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2010-2011 Schedule

 

Meeting # 1:
Speaker:

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Tony Dwyer

www.collins-stewartinc.com

Date: Sep 21, 2010
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)

 

Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
   

Chief US Equity Stategist and Managing Director,  Collins Stewart PLC

 

Anthony (Tony) Dwyer has been Chief Equity Strategist of US Operations and Managing Director at Collins Stewart plc since February 2010. Mr. Dwyer serves as Chief Equity Strategist and Managing Director of Collins Stewart LLC.   Dwyer is charged with using macroeconomic and fundamental, technical and historical analyses to advise Collins Stewart's U.S. institutional clients. Previously he was Equity Market Strategist at FTN Midwest Securities Corp.

Tony began his equity research career at Prudential-Bache Securities in 1987 and has since served as equity market strategist for a small number of regional brokerage firms. Tony employs macro-economic fundamental, technical, and historical analyses in developing an intermediate to long-term investment strategy for the financial markets and its various sectors. He is often interviewed and quoted by the financial news outlets, such as FOX News, CNBC, CNN, and Bloomberg Radio, as well as by many print publications.  He has presented at events such as the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) Annual Conference.

 

Meeting # 2:
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Rick Saddler

www.hitandruncandlesticks.com

 

Date: Oct 12, 2010
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
   
 

I've been an employee and a business owner. Both placed a lot of money in someone else's pocket. Whether it was the company or the tax man it seemed to be a lot of headache for little return.

I had a dream to quit my day job and learn to trade the stock market. And, so my journey began. Around 1989 I began dabbling in the market. Make a little money...Lose a little money. Make a little..Lose a little. You get the picture. Bottom line - It was fun and had the thrill of gambling but not profitable. Still, I enjoyed this process for the next six to eight months expecting to find that one strategy that would hit a home run. At this point I was no further ahead financially and pretty much breaking even.

Then, I was reunited with my 8th grade sweet heart, married her and inherited three great kids. Talk about incentive to make some money! We were a family of five, living in a two-bedroom apartment. I needed down-payment money on a house and I needed it fast.

I had about $8,000 startup capital and worked to develop my own simple, low-risk trading strategies. In a years time I turned that 8K to $28,000. Pretty impressive return until a bad trade lost me $6,500. I quickly took the remaining cash and went house hunting.

While I continued to dabble with my trading strategies, it wasn't until May of 2002 that I became serious about my trading future. I decided to invest in myself and took private training classes from Stephen Bigalow on how to trade with Japanese Candlesticks. This training paid off and I was back to making profits. Until, I began looking for that home run play that would make me a killing. I was tweaking my simple strategies by adding the latest tips shared by the Gurus.

Finally, I came to my senses and went back to the techniques that made me money. They were easy to spot patterns with clear entry and exit points. I could see the same pattern developing in hundreds of charts. More importantly, I could enter with low-risk on a short-term trade, grab my profits and sleep well at night.

Today, trading for a living has afforded my family with several luxuries that I would not otherwise afford. Not to mention, my lovely wife and childhood sweetheart quit her job. I trade every day and never forget I am living my dream. I enjoy traveling and teaching clinics to others who are looking to take that next step to transition to Trading for a Living.

 

Meeting # 3:

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John Person

 www.nationalfutures.com

www.tradingtriggers.com

Date: Nov 16, 2010  
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
   

John Person is a 28-year veteran of the Futures and Options Trading industry. He started on the Floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange back in 1979. This was the premier exchange which launched foreign currency trading. He then had the privilege of working with George Lane , the innovator of the stochastic indicator.

John has worked his way throughout the industry as a independent Trader, Broker, Analyst and Branch Manager for one of Chicago's largest discount / full service firms under the direct supervision of a former Chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade. He is the former owner and President of First National Futures Group, Inc. and is continuing his work as a registered Commodity Trading Advisor.

John has shared his wealth of knowledge in the field of technical analysis, his trading style and system development and has taught thousand of traders including members of the largest exchanges. He is the author of three nationally and internationally popular trading books as well as two trading courses and a DVD seminar series.

The Nations most respected business journalists call John Person for his market opinions. He is widely quoted by CBS Market Watch, Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, and appears regularly on CNBC as well. He is a sought after speaker for many professional organizations such as the Market Technicians Association (MTA ) , the International Federation of Technical Analyst Society (IFTA) and delivers Keynote Speeches and Seminars at some of the Countries Top National Investment Expos.

John Person is the author of "The Complete Guide to Technical Analysis for the Futures Markets", the first ever to introduce traders to a powerful combination of candlesticks and pivot point analysis.

His second book, took traders to an entirely different level. In his book  "Candlestick and Pivot Point Trading Triggers + CD-ROM: Setups for Stock, Forex, and Futures Markets", he included a pivot point calculator, instructional videos and exact rules for entries and exits on trades.

In his third book, "Forex Conquered: High Probability Systems and Strategies for Active Traders", he broke ground for currency traders in that he included many forms of FX vehicles, trading styles and how one can integrate technical analysis fro entries and exits and objectives. He also shares a trading system with the codes for Genesis and tradestation users.

John has completed two amazing trading courses , the first is  "Trading Triggers - The Secrets to Profitable Trading" and a four hour special FOREX trading course available for purchase on his website and his latest DVD course.

In 1998, he developed his own proprietary trading system and began publishing "The Bottom-Line Financial and Futures Newsletter", a weekly commodity publication that incorporates fundamental developments as well as technical analysis that includes the data from his trading system, using pivot points combined with candlesticks. In addition, John Person provides his clients with daily, weekly and monthly research including his daily, weekly and monthly numbers as well as the Daily Dow Jones Report posted on our web site in the Research and Analysis section of our website.

John has created and launched FX Pro-Trigger system with one goal in mind: to provide investors with the ability to achieve a diversified investment portfolio based on a time tested trading plan, which is fully automated, so that it can capture trading signals in order for active traders with the proper risk capital to achieve their investment goals without monitoring the foreign exchange markets around the clock, 24 hours a day five days a week. 

 

Meeting # 4:
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TBD

Date: Dec 14, 2010
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
   
   
 

Meeting # 5:
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Panel Discussion 

 

Date: Jan 18, 2011    
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
  "What To Expect From The Markets in 2011"
   

Meeting # 6:
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TBD
Date: Feb 15, 2011
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
   
   

 

 

Meeting # 7:
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TBD

Date: Mar 15, 2011 
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
   
 

Meeting # 8:
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TBD

Date: Apr 19, 2011 
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
   
 
 

 

Meeting # 9:

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 TBD

 

Date: May 17, 2011 
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Registration 6:30)
Duration: 2 hours +/-
Location: Crowne Plaza
   
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
     
     
     
 

 

 
     
     
     
 

 

 
     

 

     
     

 

 

     
   

 

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
   

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