INVEST FAIR 2010 - INVEST WITH KNOWLEDGE

What you will learn:

• Using gifts of memory, math and interpersonal skills, Buffett has become the world's most renowned investor and most respected chief executive. Taking a small textile company and building it into one of the world's foremost conglomerates is an extraordinary tale of genius combined with character. This presentation tells how he did it.
• Why should all investors study Warren Buffett? What unique gifts of birth, combined with well-developed character traits and habits, have enabled him to become one of the world’s most successful investors and most admired chief executives.
• Listen and discover how Warren Buffett combines several areas of genius (the science of math and the art of linguistic, memory and interpersonal skills) to accomplish what few have done. 

Workshop Outline: 

• 8 ways IQ can be measured
• The difference between character and reputation and how it is used to make investments
• What is value investing?
• 3 lessons from Warren Buffett's professor
• The stock Buffett liked best when he was 21 years old
• How Buffett defines risk
• Building a world class management team without ever losing a CEO to a competitor

Workshop Director:

Robert P. Miles (www.robertpmiles.com) is an internationally acclaimed keynote presenter, author and distinguished authority on Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway.

Pursued by journalists and media moguls on just about each and every move that Mr. Buffett makes, Robert is not only a long term shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway [nyse: BRKa/BRKb], he has had the great honor of getting to know Warren Buffett, the man and the remarkable wealth-building strategist.

He is the author of 3 books, has created assorted audio and video programs, and has appeared on many radio and television programs on five continents, including NPR, CNN, CNN International, CNBC, FOX Business, Channel News Asia, Sky Business News, Shanghai Today, CNBC Asia, CNBC Africa and Bloomberg TV. His Buffett CEO book was featured as a special on National Public Television's Nightly Business Report.

As the writer of the top-selling books The Warren Buffett CEO: Secrets From the Berkshire Hathaway Managers and 101 Reasons To Own the World's Greatest Investment: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway [Wiley], Robert has relentlessly followed his passion and found great success in doing so. 

He is the author and presenter of Warren Buffett Wealth: Principles and Practical Methods Used by the World’s Greatest Investor [Wiley (book) and Nightingale (audio)]. He is host of the Buffett CEO Talk video series, conversations with the Berkshire Hathaway managers filmed before live studio audiences and broadcast on public television.

Many of his live keynotes, along with his hardcover and paperback books have been translated into assorted foreign languages, including Chinese, Korean, Thai, Japanese, and Vietnamese.

Known for his subtle wit and entertaining stories, this author without borders has shared his valuable insights, strategies, philosophies, and anecdotes with enthusiastic audiences throughout the world.

For more than a decade, Miles has given hundreds of live presentations throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia in 14 countries, 45 cities and 9 universities.

Miles is the founder and host of the original Value Investor Conference held each year immediately following the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. Attendees from all 6 continents enjoy this unique retreat style forum featuring presentations from Warren Buffett CEOs, global investment managers and best selling authors.

Miles is a graduate of the University of Michigan Business School and resides in Tampa, Florida.

演讲纲要:

• 新加坡股市及亚洲各重要股市、欧美股市趋势分析.
• 房市、石 油、黄金走势.
• 胡氏股票投资必胜心法.

What you will learn:

• Why consistency is one of the most important traits of traders - consistency in the execution of their trading plan from entry to position sizing to exiting.
• Consistent means that when you see a potential trading opportunity that no longer meets your entry setup, you don't trade it.
• Most traders trade randomly - they will look for trading opportunities indiscriminately without any process or methodology. This is why most lose money.
• How to enhance profits with better trading solutions.
• The easiest way to trade is simply with the trend - how we can develop strategies based on the trend.

Workshop Outline: 

• Some of the most effective trading methods have very simple trading rules and entry criteria, and winning traders often use very simple techniques; however, they will use them consistently.
• The key principles for developing a trading strategy that trades with the trend.
• Committing to mastering one trading setup and then executing it with great discipline and consistency.
• Using the right tactics at the right time.
• Price action analysis.

Workshop Director:

Stuart McPhee is a private trader and one of Australia's most compelling speakers on trading, as well as being a trader for 14 years. You will appreciate Stuart's approachable and candid style, whether you are a professional trader or a complete beginner.

His best selling trading book, 'Trading in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition' (John Wiley) as well as his presentations, are not about vague concepts that don't work in the real world. They are about incredibly practical, timesaving strategies that you need to implement in order to become an extremely successful trader.

Stuart has previously presented at the New York and Los Angeles Traders Expos, the Australian Securities Exchange, at Traders' Expos around Australia, for the Australian Technical Analysts Association, Trader Conventions in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City, Shenzhen, Mumbai and Bangkok, and the Global Chinese Financial Forum in Dalian.

If you genuinely want to become an ultra-versatile trader and develop an incredible lifestyle, you need a trading plan. Stuart truly understands the importance of finding a trading plan and approach that is right for you. He advises, "Trading is like any other profession. You need to learn the basics, then develop and hone your skills through application."

What you will learn:

• Empirical proof that the patterns are valid.
• Practical application of pattern recognition for trading stocks, bonds, forex and commodities.

Workshop Outline:

• Larry Pesavento will teach you the theory and basis for pattern recognition swing trading and its application to technical analysis. He will show you how to select the patterns with the highest probability for success that is better than 70% of the time.You will learn the best entry and exit techniques, the proper use of stop placement, and discover the simple daily rituals to improve your mental focus, prevent common errors, and make the best of your trading time.
• You will find out how to find the harmonic numbers in each of the issues you trade and learn to use them to increase profitability and control risk more efficiently. Finally, you’ll learn to prepare your own trading plan that fits your style using all of the above technical guidelines and prove to yourself that you have the mental toughness and discipline to be a successful trader without risking any capital.

Workshop Director:

Larry Pesavento is a 45 year veteran trader. He began his career trading full time in 1967 while in graduate school getting an MBA in Finance following a BS in Pharmacy. He managed the commodities department of Drexel Burnham Lambert in Southern California from 1976 to 1981. In 1982 he became a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange where was a local in the S&Ps currency pits. Following this he worked for a commodity corporation in Princeton New Jersey from 1985 to 1986 and in 1987 he wrote Astro Cycles The Traders Viewpoint and published a newsletter Astro Cycles until 1995.

He has one of the most extensive libraries on the subject of technical analysis and has trained over 1000 traders using the pattern recognition swing trading methodology described in his books. Over the past 25 years he has written 10 books on trading.

What you will learn:

• An in-depth and multi-media review by Buffett Wealth author Robert Miles of simple principles used by Warren Buffett to become a multi-billionaire.
• Beginning students as well as professional investors will be informed and entertained by Buffett’s practical, value-based, and ethical investing methods.

Workshop Outline: 

• 4 ways to create wealth
• The difference between rich and wealthy -  one temporary and the other more permanent 
• Why Warren studies the best in every field of endeavor
• 3 lessons from Buffett's mentor
• What you need to know about yourself to be a successful investor
• Why every investor should prefer down markets
• 5 criteria Buffett looks for in an investment
• What you can learn from Buffett's investment mistakes
• 5 principles from the next Warren Buffett
• The circle of wealth: how Buffett plans to give all of his wealth back to the world

Workshop Director:

Robert P. Miles (www.robertpmiles.com) is an internationally acclaimed keynote presenter, author and distinguished authority on Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway.

Pursued by journalists and media moguls on just about each and every move that Mr. Buffett makes, Robert is not only a long term shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway [nyse: BRKa/BRKb], he has had the great honor of getting to know Warren Buffett, the man and the remarkable wealth-building strategist.

He is the author of 3 books, has created assorted audio and video programs, and has appeared on many radio and television programs on five continents, including NPR, CNN, CNN International, CNBC, FOX Business, Channel News Asia, Sky Business News, Shanghai Today, CNBC Asia, CNBC Africa and Bloomberg TV. His Buffett CEO book was featured as a special on National Public Television's Nightly Business Report.

As the writer of the top-selling books The Warren Buffett CEO: Secrets From the Berkshire Hathaway Managers and 101 Reasons To Own the World's Greatest Investment: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway [Wiley], Robert has relentlessly followed his passion and found great success in doing so. 

He is the author and presenter of Warren Buffett Wealth: Principles and Practical Methods Used by the World’s Greatest Investor [Wiley (book) and Nightingale (audio)]. He is host of the Buffett CEO Talk video series, conversations with the Berkshire Hathaway managers filmed before live studio audiences and broadcast on public television.

Many of his live keynotes, along with his hardcover and paperback books have been translated into assorted foreign languages, including Chinese, Korean, Thai, Japanese, and Vietnamese.

Known for his subtle wit and entertaining stories, this author without borders has shared his valuable insights, strategies, philosophies, and anecdotes with enthusiastic audiences throughout the world.

For more than a decade, Miles has given hundreds of live presentations throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia in 14 countries, 45 cities and 9 universities.

Miles is the founder and host of the original Value Investor Conference held each year immediately following the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. Attendees from all 6 continents enjoy this unique retreat style forum featuring presentations from Warren Buffett CEOs, global investment managers and best selling authors.

Miles is a graduate of the University of Michigan Business School and resides in Tampa, Florida.

What you will learn:

• Participants will learn the common pitfalls in using technical indicators.
• Learn to fade the signals given by traditional RSI readings.
• Learn a short and medium setup that trades RSI overbought and oversold level in contrarian fashion for a possible explosive move.

Workshop Outline: 

• Journey of a typical trader and the challenges faced.
• Common mistakes in using technical indicators.
• Common uses of RSI and their limitations.
• An alternative application of RSI – The RSI “POP”.
• Shortcoming and improvement to RSI “POP”.
• Tools for stocks selection and intra-day signal generation.
• Preparation for the trade.

Workshop Director:

A full-time active trader in the equities and derivatives markets. CK is a co-founder of Asia Charts Pte Ltd. He is also the Chief Trainer as well as the Chief Operating Officer of the Company. He is practitioner of technical analysis and has been actively trading since 1993 in both Singapore, Malaysia and US Markets.

He focuses in trading growth stocks that have potential for big gains and using derivative instruments like options and warrants for better returns. In his 17 years of trading experience, CK has developed dozens of trading systems and methods for medium and short term (both swing and intra-day) trading.

CK hold a bachelor degree of Science from University of London and Master of Science from National University of Singapore. He is also a certified behaviour consultant.

What you will learn:

• Attain a strong foundation and framework for understanding investment principles and concepts for investing in the stock market
• Acquire the disciplines of stock valuation and selection and stock transaction timing from the three perspectives of stick investment namely:
  1. Fundamental Analysis
  2. Technical Analysis
  3. Investment Psychology

Workshop Outline:

• The need for a clear definition of investing
• The 3R’s of investing
• Emotional investing vs intelligent investing
• Developing financial intelligence
• Ideas from Warren Buffet – qualitative aspect of investing
• The discipline of stock valuation and selection using fundamental analysis
• The discipline of stock transaction timing using technical analysis
• Stock selection through valuation techniques – valuation ratio analysis. “What stocks to buy/sell?”
• Stock transaction timing through momentum and moving average techniques. “When to buy/sell stocks?”
• A MUST attend workshop if you are thinking of investing in the stock market or if you are already invested in the stock market.

Workshop Director:

Mr Robert C.S. Tay, MBA (UNSW), BA , Economics & Sociology (NUS) is a Trading Representative with UOB Kay Hian. He has 30 years of experience in International Currency and Deposit Broking, Stock Broking and Securities Research. His career appointments include: Director, Research, Phillip Securities Pte Ltd and Vice President, Dealing, Morgan Grenfell Securities Pte Ltd.

Robert has conducted investment courses / workshops for SGX, Institute of Banking & Finance and The Securities Investors Association. A frequent speaker on investment management and strategies, he has been invited by the press, radio and television for his views on the stock market and the economy.

Robert has conducted workshops and courses on Japanese Candlestick Charting for The Singapore Exchange (SGX) and The Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF). He has also conducted workshop on Candlestick Charting for the Treasury Department of ABN Amro Bank on currency trading.

What you will learn:

• How to set up, apply, and use a traditional trading strategy and compare the results to the New "FlowBox" System.

Workshop Outline: 

• Professional Traders Approach "KISS!"
• Novice Traders Behavior
• A Traditional Trading Strategy
• The New more effective way to Trade using "FlowBox Charting"

Workshop Director:

Bert Antonik is a Master Trader and Senior Instructor with Online Trading Academy Singapore who teaches, Equities, Forex, Options, Technical Analysis and How to Develop your Personal Trading Plan. He is a retired US Navy Commander who brings nearly 4 decades of trading knowledge and experience to his presentations. The dynamic and totally engaging approach he brings to teaching comes from years of hands-on, trial by fire experience and an inexhaustible passion for trading and teaching.

Bert knows exactly how and why people run into trading obstacles. Even more importantly, he knows exactly how to help them avoid trading hazards because he has been down the hard road looking for the Trader's Grail. You can’t help but become a better trader when you participate in a class taught by Bert because he is not just a great trader but he knows how to teach. Students who attend his class are inspired and confident that they will be successful traders.

For more information and to read what students say about Bert visit: www.tradingacademy.com/about-us/instructors/Bert-Antonik.aspx