Jack Schwager is a recognized industry expert in futures and hedge funds and the author of a number of widely acclaimed financial books. He is currently the co-portfolio manager for the ADM Investor Services Diversified Strategies Fund, a portfolio of futures and FX managed accounts.
Previously, Mr. Schwager was a partner in the Fortune Group, a London- based hedge fund advisory firm, which specialized in creating customized hedge fund portfolios for institutional clients. His prior experience includes 22 years as Director of Futures research for some of Wall Street’s leading firms and 10 years as the co-principal of a CTA.
Mr. Schwager has written extensively on the futures industry and great traders in all financial markets. He is perhaps best known for his best- selling series of interviews with the greatest hedge fund managers of the last two decades: Market Wizards (1989), The New Market Wizards (1992), and Stock Market Wizards (2001). The latest book in the series, Hedge Fund Market Wizards is due to be released in May 2012. Mr Schwager’s first book, A Complete Guide to the Futures Markets (1984) is considered to be one of the classic reference works in the field. He later revised and expanded this original work into the three-volume series, Schwager on Futures, consisting of Fundamental Analysis (1995), Technical Analysis (1996), and Managed Trading (1996). He is also the author of Getting Started in Technical Analysis (1999), part of John Wiley’s popular Getting Started series.
Mr. Schwager is a frequent seminar speaker and has lectured on a range of analytical topics including the characteristics of great traders, investment fallacies, hedge fund portfolios, managed accounts, technical analysis, and trading system evaluation. He holds a BA in Economics from Brooklyn College (1970) and an MA in Economics from Brown University (1971).
Jack Schwager
Market Wizard Lessons Part 2
What are the common denominators of success among the Market Wizards? What traits do they share that differentiate them for most other traders? In this presentation, Jack Schwager continues his discussion of the key trading lessons he learned in interviewing some of the world’s best traders. A sampling of a few of the topics include:
1. The lessons of failure in trading 2. Emotions and trading
3. Multiple perspectives on risk control
4. The downside of volatility—what investors overlook Market Wizard Lessons Part 1.
What are the common denominators of success among the Market Wizards? What traits do they share that differentiate them for most other traders? In this presentation, Jack Schwager details the key trading lessons he learned in interviewing some of the world’s best traders. A sampling of a few of the topics include:
1. Can the markets be beat?
2. What is and is not important to trading success?
3. Does successful trading involve hard word or should it be effortless?
4. Explaining the paradox in how people view trading
TRADING LESSONS OF
THE MARKET WIZARDS
PART I
Market Wizard Lessons Part 3
What are the common denominators of success among the Market Wizards? What traits do they share that differentiate them for most other traders? In this presentation, Jack Schwager concludes his presentation of the key trading lessons he learned in interviewing some of the world’s best traders. A sampling of a few of the topics include:
1. The four types of trades
2. Why implementation is as important as the trade idea 3. How to use correlation in trading
4. The importance of varying the bet size 5. Static versus dynamic trading
PART II
FUNDSEEDER: CONNECTING UNDISCOVERED TRADERS WITH INVESTORS
FundSeeder es un broker agnóstico, una empresa de tecnología financiera pionera en la revolución del trading. Han creado esta plataforma como un foro donde los traders pueden demostrar sus estrategias y habilidades, competir entre sí, y conectar con los inversionistas que deseen descubrir el talento del trading en los jóvenes.
FundSeeder es el primer motor de búsqueda del mundo para el talento de trading sin descubrir.
Proporcionan una oportunidad para que los traders sean descubiertos y financiados por inversionistas que, a su vez, reciben un beneficio adicional al ser los primeros en colocarlos, ya sea que se trate de una participación en la economía de tasas al alza, un descuento en las tarifas o la capacidad. Su objetivo es participar de los millones de dólares que la industria de hedge funds maneja; el lanzamiento de nuevo talento hacia empresas de éxito en el área de trading y ofrecer a los inversionistas la oportunidad de participar “de primera mano” en la economía, que ha sido tradicionalmente disponible sólo para las firmas de Wall Street ya establecidas.
SESIÓN SCHEDULE TOPICS VENUE June 18 10:00 am - 2:30 pm
Trading lessons of the marketwizards
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FUNDSEEDER: Connecting undiscovered traders withinvestors
Hotel Westin Santa Fe
June 19 9:00 am - 1:30 pm
Investment misconceptionsHotel JW Marriott Santa Fe
Investment Misconceptions Part 1 a. Expert Advice
b. The Deficient Market Hypothesis c. The Tyranny of Past Returns d. The Mismeasurement of Risk
Investment Misconceptions Part 2 a. Volatility Is Not Just about Risk b. Diversification Misconceptions
c. The Confusion between Leverage and Risk d. Correlation Misconceptions
e. Risk-Related Fallacies
Practical Guide to Performance Measurement and Risk Management a. Return and Risk
b. Visual Performance Evaluation c. Performance Evaluation Pitfalls d. Performance Measurement
INVESTMENT
MISCONCEPTIONS
PART III
R EQ U I R E M E N T S
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