These hard-hitting seminars can help you learn the strategies of some of the most successful traders in the nation and help you refine your trader’s edge. These workshops allow these master traders to teach you the details and intricacies of the game, setting you apart from the average trader and in turn growing your profits. Simply put, these intensive sessions will make advanced, proven strategies and techniques easier to understand and put to use. The Application and Psychology of Pattern Recognition Saturday, February 16 • 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Larry Pesavento   is a veteran of five decades of trading and is a former member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange where he traded the S&P futures and foreign currencies during the early 80s. Larry has been a guest on FNN (now CNBC) and is currently a private trader for a large hedge fund using a system of pattern recognition and swing trading as his methodology. This approach eliminates the random nature of market action. He has one of the most extensive trading libraries in the world, which he utilized in his personal training of over 800 traders in the past 22 years. He managed Drexel Burnam Lambert’s Commodity Department in Southern California for six years and is the author of ten books on technical trading, psychology, and financial astrology. During this four-hour presentation, you’ll observe his pattern-recognition techniques in a simulated trading environment. Some of the topics that will be covered in the presentation include: • How to find the basic patterns—there are 12 basic patterns that with a little effort can be easily identified • How to quantify the risk/reward equation—risk is the only factor that the trader can control and he must focus his effort on risk • Proper use of Fibonacci numbers and why it is not necessary to count Elliott Wave when using pattern recognition • How to manage the trade when it doesn’t work—the difference between the professional and the amateur, the professional recognizes his mistake quicker and how to correct it • How to prepare yourself mentally each day—trading is no different from any other professional endeavor and mental preparation is of paramount importance • The harmonic numbers are found in all markets and this repetition can be utilized for profit projections and stop placement • Proper use of money management and leverage will be illustrated during the trading day $295 per person SAVE $50 — Purchase by January 23: $245 per person (Includes refreshments) Classic Technical Trading Saturday, February 16 • 9:00 am – 4:00 pm The mastery of trading is a never-ending pursuit. Knowledge of and confidence in a workable methodology is just a departure point. Consistency in the approach and application of a particular technique will be the real key to a trader’s success. So, though initial market and trading theory is important, it is not until a trader attempts to put actual technique into actual practice that the real learning begins. This exclusive course affords you the opportunity to talk everything from pre-market preparation to managing a trade log with one of the country’s best. Linda Raschke   will examine actual trades and explain the thought process that accompanies each profitable sell or painful loss, teaching you how to avoid the bad and find the good in the market. You will begin to more quickly recognize mistakes and correct them independently. $795 per person SAVE $100—Purchase by January 23: $695 per person (Includes refreshments, box lunch, and manual)   This full-day session will cover: • The principles of price behavior: higher probability of continuation than reversal, momentum precedes price, trends end in climax, alternation between expansion and contraction • Basic market structure: bull and bear flags; breakout formations; climax patterns and wave reversals • Indicators: Keltner channels, the 3/10 oscillator, 10-bar divergence signal • Pivot points and gaps • Intraday timing with market internals • Trade management and exiting a position Ultimately, the best traders don't try to figure out all of the market’s peculiarities. They follow their methodology and find confidence in following the rules and structures they have created for themselves. The ideas presented here will take on more meaning as your experience grows. And as you gain in experience, your confidence and success will continue to grow. Combine Time-Tested Trading Tools, High- Probability Trade Set-Ups, and Solid Money-Management Skills to Improve Your Trading Saturday, February 16 • 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Timothy Morge   has been a professional trader, author, educator, and mentor for more than 30 years. Besides trading his own capital, Tim is the founder and president of Blackthorne Capital, a private money management firm that works with several of the largest non-US institutional investors and their portfolios. In the 1980s and 1990s, he was one of the world’s largest currency traders, routinely carrying positions of several billion US dollars while managing and teaching other traders for institutions like First Chicago [now JP Morgan] and Commodities Corporation [now a part of Goldman Sachs]. For the past several years, Tim has taught seminars for hundreds of professional traders at the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange, teaching them how to successfully make the transition from market makers on the trading floors to become off-floor electronic traders. He is the author of several highly regarded books. Some of the topics that will be covered in the seminar include: • Tim will teach you how he identifies likely swing highs and swing lows as they form, giving him a solid lead on the majority of other market participants when trends are in the process of turning. • Tim will teach you the profitable way he uses median lines or pitchforks, which are simple, yet powerful tools developed in the early 1920s to identify the likely path of price and time. Tim is well known as the leading authority on the median line trading tools pioneered by Dr. Alan Andrews. These tools work in any time frame, on any market, and Tim has spent the past 30+ years testing and refining them. • Tim will teach you several of his own proprietary high probability trade set-ups that work well in all markets, in all time frames. • In a step-by-step fashion, Tim will show you how he combines his trading tools with solid money-management and risk reward. The combination of trading repeatable high probability trade set ups using solid money management practices can greatly enhance your profitability in the marketplace. • Tim will show you how he ‘boxes in’ profits as trades unfold and mature. He’ll teach you how to correctly use entry, stop loss, stop profit, contingent, and trailing orders in your own trading, whether you use an electronic trading platform or call your orders in to a brokerage firm. $295 per person SAVE $50—Purchase by January 23: $245 per person (Includes refreshments) Trading Market Synergy Sunday, February 17 • 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm Join Raghee Horner   for a brand new presentation as she walks you through how to incorporate forex, futures, and stocks in a complementary manner for more and better trading opportunities. Forex and futures traders will benefit from knowing which forex pairs and commodity futures contracts can work synergistically for trade confirmation as well as increasing the accuracy of entries. Not to mention the benefit of having multiple trading set-up opportunities! Stock traders can learn how to trade index futures contracts, holders, and ETFs. Futures traders can learn which stocks work most synergistically with particular futures contracts. Topics covered will include: • Confirm forex entries with futures for better accuracy • Learn which stocks move with particular futures contracts • Trade stocks and futures together for more opportunities • Trade index futures and the stocks that are most correlated with the contract • Understand commodity currencies • Use the US dollar index when forex trading • Raghee will share her basket of stocks and futures that she trades This is the presentation for the complete trader. Raghee will teach you how you can use the same set-ups, indicators, and strategies to trade any market whether it is end-of-day, intraday, forex, futures, or stocks. Never be limited by the market you trade again. Trade the most active markets. Know how to analyze any chart! $295 per person SAVE $50—Purchase by January 23: $245 per person (Includes refreshments)   Modern Option Trading Techniques Sunday, February 17 • 8:30 am – 12:30 pm Today’s option market not only offers new products, such as volatility options, but also is trading with a volatility not seen in a decade. This workshop is designed to give you techniques for implementing new option techniques and for turning volatility to your advantage. After some basic definitions are covered (option models, implied volatility, futures contracts), Larry McMillan   will delve into several diverse option topics. First, the use of options as a contrary indicator will be discussed—particularly as it applies to the volatility index ($VIX) and weighted put-call ratios. Then we’ll describe how to trade the high volatility in today’s market through strategies designed just for this purpose—both from a speculative as well as a hedged perspective. This will include straddles, calendar spreads, diagonal spreads, and ratio spreads—all of which can be employed in a high-volatility market. Finally, we’ll look at the newest application: trading volatility options; how they’re priced; why they’re different than stock options; how to use them for speculation; and—perhaps most importantly—why they’re the best way to protect a stock portfolio (as opposed to the old, tired strategy of buying index puts). Joe Troccolo will provide you, the advanced retail trader, the same insight into advanced valuation techniques, trading and investing strategies, risk management and risk control principles for equity derivatives that he shares with leading market professionals. Joe's clients include hedge funds, investment banks, wealth management firms, and asset managers around the world. $295 per person SAVE $50—Purchase by January 23: $245 per person (Includes refreshments) Using Market Internals to Perfect Your Trading in all Time Frames Monday, February 18 • 8:30 am – 12:30 pm President and CEO of Pristine, professional trader, and bestselling author Greg Capra  , will show you the same techniques he has taught thousands of traders on how to increase their opportunities to consistently profit from the markets. During this four-hour intensive seminar, Greg will show you how to use market internals to time your trades to pull larger profits out of the market trading in all time frames and how you can do the same. Understanding price patterns and trends is one element of the technical trader’s toolbox, market internals is another, trading with one without the other would be like playing a card game without knowing half the deck is missing. This seminar will cover the following, and much more: • How market internals can help you avoid pattern failures • The market internals that have consistently provided a guide to indicating market tops and bottoms • Breadth market internals covered will show you how to determine historical reference points to evaluate support and resistance areas • Sentiment market internals covered will provide you with a historical reference point of trader’s bias • Intraday market internals will be covered to show you how to choose the best patterns for income producing results • End-of-day market internals will be covered for swing- and core-trading If you really want to improve your results, you will not want to miss this comprehensive program thousands worldwide have learned from. A comprehensive companion manual will be provided to each attendee. Each participant will also receive a free two-week trial to three positiontrading newsletters, plus access to two live online chat rooms with Greg Capra giving his daily technical analysis commentary and other lessons. ($200 Value) Free Drawing!! Greg will give away one free five day live online course he will teach on how to trade the E-Mini’s during market hours, one free online course on how to trade in any time frame, one one-hour one-on-one coaching session, and several sets of DVDs. (Total value of over $7,000) $295 per person SAVE $50—Purchase by January 23: $245 per person (Includes refreshments) Taxes for Traders Monday, February 18 • 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm Join noted trader tax expert Robert Green  , CPA, CEO of GreenTraderTax and author of The Tax Guide for Traders, as he explains the difference between traders and investors come tax time. There are significant tax benefits to being a trader, but only if you know how to take advantage of them. Robert has worked with thousands of traders over the years, and he knows what needs to be done for tax preparation and filing. An ordinary CPA is likely to miss out on certain deductions and nuances, but Robert won’t. And, after this course, you won’t either. He will focus on such topics as: • What it takes to qualify as a trader (rather than an investor) • The benefits/drawbacks of forming a trading entity, such as a general partnership or an LLC • Various deductions traders are allowed to take, especially if they work from a home office • Setting up a retirement plan—a difficult thing for traders, since trading produces income that is different from “traditional” income He will walk you through the steps necessary to receive every tax break you are entitled to. Profitable traders as well as those who lost money in the markets need this information. Tax time is stressful for everyone, but knowing all the tricks of the trade will help ease your mind. $295 per person SAVE $50—Purchase by January 23: $245 per person (Includes refreshments) Eat What You Kill: The Complete UndergroundTrader.com Method to Spot, Strike, and Keep Profits in the Markets Tuesday, February 19 • 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Making money in the markets is not the hard part, keeping it is. Everyone can make a profitable trade. The problem is the misallocation of shares and mismanagement on unprofitable trades. Traders who make money in fertile periods tend to give it back and much more through the infertile periods. Everyone has a threshold level of profits they make before slipping back down. On the flipside, everyone has a loss threshold they hit before they slip into the point of no return. This is a fact that has been discovered through thousands of hours of daily market analysis. Methods alone are not enough. Environment and management are just as important. Jea Yu   will delve deep into the key elements that can turn your trading progress around and back into the green. He will go over the complete methods as well as focusing heavily on aspects that are overlooked but critical to trading success. The whole basis of Jea’s methods is to catch the moves ahead of the crowd and to profit through peak cycles while keeping drawdowns to a minimum through valley cycles. In this intensive seminar, you will learn: • Setup of the stochastics moving averages charts and workspace (templates included for many popular platform packages) • Analyzing quantifiable support/resistance and targets • Utilizing futures as a lead indicator for equities • Identifying peak and valley market trading periods and cycles • Playing the trend, the exhaustion, and the reversal • Channel tightening and widening cycle trades • Defacto 2.50 and stinky 5s price support/resistance levels • Utilizing the .10 overshoots for equities and 2 pt E-minis overshoots • Utilizing time frame convergence to foreshadow price moves • Key candle formations • Playing the market laggards and faders • Pup and mini-pup patterns for the prime setups and perfect storms • Trade management from entry triggers to exits • Maximizing reward while limiting risk through share paring and scaling • Playing gapers/dumpers/news stories • Pre- and post-market analysis • Deadzone and the witching hour: why you need to avoid these periods daily • Managing your P/L threshold levels • How to nurse your threshold levels higher • Spotting the abyss and staying away • Maintaining apathy and closure: the mental game of trading • Pacing your progress from paper to cash Jea will outline the whole methodology full circle in a single seminar session. Attendees will receive a copy of the presentation and a free ten-day trial to the Undergroundtrader.com. The lessons learned from this intensive seminar can be put to use the very next day. This seminar is new and revamped for 2008, catering to new and advanced traders alike. If you’ve been searching for a methodology that will see immediate results, then this is the seminar you won’t want to miss. $395 per person SAVE $50—Purchase by January 23: $345 per person (Includes refreshments; one-hour lunch break on your own.)