Following a collaborative agreement between the Australian Professional Technical Analysts (APTA) Inc and the Market Technicians Association (MTA), members of the MTA receive honorary APTA membership and are entitled to attend all APTA meetings. The APTA Management Committee extend a warm welcome to our MTA colleagues.

* Please note that APTA and MTA members receive 3 Continuing Education (CE) Credits for attending the meeting. 

6.00pm:

Speaker: Bryan (Byung Joon) Chung CMT, CFA, CFTe

Topic: The Cyclical Trading Approach

The cyclical trading approach is to enter a market in the direction of the trend, buying cyclical bottoms using mechanical trading signals when the trend is up, and selling cyclical tops when the trend is down. In addition, at anticipated longer-term cyclical tops and bottoms, one can trade trend reversals, due to the direction of the longer-term cycles setting the trend for the shorter-term cycle.

Biography: Bryan came to Australia in 1990s as an overseas student. After completing the Master of Commerce degree at Sydney University in 1997, he went back to South Korea and worked at major Korean financial institutions for several years as a stock broker and a wealth manager. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a Chartered Market Technician (CMT), and a Certified Financial Technician (CFTe).

At present, he is living in Sydney with his family and is active as a private trader trading with his own capital in the major Futures markets around the world.

Bryan has built a mechanical trading system based on market cycles to capture most of the sizeable profit potentials generated by longer-term trending moves in any given market.

7.00pm:

Speaker: Kingsley Jones CFA

Topic: Mind of the Market Average (MOMA): The Fundamentals of Investor Sentiment 

Kingsley's presentation is about Investor Sentiment, as measured by Kingsley's Mind of Market Average (MOMA). This is a tool he developed at CSFB in 2002 to help measure the average profit and loss of investors on their portfolios, for both stocks and indices. The so-called Savvy Yabby Model will be introduced and explained with some topical examples from today's markets.

The goal of the presentation is to add weight to the growing evidence from quantitative traders that technical analysis is sensible, rational and effective.

Biography: Kingsley has pursued both scientific and market interests throughout his career. He started out as a scientist, but turned to trading markets to supplement his income. This interest became a passion and he then became a professional investor. In the past fifteen years, he was an analyst at County Investment Management, a stockbroker at Credit Suisse First Boston, part of a market leading value team at AllianceBernstein LP, a quantitative trader and portfolio manager of the Macquarie Global Thematic Fund (which finished #1 in its class).

In April 2011, Kingsley closed down the fund and left Macquarie to develop a different kind of "principal-to-principal" investment firm. That firm is launching in 2012, and will focus on investor education, investment strategy research and fund incubation.  

Visit www.krwjones.com for more information.