Speaker: Marsten Parker

Topic: Systematic Strategy Development in the Age of AI

What happens when one of the most accomplished systematic traders in the world starts handing strategy research to AI? Marsten Parker — the only systematic trader profiled in Jack Schwager's Unknown Market Wizards — demonstrates live how he's using large language model AI to meaningfully accelerate the strategy development cycle. Whether you're an experienced quant or getting more serious about systematic trading, this session offers a practical look at how AI tools are beginning to reshape how strategies are built and tested.

260411_Expert Trader - Parker, Marsten

Speaker: Alan Clement

Topic: Global Markets Quarterly Technical Outlook.

Join Alan for his highly anticipated market update. With plenty of geopolitical, as well as inflationary risks around now, it’s time to join Alan for his ever-popular quarterly market update, where he will pick apart the events of the last few months and determine the levels and patterns to look out for. Using a variety of technical tools and chart types, he will delve into momentum, support, resistance, sentiment and market breadth to analyse local and overseas stock markets, currencies and commodities. Always informative and guaranteed to contain a few surprises, this presentation could act as a useful input to developing your own market road map for the coming weeks and months ahead.

260409_Melbourne - Clement, Alan

Speaker: Robert Brain

Topic: How good are you at picking stocks? Should I have bought this stock?

Robert ran a session like this in October 2024. In this session Robert will, like last time, show a price chart for a security (a stock, or ETF or whatever), with the last four weeks of price data hidden. And he will ask you this question: “Should I have bought this security a month ago?” Robert can add a chart indicator to the chart, and show you the daily, or weekly, or monthly price data. We can view a candle chart, or line chart, or HLC chart, or whatever – that’s your call during the meeting. After some discussion, and some sharing of opinions, Robert will display the stock performance over the last four weeks to reveal whether we should have, or should not have, bought this stock. In this session you will have two opportunities: (1) to show us how good your stock-picking is, and (2) the opportunity to pick up some tips from others about stock-picking. To give you a clue, we might use a security from the S&P/ASX 300 (XKO) index to help guarantee liquidity.

260409_Melbourne - Brain, Robert

Speaker: Keith Mundy

Topic: Why Is It So? Part 3 

In the first and second presentations Keith introduced the concept of all market movement being caused by previous movements. If this is true, then perhaps we can use these prior movements to predict and anticipate future market movements. Keith discusses this and demonstrates a trading strategy in the third part of a three-part series.

260312_Melbourne - Mundy, Keith

Speaker: Max Knobel

Topic: Cognitive Biases in Trading

Why do smart traders still make avoidable mistakes? Often it comes down to cognitive biases that quietly shape every trading decision, often more than data or strategy. In her presentation, Max will look at familiar traps like loss aversion, confirmation bias, overconfidence, and recency bias, and show how they play out in real market situations. More importantly, she’ll give you practical ways to spot these biases in your own thinking, tighten your decision process, and trade with greater consistency rather than emotion. 

260312_Melbourne - Knobel, Max

Speaker: Jim Haralambidis

Topic: Beyond Setups and Signals: A Practitioner’s Approach to Active Trading and Investing 

While trading education often focuses on individual indicators or trade setups, far less attention is given to how active retail traders actually structure their trading operation in practice — the question many new traders ask simply is, “what and how do you trade?”

In this session, Jim will present a high-level overview of how he approaches trading and investing as an integrated process. He will discuss his trading environment, the markets he trades, the broad strategy styles he uses, and the process he follows to develop, test, and refine ideas over time. Portfolio-level performance data from the current financial year will be shared to provide context and an insight into how well this performs in practice.

The presentation will conclude with a discussion of superannuation — a significant but frequently under-managed asset class — and some ideas about how systematic, rules-based thinking may be used for long-term investing, alongside more active trading.

260212_Melbourne - Haralambidis, Jim

Speaker: Matthew Jones

Topic: What to expect in 2026 and some new indicators to help you

At its heart, Technical Analysis is a timing tool for traders. But having an overall view of the big picture can help you decide whether to follow a trend following system or an oscillator. In his presentation Matthew will cover the current macro environment and how he expects the year to unfold. Plus, he has some new indicators you can add to your library to help you time the best trades.

260212_Melbourne - Jones, Matthew