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Speaker: Brent Penfold

Date: 12th April 2025

Location: National Speaker Series

Topic: Analysis is Good, Making Money is Better.
Learn how to build a robust mechanical strategy for profit Presented by Brent Penfold Trader, Advisor, Author and Educator. Most traders begin their journey with analysis—especially technical analysis. It’s an exciting world filled with endless possibilities, the promise of unlocking market secrets, and the thrill of discovery. But here’s the reality: while analyzing markets can be stimulating, challenging, and intellectually rewarding, it rarely translates into consistent profits. The pursuit of market secrets can become a distraction—one that takes traders away from their real goal: making money. While analysis is good, making money is better.

Brent Penfold is a 40 year veteran futures trader having begun his career in 1983 as an institutional trader with Bank America. In addition to being a full time trader Brent is an advisor, author and educator. Brent follows a systematic approach where he trades a portfolio of diverse, but complimentary trend and counter-trend strategies over multiple timeframes over a diverse portfolio of futures markets including; indices, currencies, interest rates, energies, metals, grains, softs and meats. Brent is a popular and sought after international speaker who has presented to traders throughout the Asia Pacific region including Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, India and China.

He is the author of three books; Trading the SPI (Wiley 2005), The Universal Principles of Successful Trading (Wiley 2010) and The Universal Tactics of Successful Trend Trading (Wiley 2020). The Universal Principles of Successful Trading has become an international best seller that has been translated into Polish, German, Korean, Japanese and simplified and orthodox Chinese. The Universal Tactics of Successful Trend Trading is quickly becoming the go to guide for practical and effective advice on trend trading.