2011 ATAA Conference Speakers
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Jim Berg is a former broker, private trader and lecturer with over 20 years’ experience in the investment industry. He has appeared on Sky Business TV, CNBC Asia and Market Wrap and is a regular guest speaker at trading events across Australia. Jim is the author of Shares to Buy & When and his articles have been published in the ASX newsletter, Shares, Personal Investor, Your Trading Edge and Stocks and Commodities in USA. |
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David Chia has spent most of his working life engaged in various aspects of trading and investments, working in the main, for banks and trading institutions. He co-founded Relate Empower Deliver, a boutique investment firm in late 2007 and passionately supports the education and learning aspects of financial markets as a critical ingredient for enduring success. With a background in accounting and economics, David has schooled himself in the multi disciplines that comes with managing the assets and risk that is the realm of trading and investments today. |
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Donald Dony, MFTA is a professional technical analyst, registered securities advisor and instructor for the Canadian Securities Institute. He has been in the investment profession for over 25 years, first as a stock broker in the mid 1980’s and then as the principal of D. W. Dony and Associates Inc., a financial consulting firm to present. He is the editor and publisher of the Technical Speculator, a monthly international investment newsletter, which specializes in major world equity markets, currencies, bonds and interest rates.
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Neil Godwin is a private trader, personal trading mentor and a current ATAA National Director. His trading experience spans many years of bull and bear cycles through which he survived and prospered despite many extreme market shocks. After 30 years of hard market experience, Neil understands what a trader/investor needs to make money from the stock market. |
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Daryl Guppy is founder and Director of Guppytraders.com, an international financial market education and training organization with offices in Darwin, Singapore and Beijing. He actively trades equities and associated derivatives markets, including CFDs. He is the author of The 36 Strategies of the Chinese for Financial Traders, Trend Trading, Guppy Trading and seven other trading books. He has developed several technical indicators used by traders in stock, derivative and currency markets. |
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Justine Pollard is a private Australian stock market trader, trading mentor and author of Smart Trading Plans. Justine's experience in the stock market started as a hobby 20 years ago and became a full time career in 2000. Justine now offers a range of training courses based on trading trends and using strict money management rules to let profits run and cut losses. Justine's career background includes marketing, business management and lecturer of technical analysis. |
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Hank Pruden is a Professor in the Ageno School of Business at Golden Gate University, San Francisco where he has been teaching for 30 years. More than a theoretician, Prof. Pruden has actively traded his own account for over 20 years. This personal involvement in the market ensures that what he teaches is practical for the trader, and not just abstract academic theory. He has researched and published extensively in the use of technical analysis and the psychology of trading, including The Three Skills of Top Trading. |
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Gary Stone has a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. He started his career in investing in the stock market in 1990 when he first became interested in technical and fundamental analysis of shares. He combined two of his main business interests: computing and the stock market to establish a business in 1994 that provides active investing solutions and services to private investors. Gary has researched and designed two active investment methodologies that are commercially available in the marketplace. |
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Dr. Brett Steenbarger is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY and Director of Trader Development at Tudor Investment Corp. He has written three books on trading psychology, a training text on brief approaches to therapy, and the popular TraderFeed blog. A graduate of Duke University and the University of Kansas, Dr Steenbarger’s current work focuses on high-performance applications of research and practice in psychology. |
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Dr. Bruce Vanstone completed his PhD at Bond University in Computational Finance in 2006. He focuses on researching and developing active investment and trading strategies, both with and without the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques. He currently lectures in Computational Finance (Algorithmic Trading and Trading Systems Design) at Bond University, and consults to Porter Capital Funds Management. He also works with private traders to enhance their performance and returns. He has just completed his first book, Designing Stockmarket Trading Systems (with and without Soft Computing). |
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