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DAY-TIME HUDDLE TOPICS

Updated: 24 October, 2009

NOTE:

Daytime Huddles will be operated

during lunch breaks on

Saturday and Sunday

(at lunch tables and around the upstairs foyer area).

They will run on an ad hoc and informal basis.

Summary List

1 Elliott, Gann, etc. 3

1.1.1 Elliot Wave 3

1.1.2 Gann 3

1.1.3 Financial Astrology 3

2 Mechanical Trading systems 3

3 Software 3

3.1.1 Charting software 3

3.1.2 Trading platform software 3

4 Trading Styles, Plans, Strategies 4

5 Psychology and emotions of trading 4

6 Various financial instruments: 4

7 Trading strategies 5

8 Indicators 5

9 YOUR CHOICE 5

10 YOUR CHOICE 5

Robert Brain

Daytime Huddles will be operated during lunch breaks on Saturday and Sunday (at lunch tables and around the upstairs foyer area).

Elliott, Gann, etc.

1 Elliot Wave

2 Gann

3 Financial Astrology

Mechanical Trading systems

Mechanical Trading Systems - Ideas that work

Software options:-

Strategies

Software

1 Charting software

Insight Trading

AmiBroker software for beginners

AmiBroker advanced and programming

Newest developments in software

MetaStock

BullCharts

ProTrader (Frank Watkins' software, and not ComSec's platform)

other?...

2 Trading platform software

Useful software platforms, e.g. NinjaTrader, eSignal, SierraCharts, ButtonTrader

Others?

Key features

Problems or issues with each?

Trading Styles, Plans, Strategies

Introduction — The complete process of trading (from start to finish)

Good elements of a trading Plan / Strategy

Trading Plan ideas

Trading Plans — especially how to stick to them

How the different time frames affect decision-making.

Find best trading system ideas

Set ups & money management

Stop loss Techniques

Should Stop-losses move with their index?

An idea of how other traders trade eg methodology

Pre-buy check lists, trading plans

How to take the next step

What is your trading routine? How much time per week?

Do you have Daily tasks, and Weekly tasks? and Monthly tasks?

Does this change depending on whether you are an intra-day trader versus EOD trader,

versus End-Of-Week trader?

Psychology and emotions of trading

Psychology — List (and describe) the most common psychological challenges traders face

(aim to list ten).

How do people deal with these challenges successfully?

The Traders Mindset — describe it.

Micro feedback techniques. i.e. modifying short term trade behaviour based on immediately prior trade actions & results.

Various financial instruments:

Options Trading & strategies

CFD trading. Good and bad points

The pitfalls in CFDs & how to avoid them.

The highest rates payable by brokers on long AUDJPY?

Shares — trading Australian shares & the impact of capital raisings on these

Shares (equities) trading

Metals commodities / futures

US mortgage resets over the next 2 years

Trading strategies

Trading the Penny Dreadfuls.

Talk about transition from part time to full time trader.

Hedging AUD/USD via CFD. Entry/exit/stops ideas

Any new technical trading techniques people are using

Sector analysis - does it add anything?

Index trading

Stock selection

Day Trading

Intraday Trading Strategies and practical details of intraday trading.

Swing trading versus day-trading.

Short term traders

Full time traders

Techniques to trade side-ways market (using end of day data)

Trading Systems and Strategies

Trading System Development

entry signals

exit signals

Selection strategies for potential tradeable stocks

Using conditional orders (effectively)

Breakout Searches

Pattern Analysis

Indicators

What are the most useful indicators?

What are the optimum parameter values for specific indicators?

(eg. 28-period Momentum, 14-period RSI, 30-week Moving Average, etc.).

What is the best way (strategies/indicators etc) to determine a trend?

What are the best indicators for identifying impulse moves?

YOUR CHOICE

Write your own topic on the Huddle Sign

YOUR CHOICE

Write your own topic on the Huddle Sign

Other topics To-Be-filed:

Any differences between private and institutional traders

During the GFC did you follow your trading plan?

Did you make any emotional decisions during the GFC that you later regretted?

The effect of computerised high-frequency trading on retail investors/traders using technical analysis

Portfolio management

What records to keep? and Why?

Futures

Futures Trading — eMini, EuroSTOXX50, DAX, SPI, K200, others? etc

Should beginner traders consider futures trading?

SPI Futures;

Gold Futures

Soy beans and other soft commodities

Options approach for Futures (eMini, EuroSTOXX50, DAX, SPI, K200 etc)

The basics of trading eMinis and S&P500, software, strategy, etc.

Best brokers for eMinis (futures contracts), S&P500, forex

Forex

General FX strategies

Advanced Trading Strategies

Forex trading — entry and exit

Part Time Forex systems that work.

Analysis techniques suited to short term FX trading

Technical analysis — misc

Which types of charts? Bar, candlestick P&F?

Elliot Wave (options for incorporating in any strategy)

Gann

Financial Astrology

Pattern Analysis

The most useful candlestick pattern(s)

Techniques to recognise possible end of bubble/bull run.

Money and Risk Management

Risk management — specify the different approaches, and things to consider

Money management — specify the different approaches, and things to consider

Portfolio management — specify the different approaches, and things to consider

Position sizing — specify the different approaches, and things to consider

Professional Money Management Strategies

Trade Management

How to manage your trades?

How to keep a Traders Journal and why. What things should you record in the journal?

Is a Traders Diary useful?

Exiting long trades (using end of day data) ie when to sell, what techniques, when not to sell, taking profits, parabolic trendlines, preserving capital, ATR stops, kangaroo tails, etc.

Explore the options, methods, software to track trade statistics:-

simple Excel spreadsheet vs "complicated" software. eg JBL risk manager.

Is it worth the effort?

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