Just the Right Time to Sell Arguably the most difficult and challenging chore in money management is, “when to sell and how to do it.” Proposals for new capital gains tax legislation are likely. Robert Stovall, managing director, Wood Asset Management, Inc., outlines how mechanical wisdom regarding stock selling strategies should be understood: fundamental “red flags” identified, psychological phenomenon respected, and technical patterns noted. Selling actions should follow. Bear Market Blues and How Not to Get Burned KCI’s resident jack-of-all-trades Neil George, editor of Personal Finance, Neil George’s Inner Circle, The Yield Letter, and Pay Me Weekly, will share his latest investment ideas for the current market. As editor of one of the world’s highest circulation investment advisories, Personal Finance, he is well known for his diligent research, a deep knowledge of the inner workings of the investment world, and uncanny ability to find the best stocks flying under Wall Street’s radar. How to Get Started in Options Saturday, August 9 • 3:15 pm - 5:00 pm Join top options instructor Peter Zomaya as he shows you how to use options to diversify your portfolio and generate significant returns in all markets. Discover the basics of options trading and see why they are one of today’s best-kept secrets for making hefty returns with limited risk. Here’s your opportunity to learn how professionals use options to control risk and maximize earnings—and how you can, too. As a respected long-time instructor and trader, Mr. Zomaya specializes in teaching options strategies to self-directed investors. He has taught tens of thousands of people how to properly trade options using controlled-risk strategies, and how to take advantage of the many benefits that individual investors have over floor traders. Tom Sosnoff: Positioning Your Portfolio for 2008 Election Volatility Friday, August 8 • 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Trading ideas, contrarian theory, electiontime nervousness? Combine the power of thinkorswim technology, lame humor, and stock market insights in this new, thinkorswim-sponsored evening event. thinkorswim founder Tom Sosnoff will lead you through the trade selection methods he uses to trade successfully for whatever the rest of 2008 holds. Passport to International Opportunities International stock markets have outperformed the US markets over the past several years as economic growth in other countries has outstripped ours. However, in 2008, stock markets worldwide have pulled back. Allan Nichols, CFA, editor, Morningstar InternationalInvestor, will show you why international investing can still help your portfolio and how you can take advantage of faster growth in other countries. He will also show how Morningstar's consistent approach to analyzing companies can reduce your risk and lead to opportunities available outside the US as well as sharing his favorite stocks. Extreme Income Investing Take high yield investing to the next level and discover how sophisticated structured products and leverage strategies are able to deliver current yields of up to 20% in short-term instruments. Bryan Perry, editor, The 25% Cash Machine and Tactical Trader, uncovers new ways to make up to five times what the highest CDs are paying in securities that are based on Wall Street’s favorite big-cap stocks. With interest rates so low, its time to see what new, creative methods of income are available to the investor seeking outsized yields.   Profit from Meltdown Mania John Dessauer, editor, John Dessauer’s Investor’s World, will discuss why he believes that hysteria has infected the Wall Street crowd’s psyche and why the crowd is dead wrong. Homeowners are rational, responsible, competent managers of their financial affairs including home loans. He’ll share his thoughts on why the mortgage mess is not a bank killer and banks are among your best investments. Scanning Made Simple: Stock Scanning for Beginners Saturday, August 9 • 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm Scanning for stocks use to mean either complicated formula languages or canned limited choices. In this workshop we will show you that anyone can scan for stocks based on any conditions imagined. We take you step-by-step through dragging items from your charts and instantly transforming them into conditions that can find stocks in seconds based on your own ideas. We will scan for stocks moving this minute on strong volume, stocks with earnings growth and even stocks experiencing accumulation by institutions. This is just the beginning. It’s worth coming to class to jot down the stocks we uncover with unprecedented drag-and-drop two-second scanning technology. Following Investment Newsletters in an Election Year The stock market follows a distant cycle during the four years of a President’s term; what works at some points in the cycle doesn’t necessarily work in others. Mark Hulbert, editor, The Hulbert Financial Digest, and a regular columnist for the Sunday edition of The New York Times, has complied 26 years of research in the performance of financial newsletters. In this session, he uses his vast historical database to examine newsletter success and failure and its correlation with major elections, including predictions in 2008. Harvesting Wealth Through Dividends The allure of reliable and growing dividends is still misunderstood and ignored by the market at large—which provides tremendous opportunity for disciplined income investors. Josh Peters, editor, Morningstar DividendInvestor, will share his unique approach to building portfolios that stand to meet real-world financial needs through cash dividends. In addition to the essentials of his strategy—the income, insight, and independence that dividends and dividends alone can provide—he will provide several of his top recommendations for consistent income and income growth. Learn to Trade the Forex Market Saturday, August 9 • 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm FXDD is hosting an intensive seminar where they will discuss how to trade the forex market. Leading the seminar is Jeffrey Baskin, director of Client Education for FXDD, who will cover all aspects of forex trading including, basic terms of the market, technical analysis, money management, how to avoid the pitfalls of forex trading, and the psychological and emotional side of trading. BetterInvesting Presents: An Introduction to Fundamental Investing Friday, August 8 – Sunday, August 10 BetterInvesting is the leading national, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization whose membership consists of investment clubs and individual investors. Its mission is to provide a program of sound investment information education and support that helps create successful, lifetime investors. In this series of special topics classes, you will learn the BetterInvesting approach to stock analysis, including tools to identify quality growth stocks and to determine their fair prices. These classes will help you determine industry leaders, how you can evaluate them, and how to manage your portfolio for quality and long-term growth.