Thank you for Attending!

Thank you all for attending the 2011 Annual CSTA Conference, Volatility: Tools for the New Normal, in Toronto. We hope you all had a great time, while taking away some great ideas from the educational sessions and great speakers.

Handouts from the sessions are available to download below, beside each speaker. Take time to again look over our sponsors who showed their support.

We enjoyed seeing all of you, and are already looking forward to next year. The CSTA will be working hard to put together another wonderful programme.

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Speakers

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  • The Toronto Cycles: How time fractals can be used to build Predictive tools.

    Mukul Pal, CMT, MBA: Mukul Pal is a Co-Founder of Orpheus Capitals, a Chartered Market Technician, and an MBA graduate. He has more than a decade of Capital Market experience dealing with derivatives and global assets. Recently his paper on Time Fractals was accepted by the ERN History of Economics Journal and Capital Markets Market Microstructure Journal (SSRN Economics Research Network). Apart from being the co-chair of the MTA Central and Eastern European Chapter, Mukul has spoken at TED, conducted training programs for Thomson Reuters (Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Albania), Oil and Gas Forum Romania, Bombay Stock Exchange, SIBIU Derivatives Exchange, Bucharest Stock Exchange, Prague Stock Exchange and various other business schools and universities around the world.
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  • The Behavioural Finance of Trends and Volatility

    Paul Azzopardi: Paul Azzopardi trained and worked as a certified public accountant and then obtained an MBA from the University of British Columbia, now Sauder School of Business, concentrating in finance and investments. He then worked in the securities industry for the last twenty years in various roles but principally as a manager of private client accounts. In this role he invested in securities around the world on behalf of his private clients. He now concentrates on managing a private fund and on his lifelong passion of writing about investments and finance.




  • Multiple Time Frame Analysis using Cloud Charts: What does this tell us?

    David Linton: David Linton studied engineering at King's College, University of London in the United Kingdom and dealt in Traded Options on the London Stock Exchange. David also developed computer software for analysing price behaviour. In 1991, David founded Updata plc, based in London, where he is Chief Executive Officer. Professional traders and analysts now use Updata in over forty countries around the world. David is a well-known commentator on financial markets in the UK. He has appeared on BBC television, ITN News, Bloomberg and CNBC finance channels and has written for The Mail on Sunday, Shares Magazine and the Investors Chronicle.
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  • Volatility and Tactical Asset Management Strategies

    Richard Rhodes, MBA: Richard Rhodes is the founder of Rhodes Capital Management (2001) and co-founder of The CoffeeTree Fund LP (2007). He serves as investment strategist and portfolio manager for RCM clients and for The CoffeeTree Fund LP. From 1994 to 1999, he served as the Financial Director of the Moscow-based corporate consulting group Center for Business Skills Development. Thereafter, he served as on WorldCom's Strategic and Capital Planning teams, after which he went on to launch The Rhodes Report newsletter and Rhodes Capital Management, Inc. Richard graduated from the University of Houston with a B.A in Russian Studies, and holds an international M.B.A. from theThunderbird School of Global Management with an emphasis upon the Russian language, international finance and accounting.
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  • Integrating Technical Indicators and Cycles in your Trading: Forecasting and Trading with Cycles.

    Richard Mogey: Richard Mogey is a direct heir to the philosophy of Edward R. Dewey Who started the Foundation for Study of Cycles. He is Research Director, Exec. Director, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Economist for the Foundation (1988-97), Chief Voluntary Officer and Research Director for the Foundation (current), creator and co-author of two magazines for investors: Business and Investment & Cycles Projections, and Chief Economist of the Iris Financial Group in Portland, OR. He is a lecturer at: U. of VA, Temple U.'s Business Schools and The Russian Academy of Sciences, and holds a degree in Phil. and Classics, Magna cum Laude, from the U. of CA at Irvine.



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  • High Profit Candlestick Break-out Patterns

    Stephen Bigalow: Stephen Bigalow possesses over twenty-five years of investment experience, including eight years as a stockbroker with major Wall Street firms. This was followed by fifteen years of commodity trading, overlapped with twelve years of real estate investing. He holds a business and economics degree from Cornell University, and has lectured at Cornell and at many private educational investment functions over the past twenty years. His research, encompassing all fundamental and technical methods, resulted in verifying that Candlestick analysis was superior to any other method. In consulting with money management and energy trading firms, he has successfully combined conventional research methods with Candlestick analysis to greatly enhance investment returns.

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  • Predictive Technical Market Patterns: "Hockey Sticks"

    David Elliott: David Steelsmith Elliott has been a well-respected financial market professional and researcher for more than 30 years. Twice named #1 Market Timer by USIC, and voted to the Readers Choice List of Outstanding Seminars by Stocks & Commodities Magazine in 2006, he is renowned for his uncanny ability to forecast price movements in both stocks and indexes. David has developed many unique successful new proprietary strategies using long-standing technical indicators combined in such a way as to produce directional market signals independent of trend and applicable to all markets, all have had a significant influence on the way market technicals are viewed by industry professionals.

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  • The Lebovit Volume Reversal: Identifying and validating a particular type of Reversal Environment

    Mark Lebovit: Mark Lebovit is Chief Market Strategist for VRtrader.Com. His technical expertise is in overall market timing and stock selection based upon his proprietary VOLUME REVERSAL (tm) methodology and Annual Forecast Model. His Annual Forecast Model (available at VRtrader.com) has established increasing notoriety on Wall Street as a predictor of future market movement. Released each year in early February, it has accurately pinpointed market highs and lows. It's claim to fame began back in 1987 when it predicted the ominous stock market crash nine months in advance.



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  • Rule Based Trading with 100% Objectivity = PROFITS: Three Exact trading Strategies with Historical Validation

    Jake Bernstein: Jake Bernstein is an internationally recognized futures analyst, trader and author. He has written more than 41 books, numerous research studies and newsletters on futures trading, stock trading, trader psychology & economic forecasting. Mr. Bernstein is publisher of Jake Bernstein's Weekly Futures Trading Letter which has been in continuous weekly publication since 1972. He began trading futures and stocks in 1968. Jake has appeared frequently on radio and television throughout the United States and Canada. He has been a guest on numerous business radio and television shows including Wall Street Week, CNBC, JagFN.TV and WebTV.com.
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  • Timing the Market using Technical, Seasonal, & Fundamental Analysis

    Don Vialoux, CMT: Donald Vialoux is the past President and current Director of the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts (CSTA) and has 37 years of experience in the investment industry. He possesses a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation earned based on his thesis "Seasonality in Canadian Equity Prices". Donald has provided technical analysis services for RBC Investments and is the author of a daily letter on equity markets available free on the internet: www.timingthemarket.ca which receives an average of 200,000 hits per day from 130 countries. He also writes a weekly column each Saturday in the Financial Post that combines technical, fundamental and seasonality analysis and is a frequent presenter on Business News Network Television.
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  • Trend Analysis, volatility Analysis, and Provisional Calculations of Target share prices.

    Hiroshi Okamoto: Hiroshi Okamoto graduated from Konan University with a major in economics in March 1960. He practiced stock prices analysis for 51 years since 1960. After working for Nomura Research Institute as a chief researcher and for Nomura Investment Management as Director and General Investment Manager, he is currently President of Okamoto Office, Vice Chairman of Tokyo Stock Exchange Pen Club, a member of the Socio-fundamental Analysis study group in The Japan Association of Business Cycle studies. Hiroshi is also a member of the NTAA, the TSAASF, the CSTA, and the MTA (honorary member).


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  • The "Old Normal" is Working just Fine: How many Times does the Market Discount Negative News?

    Ralph Acampora, CMT: Ralph Acampora is a pioneer in the development of market analytics and has a global reputation as a market historian and a technical analyst, providing unique insights on market timing and related investment strategy issues. Ralph Acampora is one of Wall Street's most respected technical analysts and has been consistently ranked by Institutional Investor for more than ten years. With 40 years of experience, Mr. Acampora has been instrumental in the development of modern-day technical analysis. He co-founded the Market Technicians Association (MTA) in 1970, is a past president of that group and continues to be an active member of the society. Mr. Acampora continues to participate in the education of technical analysts, serving as teacher and lecturer for the New York Institute of Finance (NYIF) & the Security Industry Association's annual Wharton seminars.
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  • Inter-Market Trend Spotting: Evolving Inter-Market Trends in Equity, Swaps, Currency & Commodity Markets

    Jonathan Lin, CMT, CFA: Jonathan Lin, CMT, CFA is an Application Specialist at Bloomberg L.P., focusing on technical analysis. Before joining Bloomberg, Jonathan spent five years at Louise Yamada Technical Research Advisors, LLC as its Chief Global Strategist. Over the years, his media appearances included Fox News, CNBC, Canadian BNN, Phoenix TV (Hong Kong) and Economic Times Now (India). Jonathan received a B.E. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology and a MBA from Pace University.



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  • Trading the Shapes of Cycles: Hurst and Beyond

    David Hickson: David Hickson started trading financial markets in his twenties, and quickly learnt that success comes only to those who have an understanding of how the markets work. His quest to this end was finally rewarded when after many years of research and inconsistent trading he discovered JM Hurst's Cyclic Theory. David started to develop a software application to help mechanise the largely manual processes taught by Hurst, a personal project which developed after several years into the Sentient Trader – Hurst Trading System software application.