MarketWise Asia: Level up your trading skills today
On the 10th and 11th of July, MarketWise Asia and IG Asia will jointly organize a virtual summit to help retail investors and traders get actionable ideas to position their portfolios for maximum profits.
This event will see major financial experts such as Michael Covel, Tom Basso, Boris Schlossberg, and Collin Seow, just to name a few, showcase their investing and trading strategies to navigate the current market conditions using a wide array of investment tools such as stocks, bonds, ETFs, options, futures, forex and more.
One will be able to watch live market analysis dished out by these experienced traders and hear their expert opinions on the best course of action and financial tools needed to capitalize on the current market opportunity.
For example, Mr. Collin Seow, the founder of The Systematic Trader and whose course is voted as the Best Investing Course by Seedly Review, will be touching on strategies to profit from the commodities supercycle, a topic that is very relevant in today’s context where inflationary fears are running high.
This virtual event is jointly brought to you by MarketWise Asia and IG Asia, totally FREE OF CHARGE.
For those who are interested, click on the button below to register for the event.
I will be providing a brief background on the 4 keynote speakers of the event and what interest me the most about them!
MarketWise Asia Keynote Speakers
Michael Covel
Michael Covel is pretty well-known in the world of trend trading and has written multiple books on trend following as a trading strategy. I personally have been a fan of his and bought one of his earlier books “Trend Following” which is a best-selling classic that has seen multiple updated editions.
Michael Covel has his own website, trendfollowing.com and in his website, Michael Covel showcases the outstanding performance of the trend following strategy, using data from Dunn Capital. From October 1974 through April 2021, a trend following strategy as engaged by Dunn Capital would have generated an annualized return of 16.3% vs. the S&P 500 total return of 12.6% during the same period.
While historical performances are never representative of future returns, the trend following strategy is nonetheless one of the most widely followed trading strategies out there, one that has withstood the test of time during multiple market drawdowns.
This strategy can be simplified using the chart above. Trend Following, in all honesty, is no rocket science. However, the psychological barrier to “let your profit run and cut your losses short” is what prevents most retail traders to be profitable in the long run and make full-time trading their career.
Michael Covel is also the voice behind Trend Following TM Radio. His podcast is the underground alternative hit that has ranked as high as #2 on iTunes investing channel (with 10m+ listeners and counting).
In his podcast, Micheal Covel frequently interviews various subject matter experts, not necessarily just on the topic of trading. For example, one of his latest episodes featured Tim Grover who is one of the world’s most sought-after mindset experts who boast clients such as Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.
There are various other resources available on his website such as White papers and research processes which will be music to the ears of hardcore followers who subscribe to his Trend Following strategy.
During the virtual meeting, Michael Covel will be enlightening both beginners and seasoned pros on how to generate profits with straightforward and repeatable rules.
He will also be doing a fireside chat on 10 July (Sat) at 2.30 pm with Tom Basso who is also one of the keynote speakers in the event.
Last but not least, some lucky participants of the events will also be entitled to Michael Covel’s latest book, Trend Following Mindset, autographed by the man himself. This is a book that brings to life the timeless conversations between Tom Basso (the next featured keynote speaker of the event) and Michael Covel, originally featured on Michael’s renowned podcast.
Tom Basso
Tom Basso, as mentioned earlier, is also one of the keynote speakers of the event. This gentleman was once the CEO of Trendstat Capital Management, a fund management company that at its peak, helped managed $600m for clients worldwide.
Tom was one of the traders featured in The New Market Wizards, a book on successful traders written by Jack Schwager, and his own book, Successful Traders Size Their Positions – Why and How? has been a hit with traders worldwide attempting to manage their position sizes, one of the most important steps needed to ensure long-term trading success.
Tom also has his own website enjoytheride.world where he shares with traders all over the world useful resources that will assist them to “one-up” on their trading journey.
There is also a segment on his website which talks about hedging: his view on hedging and how he personally does it. Our thought process on hedging is similar.
“Hedging is not designed to increase my returns. It is meant to preserve the value of my portfolios”.
Tom has been retired since 2003, hence capital preservation is of the utmost importance to him and with a proper hedging strategy in place to protect a portion of his portfolio, he has peace of mind knowing that he has less risk than the general market.
For those who are interested, you can check out his hedging strategy using Keltner Bands.
As highlighted earlier, Tom will be doing a fireside chat with Michael Covel on 10 July (Sat) at 2.30 pm where they will be covering topics such as:
- How to get started in trading
- What trend following is all about and what makes it TICK
- How to position size your trading portfolio
- What is the life of a full-time trader like and much more,
In my opinion, these are all very relevant topics that will interest both new and seasoned traders.
Boris Schlossberg
Mr. Boris Schlossberg is managing director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management and Co-Founder of BKForex.com. He is widely known as a leading foreign exchange expert with more than three decades of financial market experience.
Since 2012, Boris has focused exclusively on running BKForex.com where he generates trade ideas and designs algorithms for the FX market in partnership with Ms. Kathy Lien, another well-known authoritative in the forex trading world.
For those who are interested in FX trading, it pays to hear more from Boris and how one can trade FX with an edge.
Again, in all honesty, trading FX is something that I have not been able to achieve much success over the years and I will definitely be interested to find out more about how one can become a successful FX trader from Boris.
Collin Seow
The 4th keynote speaker for the event will be Mr. Collin Seow, who is featured in the book Secret of Highly Profitable Trader which went on to become a consecutive 24-week Best-Seller on The Straits Times Best-Seller list.
Some might know Collin as the inventor of the stock trading software known as TradersGPS trading system that is exclusively accessed through The Systematic Trader Course. This is a trend trading course that uses the TradersGPS software to easily identify stocks to buy into during the formation stages of a potential trend.
I have written a review on The Systematic Trader Course and have also used its TradersGPS software on multiple occasions to highlight how easy it is to spot a potential trending stock.
For example, one of the stocks that Collin highlighted to his students back in late May was Ford Motors (ticker: F) which was looking to break its all-time high level at around $13.60/share. The TradersGPS system identified a positive BUY entry with F gaining momentum and since then, the counter has generated returns of c.13% over the course of about 1 month.
During the MarketWise Asia event on 10-11 July, Collin will be sharing with the audience his outlook on the current commodity market. Are we in the early innings of a commodities supercycle or is the recent strong performance seen in this asset class just a bubble waiting to be popped soon?
Join him as he looks at these developing long-term trends and also discusses the fundamentals behind the supply and demand of commodities.
Conclusion
This is a FREE event that all budding and wannabe traders and investors should not miss. Do you have what it takes to become a full-time trader like many of these financial experts? Are you ready to learn a new skill in 2021 that could potentially change the course of your life?
Sign up for the event below.
This event is jointly organized by MarketWise Asia and IG Asia. IG Asia is Singapore and the world’s No.1 choice for CFD trading. One can deal on over 17,000 markets with more 24-hour CFDs on indices than any provider and out-of-hours CFDs on US shares you won’t find elsewhere.
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