Traders' Library 2008 Trading Forum

Jeff Greenblatt [Speaker Bio] - [Speaker Books]

How to Predict Any Market

Jeff Greenblatt will teach you how Fibonacci and Lucas time windows offer a precise pattern recognition edge to anticipate turns in the market ahead of the crowd. You will gain a good understanding of the conditions required for reversals, ends of corrections, and when trends are likely to continue. Price and time pivots will be identified in order to buy dips andsell rallies.

Jeff will help you lay the foundation for incorporating the time element into other technical analysis methods such as the Elliott wave, Fibonacci retracements, candlesticks, and momentum indicators, as well as moving averages and volume studies. There will also be a discussion about ways in which sentiment supports price/time clusters.

After the foundation is established, he will cover advanced strategies such as Fibonacci extensions and support/resistance lines in order to be able to identify when big moves are setting up.

Oliver L. Velez [Speaker Bio]

The Gift: How to Profit from the Market’s Most Powerful Trading Moment

In one of the boldest presentations given by Oliver Velez yet, you will learn that it is the exchange of money between buyers and sellers that moves financial markets worldwide, and price charts track the footprints of that ceaseless money exchange better than anything else. However, the constant players in this grand drama, the buyers and sellers, are not all equal. It’s the few, not the many, who truly run the show. It is the behemoths, the larger savvy institutions and the shrewd hedge funds which attempt to operate in total secrecy and obscurity that control most of the market’s action today. Knowing when these powerhouses suddenly step in to buy or sell is one of the secret keys to building consistent wealth in today’s market. In this provocative 90-minute presentation, Oliver Velez will reveal how one single price pattern helps his traders spot the very moment one of these powerhouses has stepped in to buy or sell. He calls this moment The Gift, and it happens every single day. Come learn how to identify and exploit the market’s single most important price pattern for huge profits, every single day.

Toni Turner [Speaker Bio] - [Speaker Books]

Winning Sector Strategies with Exchange Traded Funds

Have you ever bought the only stock in a rocketing sector that refused to join the party? Now, you can put those trades behind you!

Join best-selling author and sought-after financial educator Toni Turner for this information-packed session. Toni will show you how trading sectors with ETFs can be easier, involve lower risk and produce higher gains than single-stock trades. You’ll learn which sectors thrive in both bull and bear markets, along with the best corresponding ETFs to target when these sectors trend higher (or lower). You’ll also discover which chart indicators Toni uses with ETFs for her own trades. Don’t miss this session . . . you’ll take home exciting new strategies for trading sector ETFs that can help boost your profits now, and in the future!

Toni Hansen [Speaker Bio]

Accurately Predicting Price Targets and Exit Points

Join veteran trader and market analyst Toni Hansen as she shares her time-tested techniques for predicting price targets on equity positions and how to manage open positions for maximum gain. This session will include not only Toni's profit-taking strategies, but also an in-depth discussion on the tricky issue of how to adjust stops and utilize trailing stops successfully.

Richard Arms [Speaker Bio] - [Speaker Books]

This year’s Trader’s Hall of Fame Award Winner will discuss equivolume charting, the Arms Index and other indices, as trading tools. The emphasis will be on the contents of his latest book, Stop and Make Money, in making equity trading decisions. Emphasis will center on how an understanding of volume helps to make better trades. He will be particularly looking at using stop orders to enter positions, rather than as merely exit tools.

Bill Kraft [Speaker Bio] - [Speaker Books]

The Essential Principals of Trading Your Way to Wealth

Bill Kraft, author of Trade Your Way to Wealth, will discuss his own path to success, showing you how he has used low risk, measured risk, and even zero risk trades to achieve big profits. Bill will discuss what he considers to be the basic and essential principles of trading including critical concepts of risk awareness and aversion, money management, and exit strategies. Through the use of current examples, you'll see how he creates limited risk and even no risk trades to protect capital while putting himself in a position to enjoy significant profits.

John Carter [Speaker Bio] - [Speaker Books]

The Setups that Are Working Best in Today’s Markets

Today’s markets are wildly volatile. These jerky movements are a disaster for some, and an ATM machine for others. Join professional trader John F. Carter, founder of TradeTheMarkets.com and author of the best selling book, Mastering the Trade, for a 90-minute session on how he’s trading these markets right now. John will cover individual stocks, stocks indexes, as well as gold, oil and other commodities. He is going to talk about the setups and risk reward ratios that are working best in this environment, as well as which time frames he prefers to take his signals from. If you are looking for some trading ideas and tips that you can use on your very next trade, then you won’t want to miss this session.

John Person [Speaker Bio] - [Speaker Books]

Professional trader and author of several top trading books, John Person , will share with you how to build a trading plan based on the concepts behind his highly accurate Candlestick, pivot point and moving average system. This session will go over how to identify a trend directional bias or if there is an upcoming change in market direction using a specialized moving average method. Successful traders all have something in common, they wait patiently for the right setups to develop and then trade off the specific triggers. Waiting for those set-ups is just part of the battle. This session will teach you special set-ups that have a statistically (back tested) high frequency of occurring with amazing results. You will also learn how to spot and trade these high-probability set-ups from order entry to stop placement. John will also reveal techniques that will help you identify whether you should be buying dips or selling rallies based on the market bias and these specific set-ups and price patterns. These patterns are specific proprietary patterns that John has identified and used from his 30 years of trading that works in all time frames for day or swing traders.

This session will cover in full detail:
•	The correct way to use pivot points, including John's proprietary filtering method for selecting the right support and resistance levels.
•	How to spot high-impact trading opportunities using specific price patterns in certain time periods in the markets.
•	The steps John uses to spot the set-ups and triggers he looks for in stocks futures and the Forex markets.
•	How to detect a day-to-day sentiment bias based on market internals derived from a proprietary moving average component.
•	When to identify trading opportunities and under what conditions that you should be selling against swing highs and buying against swing lows.
•	Why end-of-day data combined with specific proprietary indicators will give you the edge for day trades in the next session.
•	Three proprietary high probability trade set-ups that work well, in all time frames.
•	When to enter a trade; where to place stop loss orders; and how, when, and where to trail stop orders for bigger profits using John's proprietary LCC method.

Guy Cohen [Speaker Bio] - [Speaker Books]

How to Profit from Breakouts Using Stocks and Options

In this action-packed session, Guy Cohen will teach you how to make a killing from stocks that about to break out from consolidation patterns in the market.

Guy first highlights the nuances of the optimum pattern and how to avoid inferior-performing patterns. He then outlines how to find these patterns and details the special filters where you can find out how the smart money is already positioned on these particular stocks.

After this, you’ll learn a precise trading plan you can use over and over again to manage your trades and give yourself the chance to making windfall profits.

Finally, Guy will extend the discussion into how to trade this way using options, further enhancing your returns using safe but powerful strategies.

Todd Gordon [Speaker Bio]

Forex Trading with FEWL--Advanced Fibonacci/Elliott Wave Analysis

FOREX.com’s Todd Gordon, author of the widely read Strategy of the Day research report and fund trader, will delve into the underlying principles of his preferred trading methodology, F.E.W.L. (Fibonacci Elliott Wave Levels), and analyze current market conditions using the F.E.W.L. methodology. Depending on the morning's market movement, he may also place live trades based on his analysis. A general understanding of Elliott Wave and Fibonacci theory is recommended for this session.

Chuck Hughes [Speaker Bio]

Global PowerTrend System

The Global PowerTrend System is a two-tier trend following system that identifies bullish and bearish trends in global currency, commodities and equity markets. The system trades a diversified portfolio of ETFs and ETF options to implement long and short strategies.

Andy Chambers [Speaker Bio]

Chambers on Profits (COP): Minimizing Risk
without Compromise of Profit...in Futures Options

For his Traders’ Forum presentation, Andy Chambers will review his favorite trade setups, explain his easy to recognize method for defining swing highs and lows on any chart, and review the key action points that can be the catalyst for entering or exiting a trade including breakouts, wide-range reversals, gaps, hurdles, failed signals, and tails. He will also cover his favorite stochastic divergence setups and share his unique seasonal charts that actually forecast the future price levels for each market. Finally, he will discuss the importance of strategizing, especially with options, and especially for traders with smaller accounts. Last, Andy will illustrate the impact the results of the presidential election usually have on interest rates and how to take advantage of that outlook using futures options.

Charles Kirkpatrick, II [Speaker Bio] - [Speaker Books]

Knowing What Stocks to Buy and What Stocks to Sell

Charlie will discuss the experiments outlined in his new book “Beat the Market: Invest by Knowing What Stocks to Buy and What Stocks to Sell.” The presentation will include his thoughts on technical analysis theory versus finance theory, examples of problems with forecasting, and a description of how to use relative price strength, relative earnings growth, and relative price-to-sales ratio to select stocks for outstanding performance. The evidence goes back over 25 years in real time, not in optimizing past data, and has a recorded history of beating the S&P 500 by almost 8 times.