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.

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Speaker: Phil Johns

Topic: AI: There is still nothing new in Trading

The market is long until it is short—and short until it is long.

On 10 November 1957, in a syndicated newspaper article titled Work With New Electronic “Brains” Opens Field for Army Math Experts, U.S. Army Specialist William D. Mellin used the phrase GIGO—Garbage In, Garbage Out. He was explaining that computers cannot correct sloppy programming or poor-quality input.

Nearly 70 years later, nothing has changed. AI is only as useful as the instructions it receives—and the hardest part is knowing what to ask when you do not yet know what you need to ask.

Phil will work through two practical, bolt-on AI projects that can improve your trading strategies—regardless of the strategy type, trading platform or AI engine you use.

• The first project focuses on leveraging the existing capabilities of your trading platform to reduce risk.
• The second uses AI to improve trade analysis across strategy backtests and live trading results.
• Attendees will be provided the instructions on ‘how to’ for both case studies.

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Speakers: Alan Clement and Adrian Reid

Topic: Trading Crypto Systematically in RealTest

In this session Alan Clement and Adrian Reid will share insights from porting a full suite of crypto systems out of Amibroker and into RealTest: data from multiple exchanges, working backtest scripts, and a tool that automates orders directly with the major exchanges.

You will see how to get clean crypto data from multiple exchanges into RealTest and deal with crypto-specific decentralised data problems such as short data history, liquidity variations, and token listing / delisting. The session will also discuss how the edges you already trade in equities can be translated to crypto, along with a simple Bitcoin system with code to get you started.

Finally, we will explore the part nobody warns you about: the difficulty of trading a 24/7 market on daily bars, and why automating is essential in this market. If you trade RealTest and you are curious about crypto, this is the practical, no-hype walkthrough to attend. You will leave ready to test your first crypto system this weekend, and every attendee gets the free data downloader developed for multiple crypto exchanges.

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Speaker: Bisher Khudeira

Topic: Understanding the Bitcoin Cycle

Bisher Khudeira as his role as Stormrake Head of Sales & Brokerage discusses the Bitcoin Cycle.

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Speaker: Thomas Stone

Topic: Strategy Development from Analysis to Automation

Strategy Development: From Analysis to Automation

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Speaker: Chris Meakin

Topic: Alternate Regime Filters and How to Assess the Profitability and Robustness of a Trading Strategy.

Alternate Regime Filters: Many traders use a regime filter to measure market sentiment, and those trading ASX-listed instruments typically use the XAO (All Ords) or XJO (ASX200) index. In this presentation, Chris will demonstrate alternative regime filters using indices and index ratios, including how to create your own custom index.

How to assess the profitability and robustness of a trading strategy: In this short presentation, Chris will demonstrate how he uses back test results in excel to give a clearer picture of a strategy’s performance.

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Speaker: Keith Mundy

Topic: A Voice Speaks to Us from the Past

In this presentation an unusual investor speaks to us from the years past. What is the message? As active investors and traders we need to look at all methods and perspectives so you should sharpen your pencils and be prepared to take notes.

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Speaker: Zach Radge

Topic: AI Realism in Trading

Join Zach Radge for a talk that takes a step back from the data and charts to ask a harder question: what is AI good for in trading, and what does it cost the people who adopt it badly?

Combining his experience as a trader and a software engineer, Zach looks beyond the immediate hype and urgency to explore why so much AI adoption is not driven by a true need but by a fear of missing out, and why trading makes that mistake more expensive than almost anywhere else. Half history lesson, half field guide, this presentation will provide you with a clear-eyed framework for distinguishing between AI that builds you a genuine edge and AI that is just an expensive dependency waiting to fail.

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Speaker: Matheus Vargas

Topic: The Game Was Never Fair - and AI Just Made It Worse

What if the biggest threat to young investors is not bad luck, but a system built to keep them behind? The Game Was Never Fair — And AI Just Made It Worse dives into the uncomfortable reality of modern markets, where retail investors are expected to compete in an environment shaped by hidden incentives, fragmented platforms, fake expertise, scams, and now AI accelerating all of it at scale. What once was already unequal is becoming even harder to navigate, especially for younger generations entering stocks and crypto during one of the largest wealth transfers in history.

This talk explores how everyday investors are being overwhelmed not just by volatility, but by information asymmetry. From finfluencers and conflicting incentives to cross-platform blind spots, behavioural traps, and AI-powered manipulation, the investing landscape is becoming more complex, noisier, and more dangerous for those without the right tools. Access to markets is no longer enough. The real edge now comes from intelligence: understanding risk, filtering signal from noise, and seeing what others miss before it is too late.

Bold, timely, and highly relevant, this session is for anyone who wants to understand where investing is really heading, why the current system keeps failing the next generation, and what kind of tools may define the future of financial decision-making. Whether you are into investing, crypto, AI, or simply curious about how power is shifting in modern finance, this is a talk designed to challenge assumptions and leave you thinking differently about the game.

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Speaker: Nick Radge

Topic: Using AI for Forensic Analysis and Portfolio Allocation Optimisation

Using a multi-system trading approach, Nick will demonstrate how AI can be applied to the forensic analysis of trading systems and the optimisation of portfolio allocations across multiple sub-systems and combinations of strategies.

After presenting some of his recent work using AI for trading system analysis, Nick will lead an interactive Q&A session exploring the uses of AI in systematic trading system analysis. This is your chance to ask Nick any questions you have about the use of AI in your trading system development work. Participants are encouraged to bring their questions, with ample time allocated for discussion.

Note on this recording: Due to a technical interruption 20 minutes into the live session, this presentation is split into two parts. In Part 2, Nick restarts from the beginning and summarizes the opening segment before delivering the rest of the presentation. Viewing Suggestion: Watch Part 2 first. If you would like to see the detail of the opening 20 minutes, then go back and watch Part 1.

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Speaker: Robert Brain

Topic: How to Avoid Odd or Unexpected Price Movements

Have you ever observed odd or unexpected share price movements on the price charts and wondered what’s caused it?

Or why there was a big move (either up or down) in recent day?

How can the average investor avoid losing money in this situation?

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Speaker: Richard Dale

Topic: "It's different this time, right?" A data-informed approach to the market.

Richard will provide an overview of how data is used in trading and how we can use different metrics in determining what to trade, paying attention to changes in market regimes and past crises, and how bad assumptions and survivorship bias can adversely affect trading outcomes.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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