
Speaker: Dr. Ari Kiev,
Author of:
Trading to Win: The Psychology of Mastering the Markets
Trading in the Zone: Maximizing Performance with Focus and Discipline
The Psychology of Risk: Mastering Market Uncertainty
Becoming a Disciplined Trader: Techniques for Achieving Peak Trading Performance
World famous trading coach, psychologist and author, Dr. Kiev draws upon his considerable
experience in working with Olympic athletes to develop for traders a winning psychological attitude.
He emphasizes the need for every trader to develop stress reduction techniques and the importance
of both setting goals and then committing oneself to doing whatever is necessary to achieve those
goals. Great traders learn to act in response to the trading plan and not in response to stress
or anxiety, the latter of which often causes a trader to hold on to a losing position for too long
or to close a winning position too soon. Dr. Kiev recommends that traders, like professional athletes,
practice visual imagery to confront and deal with all possible scenarios before they happen. This will both develop a positive mindset
and build confidence to handle the uncertainty of the marketplace. Lecture presentation lasts 30 minutes
followed by 30 minutes of question and answer. |
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Speaker: Dr. Mark Rzepczynski
President & CIO, John W. Henry & Co.
Founded in 1982, John W. Henry & Company, Inc. (JWH) is an alternative asset manager and one of the
largest managed futures advisors in the world with clients that include leading
money center banks, brokerage firms, retirement plans, insurance companies, multinational corporations,
private banks and families spanning the Americas, Europe and Asia. Dr. Mark S. Rzepczynski is the president and chief
investment officer of JWH and is responsible for the day-to-day management of the firm. Dr. Rzepczynski characterizes markets as operating
in one of two states; a convergent period when prices are relatively calm and stable and a
divergent period marked by heightened volatility and uncertainty as prices move from one
equilibrium to another. He goes on to argue that the typical method taught for decision
making in efficient markets - whereby the investor attempts to evaluate all possible future
scenarios and assigns a likelihood to each - may be possible in the former case but breaks
down in the latter. As a solution, Rzepczynski describes the 'fast and frugal' decision-making process
used at JWH in which the emphasis is spent on extracting signals from the market rather than
trying to gather and process all available information. Lecture presentation lasts 32 minutes
followed by 15 minutes of question and answer. |
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Speaker: Paul Tudor Jones
Chairman and CEO, Tudor Investments Corp.
From a humble start in 1976 as a cotton trader, Paul Tudor Jones grew to become one of the more
successful and famous commodity traders of his time. Featured in Jack Schwager's best-seller,
The Market Wizards, Paul Jones in this 30-minute audio-video clip shares his thoughts
on the four ways to make money on Wall Street including the importance of trend following. With reference to the phenomenal growth
of the energy contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange, Paul Jones draws attention
to the growing participation of hedge funds, and ends with a prediction of still greater
trading activity should rates of inflation return to levels of 25 years ago. On a personal note
and against the backdrop of 9/11 and lingering terrorist concerns, Paul Jones opens his presentation
with a discussion of what he believes is the single greatest danger to residents of New York City
and how the danger can be eliminated. |
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