CURRENT VENUE for the Melbourne hybrid meetings – Arcadia Hotel, South Yarra. More venue details below in the Activities/Items section. In-person networking from 5.15 pm to 6 pm with finger food, PROVIDED you register beforehand.
NOTE: In-person 5.15 pm - 9 pm, and broadcast over the web only from 6 - 8 pm AEDT. The in-person meeting segment will continue after 8 pm over dinner with the speakers and general networking amongst the members.
Join our ATAA meetings to improve your understanding of
how to invest or trade successfully in the financial markets,
focusing on the correct use and application of Technical Analysis
Session Highlights:
• Jim Haralambidis on Daniel Kahneman, discretionary trading and mean reversion
• Alan Clement on The Art and Science of Trading
Meeting Agenda:
5.15 pm - 6 pm – Informal networking (including finger food)
6 pm to 6:05 pm – MEETING OPENING, INTRODUCTION and HOUSEKEEPING
6.05 pm to 6.40 pm – MEMBER SPEAKER
Jim Haralambidis – ATAA National President & Quant Trader
Topics: "Discretionary Trading: Can it improve performance in Mean Reversion?" and "What is the trader’s edge? Further Lessons from Daniel Kahneman’s book 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' ”
Discretionary Trading in Mean Reversion: Can discretionary trading be used to improve performance in a mean reversion strategy? Can it be used as an additional filter to give better results? Jim will discuss some of his own experiences in this area.
The trader’s edge: Following on from Jim’s February 2024 presentation on Daniel Kahneman’s bestselling book “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, Kahneman’s ideas on what gives traders an edge, in both trading and life in general, will be discussed. A brief overview of the whole book will be given at the end of the presentation, with the key take-away messages.
Profile:
Jim Haralambidis is the current National President of the ATAA. He started his career in science and has a PhD in Chemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Melbourne. Jim was involved in biomedical scientific research at the Howard Florey Institute for about fifteen years.
Jim left the academic world in 1996 to set up his own IT business, which he ran for about 20 years. On the way, he obtained a Master of Applied Finance degree from the University of Melbourne, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Computing from RMIT. Jim’s business was sold to a listed company in 2015.
Since then, Jim has been busy managing his own investments, hence his interest in Technical Analysis.
6:40 pm to 8 pm – GUEST SPEAKER
Alan Clement – Independent Trader and Strategy Developer
Topic: “The Art and Science of Trading: Crafting a Personalised Strategy Tailored to Your Objectives”
It's a fact that even as systematic traders, it's easy for us to succumb to emotions if we cannot cope with the strategy we've chosen to trade. So, when embarking on a course of strategy development, how can we be sure that the resulting trade executions will fit with our own personal style and be manageable around our lifestyle and other commitments? In this enlightening presentation, Alan will take us through the steps to quantify our own personal objectives and risk tolerance. He'll then show how once you have these; you can target a particular style of trading strategy that is best likely to match those goals. This can then lead you to develop styles of strategies that would give you a much greater chance of trading them successfully, thus realising a P&L profile close to the systematic outcomes.
Profile:
Alan Clement is a trading strategy designer and independent trader with 30 years’ experience in the financial industry. Following a successful professional career in both investment management and investment banking, he now manages his own independent trading business. He is also an international speaker on evidence-based trading approaches. His main focus is the design and development of quantitative trading strategies that trade multiple markets. Alan is an IFTA Certified Financial Technician (CFTe) and a Director of the ATAA. You can find details on his strategies at https://smartsystematictrading.com and you can follow him on X @helixtrader
The speakers will be staying for dinner after the presentations, and members are encouraged to join them and take part in a general discussion, with both the speakers and other members present.
The ATAA is the knowledge network for successfully using technical analysis
in financial market trading and investing.
NEXT MEETING:
When: Thursday 9 May 2024, 5.15pm until 9pm.
Where: Arcadia Hotel (TBC)
2 Toorak Road (cnr Punt and Toorak Roads), South Yarra