is always ready for an engaging and memorable conversation.
 

Meeting # 5:
Speakers:

 

Panel Discussion

 Ian Naismith - Naismith Trading Labs
 Tim Reazor - NorAmAssetManagement 
  Dean Somes - Cross Capital Partners

Date: January 20, 2015
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
Topic: "What To Expect From The Markets in 2015"
 
Professional traders and investors will give their outlook for the markets in 2015 and take your questions.
 
   

Meeting #6:
Speaker: Mel Dickover

www.FuturesTruth.com

Date: Feb 17, 2015
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
Topic:

 

Melvin Dickover is a retired systems analyst and designer. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Purdue, and a Master's Degree in Physics from Trinity College. He began his career working on the backpack for the moon suit and the life support for the LEM, and switched to software and systems when the space program wound down. For the last 30 years before retirement he was a self employed consultant, working for banks, insurance companies, the Defense Department, DARPA, and NRL. He has been trading technically for more than 15 years. He is the inventor of Defended Price Lines, an indicator introduced in the April 2014 issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities.                   

Meeting #7:
Speaker:

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Martin Pring, Chariman, Pring Turner Capital Group

ww.pring.com, www.pringturner.com

Date: March 17, 2015
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
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Martin Pring has provided research to the international investment community since 1968. His research has been highlighted in the Wall Street Journal and Barron's, and he has been regularly interviewed by the financial media. Martin has authored several best selling books including: "How to Forecast Interest Rates", "Technical Analysis Explained", "The All-Season Investor", and his latest, "The Investor's Guide to Active Asset Allocation". In 2004 Martin was honored by his peers with the Market Technicians Association "Lifetime Achievement Award". He currently blogs on stockcharts.com.
   
He is also chairman of the Pring Turner Capital Group a conservative money management firm dedicated to allocating assets according to business cycle conditions. 
 
Described by Barron's as a "technician's technician", Martin's articles have been featured in Barron's, and he has been quoted in The Wall St. Journal, International Herald Tribune, The New York Post and Los Angeles Times newspapers and the National Review. He is currently writing a monthly educational column on the basics of technical analysis for Stocks and Commodities Magazine. He is widely acclaimed by his peers and has received the Canadian Technical Society's Jack Frost Memorial Award as well as the MTA's coveted Annual Award. He has also been made an honorary member of the Swiss Technical Society.

His research has led to the development of reliable financial and economic indicators for timely and effective forecasting. Martin's personal Barometers for the Bond, Stock and Commodity markets have identified major turning points since the 1950's on a timely basis and have outperformed the buy/hold approach by a wide margin.

For many years, Martin's primary interest has been educating students of technical analysis in the basic and finer points of this art.   He enjoys mentoring students of technical analysis from the college level to professionals already in the field, sharing the wealth of knowledge he has gained through his own experience and research.
  

Meeting # 8:
Speaker:

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John Reese, Validea Capital Management

Validea.com

Date: April 21, 2015
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
Topic:

 

John Reese, founder of Validea.com, is the author of The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History's Best Investment Strategies and a regular columnist for RealMoney.com and Forbes.com. He is also the founder of Validea Capital Management, a money management firm for high net worth individuals and institutions, and he advises two Canada-based mutual funds (National Bank Consensus American & International Equity Funds). John also maintains the investing blog The Guru Investor, which is dedicated to bringing investors the thoughts and ideas of the brightest investment minds in the world.

John has always been actively involved in managing his own money. But after growing frustrated with underperforming fund managers and pundits who offered more hyperbole than help, John began conducting his own extensive research into quantitative investment strategies some 19 years ago. The goal of his research was to find strategies that had consistently outperformed the market over the long term, and which the average investor could use in a practical way. What John found was that a number of history's greatest investors, including Peter Lynch, Warren Buffett, and Benjamin Graham, had made their fortunes by using approaches that were mostly, if not completely, quantitative. After studying the works of these and other stock market greats, John used his background in computer science and artificial intelligence to develop the sophisticated yet easy-to-use guru-inspired models offered on Validea.com.

John's ultimate goal for Validea.com is two-fold: to help make the strategies of the most successful pros usable and understandable for the individual investor, and to offer investors a systematic investment framework that helps them overcome the emotions and biases that often eat away at long-term performance.

John holds a Master's of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor's degree in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.    

 

Meeting # 9:

Speaker:

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Raghee Horner

TradeForexFutures.com

Date: May 19, 2015
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
Topic:  

Raghee started trading at the tender age of 17 while still in high school. She continued her pursuit of trading through college until going full-time after graduation; torn between the charts and law school, the markets won out. 

With a degree in English, Raghee has a passion for communicating the message of the markets as well as teaching self-directed traders how to find choice, freedom, and an edge in the currency and futures markets. Three books (published by Wiley & Sons), countless speaking engagements, seminars, Chief Currency Analyst for IBFX (bought by FXCM), and trips across the globe, Raghee shares all the she does and has learned at SimplerCurrencies.com. 

Her popular 34EMA Wave and GRaB Candles indicators have a ever-growing following. Raghee brings back the wisdom of time-tested trading analysis with the edge that technology gives the modern trader. Nearly a life-long Floridian, Raghee lives in South Florida with
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
     
     
     
 

 

 
     
     
     
 

 

 
     

 

     
     

 

 

     
   

 

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
   

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