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Welcome
Welcome to the 33rd IFTA Conference!
2020 is one of the most exciting and eventful years inrecent history. Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity andAmbiguity (VUCA) became the new normal. What we had
previously taken for granted became impossible and what
had previously seemed impossible became self-evident. A
true crisis-opportunity.
In life and markets change is constant, everything that was
and is familiar to us up to now has been shaken up. Thisapplies in particular to the way we come together. The last
32 years of IFTA conferences have always been local, in
one country, hosted by one of our member societies. This
year, the IFTA Conference is hosted by the Association ofTechnical Analysts in Germany (VTAD) - yet it does not takeplace in Germany. It will be worldwide, hosted in a digitalvirtual space.

Wieland Arlt, CFTe
President
Conference Director

This conference is special not only because of this reason, but also because IFTA opens its
doors to likeminded professionals. Traders, investors, if you trade privately or professionally,or just want to see how to manage your assets - the 33rd IFTA Conference offers somethingfor everyone.
Leading by example, our keynote speakers Linda Raschke, Larry Williams, John Bollinger
and Dr. Van K. Tharp, are the most well-known personalities who have been dealing with
one and the same topic for decades - professional trading.

5At the same time, however, we will also let the experts from the various member societies
share their voice. Experts from all parts of the world are waiting for you with their respective
strategies, analysis and ideas.
We also offer a broad thematic selection. In addition to the charting technical analysisof selected assets and a critical outlook for the coming months, our experts also present
numerous proven strategies and discuss the most important cross assets, notably Stocks,
Commodities, Cryptos and Forex.
Another important topic featured will be Trading Psychology. As trading becomes more
and more demanding this side of the equation needs to be covered as well.
…and the grand finale!
Back to digitalization again. Just as digitalization has found its way into all our lives, as
this online conference demonstrates, it has already changed the world of finance. Where
technical analysis used to be practiced with a ruler and pencil, artificial intelligence now
takes over trading decisions.
In order to get a concrete perspective and to learn how trading has changed over the
decades and will continue to do so, we will discuss with Larry Williams, Linda Raschke, Raul
Glavan and Adrian Koemel in our panel discussion.
Dear visitor, I cordially invite you to participate in our conference - and also to become apart of our community in IFTA.
Sincerely,
Wieland Arlt, CFTe

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Acknowledgements
The IFTA 33rd Annual Conference kindly acknowledges the generous support from thefollowing companies:

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General Information
Venue

Contact Details

Online Conference

Wieland Arlt, CFTe
President
Conference Director(VTAD)
wieland.arlt@ifta.org

Date
October 24th, 2020
Host
Vereinigung technischer Analysten
Deutschlands e.V. (VTAD)
www.vtad.de

IFTA Committee Members
Wieland Arlt, CFTe (VTAD) - President and Conference Director
Karin Roller, CFTe (VTAD)
Ron William, MSTA, CFTe, CMT (SAMT)Social Media Marketing:
Stephanie Eismann, CFTe (VTAD)

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What is IFTA
The International Federation of Technical Analysts was incorporated in 1986 and is a globalorganization of market analysis societies and associations. IFTA is an international nonprofit organization with member societies in 23 countries. The International Federation ofTechnical Analysts offers certification to technical analysts around the world.

ATAA - Australian Technical Analysts Association
CSTA - Canadian Society of Technical Analysts
ESTA - The Egyptian Society of Technical Analysts
AFATE - Association Francaise des Analystes Techniques
VTAD - Vereinigung Technischer Analysten Deutschlands e.V.
FTAA - Financial Technical Analysts Association, Hong Kong
ATA - The Association of Technical Analysts, India
AATI - Asosiasi Analis Teknikal Indonesia
SIAT - Societa Italiana di Analisi Technica
NTAA - Nippon Technical Analysts Association
LSTAA - Lebanese Society of Technical Analysts
MATA - Malaysian Association of Technical Analysts
STANZ - Society of Technical Analysts of New Zealand
TASN - Technical Analysts Society, Nigeria
STAF - Scandinavian Technical Analysts
TASS - Technical Analysts Society Singapore
TASSA - Technical Analysts’ Society of Southern Africa
IEATEC - Instituto Español de Analistas Tecnicos y Cuantitativos
SAMT - Swiss Association of Market Technicians
STA - Society of Technical Analysts Ltd., Great Britain
TSAASF - Technical Securities Analysts Association of San Francisco
AAPTA - American Association of Professional Technical Analysts

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IFTA Details
IFTA Board of Directors
President
Wieland Arlt, CFTe

Director
Dr. Gregor Bauer

Vice President, Europe
Clive Lambert, MSTA

Director
Jeanette Young

Vice President, Middle East and Africa
Tamer Gamal, CFTe, CETA
Vice President, Vice President Asia-Pacific
Hiwon Yoon, Ph.D
Education Director
Saleh Nasser
Treasurer and Website Director
Karin Roller, CFTe
Marketing Director
Thomas Hicks, MSTA
Development Director
Ron William, MSTA, CMTMembership Director
Alek Jankowski, BE, M.Eng.Sc.
Director
Mohamed El Saiid, CFTe, MFTA

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Director
Yukitoshi Higashino
Director
Francesco Caruso, MFTA
Director
Nik Mohd Ihsan Bin Raja Abdullah, MSTA, CFTe
Director
Giovanni Trombetta, CFTA, Electronic Engineer
Director
Tomoya Suzuki, Ph.D., CMTA, CFTe, MFTA

IFTA HEADQUARTERS
The International Federation of Technical Analysts Inc.

1300 Piccard Drive, Suite LL 14
Rockville, MD 20850 USA
Tel: +1 240 404 6508
Fax: +1 301 990 9771

Schedule
ASIAN AND AUSTRALIAN SESSION
AEDT

CEST

EDT

10:00 AM

1:00 AM

7:00 PM Conference Opening Ceremony by Mohamed El Saiid and Wieland Arlt

10:05 AM

1:05 AM

7:05 PM

Daryl Guppy

Trade what you see, not what you believe

10:55 AM

1:55 AM

7:55 PM

Yoan Zhang

Sequence of volume spread analysis: A bar
counting method of potential reversal

11:45 AM

2:45 AM

8:45 PM

Mathew Verdouw

Using Volatility to Determine the Trend of
Securities and Markets.

12:35 PM

3:35 AM

9:35 PMDr. Hiwoon Yoon

Shall we focus on Bitcoin in an Uncertain andUnstable World Environment ?

1:25 PM

4:25 AM

10:25 PM Dr. Kei Nakagawa

How to Build Investment Strategies with AI and
Machine Learning?

2:15 PM

5:15 AM

11:15 PMTime-series analysis of Japanese mutual fundperformance: Considerations on asset flow andreturn3:10 PM

6:10 AM

12:10 AM Dr. Bruce Vanstone

Momentum Investment using ETFs

4:05 PM

7:05 AM

1:05 AMHow to profit $30,000 from Gold trading withSun Capricorn Cycle and 1.618 Divergence
Fibonacci

5:00 PM

8:00 AM

2:00 AM Power Hour by AATI

Koki Nozawa

Gema Goyeardi

Smart trading with technical analysis

Muhammad Alfatih, CTA, CFTe; Soeratman Doerachman, CTA; Linda
Lee, CFTe; Hendra Martono Liem, CTA; Angelo Michel, CTA & Aria
Santoso, CTA, CFTe; Indrawijaya Rangkuti, CTA

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Schedule
EUROPEAN SESSION
AEDT

CEST

6:00 PM

9:00 AM

3:00 AM Opening Ceremony of the European Session by
Mohamed El Saiid and Wieland Arlt

6:05 PM

9:05 AM

3:05 AM Dr. Gregor Bauer

7:00 PM

10:00 AM 4:00 AM Murray Gunn

The Supercycle Top and Deflation

7:55 PM

10:55 AM

4:55 AM Thierry Bechu

The end of alpha: Risk Factors Theory revisited

8:50 PM

11:50 AM

5:50 AM Stefano Gianti

Spot market trends with Heikin Ashi

9:40 PM

12:40 PM

6:40 AM Roland Jegen

Better investing using market effects

10:30 PM

1:10 PM

7:10 AM

Building a money printing machine with AI

11:05 PM

2:05 PM

8:05 AM Jean-Francois
Owczarczak

The Power of Cross Asset confirmations

12:00 AM

3:00 PM

9:00 AM Linda Raschke

A Treasury of Wall Street Wisdom: The Wisdomof past Master Market Technicians applied to
the future.

1:00 AM

4:00 PM

10:00 AM Panel discussion

The Evolution of Trading - From Pen and Paper
to Artificial Intelligence

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EDT

Raul Glavanwith Linda Raschke,
Larry Williams, Raul
Glavan, Adrian Kömel- Moderators Ron
William and Wieland
Arlt

Successfully trading Options in volatile markets

Schedule
AMERICAN SESSION
AEDT

CEST

EDT

2:00 AM

5:00 PM

11:00 AM

Opening Ceremony of the American Session by
Mohamed El Saiid and Wieland Arlt

2:05 AM

5:05 PM

11:05 AM

Larry Williams

What makes for World Champion Traders?

3:05 AM

6:05 PM

12:05 PMIFTA Award Ceremony
to Welles Wilder

presented by Saleh Nasser and Wieland Arlt

3:20 AM

6:20 PM

12:20 PM

Roman Bogomazov

Incorporating Wyckoff Method Analysis into
Portfolio Construction

4:15 AM

7:15 PM

1:15 PM

Rüdiger Born

Elliott Waves: Bringing the Theory into the
Daily Trading

5:05 AM

8:05 PM

2:05 PMTim McCollough

Back-Testing Relative Performance andEvaluating Technical versus Macroeconomic
and Corporate Research

5:55 AM

8:55 PM

2:55 PM

Wieland Arlt

How to catch the big swings with one simple
strategy

6:50 AM

9:50 PM

3:50 PM

Dr. Van K. Tharp

System Thinking: The Holy Grail to dealing witha Pandemic or any other crisis

7:50 AM 10:50 PM

4:50 PMRon William

Do markets face a “Minsky moment” collapse?
Optimal strategies for the crisis-opportunities
ahead

8:45 AM

11:45 PM

5:45 PMJohn Bollinger

Active versus Passive Indexing

9:45 AM

12:45 AM

6:45 PM

Conference Closing Ceremony by Mohamed El Saiid and Wieland Arlt

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The Evolution of Trading - From Pen and Paper to
Artificial Intelligence
Panel discussion with Linda Raschke, Larry Williams,
Raul Glavan, Adrian Kömel

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IFTA 2020
Conference Speakers
IFTA 2020
ONLINE CONFERENCE

Wieland Arlt, CFTe • Dr. Gregor Bauer • Roman Bogomazov • John Bollinger, CFA, CMT • Daryl Guppy •Roland Jegen • Dr. Kei Nakagawa, CMTA • Koki Nozawa, MFTA • Jean-François Owczarczak • Mohamed El Saiid• Dr. Van K. Tharp • Dr. Bruce Vanstone • Larry Williams • Ron William • Dr. Hiwon Yoon • Adrian Kömel •Mathew Verdouw • Murray Gunn • Rüdiger Born • Stefano Gianti • Thierry Béchu • Tim McCullough • Yoan Zhang• Linda Raschke • Gema Goeyardi • Raul Andreas Glavan • Angelo Michel • Aria Santoso • Hendra Martono Liem •Indrawijaya Rangkuti • Linda Lee • Muhammad Alfatih • Soeratman Doerachman

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Wieland Arlt
Wieland Arlt is a trader, trading coach and trainer. He is author of the bestselling books “Riskand Money Management – Simplified (German)”, “Risk and Money Management for Day
and Swing Trading (English)“ and “55 Reasons to become a Trader (German)” as well as ofnumerous articles in leading financial magazines. For years he is a sought-after speaker andexpert at trader fairs.
As a trader, coach and trainer, it is important to him to convey trading approaches that areeasy to understand and therefore also easy to implement.
His declared goal in trader coaching and training is to support traders in achieving theirfinancial goals in a self-determined way and to trade successfully on the financial markets
in the long term.
Wieland Arlt holds a degree in economics and is member on the board of directors of the
IFTA and as well of the Vereinigung Technischer Analysten Deutschlands www.vtad.de.

Dr. Gregor Bauer
Dr. Gregor Bauer has been working intensively on the capital markets foraround 20 years and works as an independent portfolio manager for privateclients in Wiesbaden. He has written two books on “Technical Analysis
and Trading”, regularly publishes articles in various well-known financial
publications, holds seminars and workshops on “Technical Analysis” and isa frequent speaker and interview guest at investor shows and on TV. He isparticularly interested in candle chart technology and behavioral finance.

Roman Bogomazov
Roman Bogomazov is a trader and educator on the Wyckoff Method of trading andinvesting. He is an Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University in San Francisco,where he has taught the Wyckoff Method together with the late Dr. Henry (“Hank”)
Pruden and Bruce Fraser. He is also President of Wyckoff Associates, LLC, anenterprise providing online Wyckoff Method education to traders throughout the world(www.wyckoffanalytics.com).
Using WyckoffAnalytics.com as a thriving trading community platform, Roman has
developed a comprehensive educational curriculum covering basic to advanced
Wyckoff concepts and techniques, as well as visual pattern recognition and real-time
drills to enhance traders’ skills and confidence. A dedicated and passionate Wyckoffian,he has used the Wyckoff Method exclusively for his own trading for the last 20 years.
Roman has also served as a Board Member of the International Federation of TechnicalAnalysts and as past president of the Technical Securities Analysts Association of San
Francisco.

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John Bollinger
John Bollinger is the president and founder of Bollinger Capital Management.
He personally governs all investment decisions for Bollinger CapitalManagement clients.
John Bollinger is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Chartered Market
Technician (CMT). He is known to the public for his many years of market
analysis and commentary on television — first on Financial News Network,where he was the Chief Market Analyst — and subsequently on CNBC.
John Bollinger is also well known to professional investors. An avid researcher,he has developed a number of widely used investment tools and analyticaltechniques.

Daryl Guppy
Daryl Guppy has provided trading and investment analysis of financial markets for more than
25 years. His immensely popular 1996 book SHARE TRADING laid the groundwork for technicaltrading in Australia. He only trades his own capital. He has a well-established public record ofsuccessful trade calls for trading local and global equity, commodity and FX markets. He has
unique experience in trading both Western and mainland Chinese markets. He is recognised
as an international investment expert. Guppy has nine books published internationally by John
Wiley. His new book is due for publication in late 2020.
He has developed several technical indicators which are included in industry standard
software such as DZH International, Metastock and Omnitrader as well as many other charting
programs. He developed the ANTSSYS trading indicators for commodity, index and currency
markets. Globally many traders use the technical indicators developed by Guppy to tradeequities and other markets. For 20 years Guppy has been a regular host anchor on CNBC
Asia Squawkbox where he is known as “The Chartman”. Daryl is a regular contributor andcolumnist for financial magazines and media in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Australia and theUS. His weekly analysis and trading newsletter has been in continuous publication for 25 years.

Roland Jegen
Roland Jegen is active in the financial markets for over 15 years. Since
the beginning of 2016 he is working as a trading expert at WH SelfInvest.
In addition to classical technical analysis, his favourite interests include
Auction Market Theory and Volume/ Market Profile as well as automatedtrading systems.

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Dr. Kei Nakagawa
Dr. Nakagawa is a quantitative analyst in Innovation Lab at Nomura Asset Management Co Ltd. from 2018.
He engages in the R&D of cutting-edge technologies such as AI, machine learning, and FinTech and theirapplication to the asset management business.
He received a B.A., in Economics from Kyoto University in 2012, an MBA from the University of Tsukuba in
2015, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration in 2020 from the University of Tsukuba.
From 2012, He was a risk manager and quantitative investment strategy fund manager.
He managed quantitative funds investing in Japanese Long-Short Equity, Global Equity, and REIT. He
developed a lot of quantitative equity and multi-asset allocation models.
Not only does he have work experience as a quant, but he also has many academic presentations andpapers on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and financial engineering including top-tier AI academic conferences.
His research interest lies in improving the method of finance by machine learning and, on the contrary, developing machine learning by
the method of finance.
He teaches at Tokyo Institute of Technology, the University of Tsukuba, and Waseda University.

Koki Nozawa
Koki Nozawa, MFTA, is a fund analyst with Institute of Asset Management Research at
Nikko Research Center, Inc. Nikko Research Center, Inc is a leading research firm thatassists investment companies, institutional investors and securities firms in their investment
product, marketing, distribution, customer retention and business development efforts.
He offers portfolio analysis, development of NBA* investment trust/stock models, research
and analysis of investment trusts and hedge funds, and other tools to provide informationand consulting services on asset management to a wide range of investors, including
financial institutions, educational institutions and other public-interest corporations andnon-listed companies. He also offers financial institutions consulting services from an AssetLiability Management (ALM) perspective to ensure efficient investment risk management.
(*) NBA: Nikko Bond Analysis is a system offered by SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. to primarily
financial institutions and other corporate investors for managing and analyzing financial
products.

Jean-François Owczarczak
Jean-François Owczarczak is the CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Management Joint
Trust SA, a company founded in 1969 in Geneva Switzerland, which provides institutional
market advisory services based on proprietary algorithms. The methodology uses Timing
oscillators, Trend analysis and Price Targets calculations to monitor risk/reward and cyclicity
as well as project likely market scenarios over time frames ranging from longer term charts tointrahour. Coverage includes circa 5’000 instruments over all asset classes (stocks, indexes,
ETFs, commodities, bond indexes and interest rates).

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Jean-François started his career in investment banking in 1998 (Paribas, then Deutsche
Bank in London), joined MJT in 2003, was awarded the International Federation of TechnicalAnalysts’ Bronwen Wood Memorial Award in 2013 (for the best CFTe certification diploma
paper in the world during 2012) and also holds the FRM Financial Risk Manager certificationdelivered by US GARP. MJT’s research products and platforms were nominated 13 times
since 2015 as Finalist in various categories of “the technical analyst awards”, and The Capital
Observer (a joint-venture monthly cross assets research publication co-edited with a
Diapason Currencies & Commodities, a London based macro research firm) won the “BestSpecialist Research” category in 2018.

Mohamed El Saiid
Mohamed is currently an Executive Director and Head of the Technical Analysis
department for HC Brokerage (HCB), Cairo, Egypt. He started his career working
for Momentum Wavers, Ltd., a Middle East Technical Analysis firm (2001-2004).
He joined HCB as an associate/lead technical analyst (2004-2006). Later hejoined Unifund, a Geneva-based global private fund (2006-2007) as a Chief
Technical Strategist/Co-Fund Manager to the Middle East investments.
Mohamed holds an MBA in Finance and is currently the Chairman of the Egyptian
Society for Technical Analysts (ESTA), as well as an Education Sub-Committee
Member in IFTA. Mohamed authored several TA-related articles and developed
several indicators including the Volatility-Based Envelopes (VBE), the Implied
Volatility Projection Range (IVPR) and Relative Performance Candlestick Charts(RPCC)

Dr. Van K. Tharp
Dr. Tharp offers unique learning strategies, and his techniques for producing great
traders are some of the most effective in the field.
Over the years, Dr. Tharp has helped people overcome problems in areas of systemdevelopment and trading psychology, and success related issues such as self-sabotage.
He is the founder and president of the Van Tharp Institute, dedicated to offering highquality educational products and services for traders and investors around the globe.
While Dr. Tharp’s expertise is in the area of finance, his mission is to touch people in a
way that changes them for the better. In his books, courses, and workshops, he uses thefinancial metaphor to do so.

Dr. Bruce Vanstone
Dr Bruce Vanstone completed his PhD at Bond University in Computational Financein 2006. He focuses on researching and developing active investment and trading
strategies, both with and without the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques. He
publishes his academic work on investing and trading in Australian and International
journals and conferences.
He currently lectures in Computational Finance (Algorithmic Trading and Trading
Systems Design) and Big Data at Bond University, and is a consultant to a number ofboutique hedge funds. He runs courses on Systems Trading (in conjunction with the
ATAA) and works with private traders to enhance their performance and returns. You
can read more about Bruce at http://www.vanstonetrading.com/

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Larry Williams
Through good years and bad Larry has survived recording and teaching
his market wisdom.
Larry is a best selling author featured on Amazon. You can find most of
the books Larry has written there.
Larry Williams has taught thousands to trade the markets, and has
been the only futures trader in the world to repeatedly trade $1 millionof his own money live at seminars around the globe.

Ron William
Ron William, CMT, MSTA, is an accomplished market strategist, educator and trader, with 17-yearsof financial industry experience, working for leading economic research and institutional firms;
producing macro research and trading strategies. He specializes in macro, semi-discretionary
analysis, driven by cycles and proprietary timing models.
Ron also serves as an active trading mentor specializing in trading psychology, using the NLP
model & Van Tharp Peak Performance™. Previously, Ron was a senior Tactical & Market Timing
Strategist at the ECU Group, a Global Macro Investment & Advisory Firm. He was part of theMulti-Asset Research & Advisory Team, headed by Robin Griffiths, applying his signature“Roadmap” cycle model.
Ron’s work, as part of his current institutional market advisory firm (RWA), acquired global
industry recognition with the 2014 / 2013 Finalist Award for “Best Independent Research House
for FX” and 2012 Finalist Award for “Best Technical Analyst of the year”. His market insights
are featured regularly across notable industry publications and financial media programs; mostrecently featuring US Presidential Election Cycle analysis, GBP/USD Brexit impact & EUR/USD
Parity risk.

Dr. Hiwon Yoon
Mr. Yoon has a Ph.D in mechanical engineering from Keio University in Japan. In 1989,
he received his M.S. in hydro-dynamics from Keio University in Japan. Since 2007, hehas been president of CMD Laboratory Inc. He manages the firm and creates models
for financial markets. From 2000 to 2007, he was a director of CMD Research Ltd.,
where he managed the firm and analyzed financial markets. From 1996 to 1998,
he was a trader of Japanese stock for Salomon Smith Barney (Japan), where hetraded a portfolio of Japanese stock and derivatives. From 1993 to 1996, he worked
in sales of Asian stocks for Salomon Brothers Asia Ltd (Japan), marketing Asian
products, such as stocks and derivatives. From 1992 to 1993, Mr. Yoon was a traderof Asian stocks for Salomon Brothers Hong Kong Ltd (Hong Kong). In this position,
he managed arbitrage positions for Asian stocks and derivatives. From 1989 to 1991,
he was a trader of Japanese stock for Salomon Brothers Asia Ltd (Japan), where hetraded Japanese stock and derivatives. His subject area are Technical analysis of the
Bitcoin, AI and FinTech and Algorithmic trading.

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Adrian Kömel
Adrian Kömel studied business mathematics and successfully completed it as one of
the top students. He got into trading through an internship and got to know his trading
partner Tobias Bärlin with whom he has been working and trading since then and built thewebsite www.suricate-trading.de. Tobias has been trading for around 15 years now, Adrian
has been trading full-time for around 7 years. First they dealt with statistical approaches
and evaluated the markets using simulation programs and looked at what works andwhat doesn’t. Through the World Trading Championship you have become aware of otherapproaches and have analyzed what the best in the world trade and how they do it. So
they got to know the CoT data and developed their own trading system which combines
different approaches. This system combines CoT data, timing instruments, volume profiles
and the footprint chart.
They have been participating in the Trading World Championship for 3 years now and havebeen among the 5 best traders in the world every year.

Mathew Verdouw
Mathew Verdouw, is the CEO and Founder of Optuma, and has been living and breathing
Technical Analysis for over 24 years. As a Computer Systems Engineer, he wrote his
own TA platform, which has been used all over the world from private traders to major
firms. More recently, Mathew has become the only person in the world to teach thelatest curriculum of all three levels of the CMT program. His broad exposure to TechnicalAnalysis and his engineering background has led to many new insights and brand new
ways to model analysis. Mathew is a staunch believer that there are still many new
discoveries to be made in the area of Technical Analysis and that Technicians should beat the forefront of all quantitative development.

Murray Gunn
Murray Gunn is Head of Global Research at Elliott Wave International. He worked as afund manager in global bonds, currencies and stocks, including long posts at Standard
Life Investments and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. He then joined HSBC Bank
as Head of Technical Analysis. Murray is the author of Trading Regime Analysis (Wiley,2009) and a contributor to Socionomic Studies of Society and Culture (Socionomics
Institute Press, 2017). In April 2018, Murray took over the helm of The European ShortTerm Update. You can also read his commentary in Global Market Perspective, Interest
Rates Pro Services and Currency Pro Services, and on deflation.com.

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Rüdiger Born
Rüdiger Born is managing director of BORN Traders and also founder and head of trading of
BORN STAHLBERG & PARTNER, his asset managing enterprise in Switzerland. Since earlyin the 90s he is an active trader at the international financial markets. Stock trading is partof his daily trading business in the same way as trading currencies, futures and options.
Additionally to the classical trading instruments in the meantime CFDs are also in his daily
focus.
Beside the trading Rüdiger Born is an advisor for a significant number of exchanges, banks,
brokers, fund managers and financial service companies domestic and abroad. Furthermore
he is internationally engaged in seminars, webinars and personal trainings for institutional
and private traders. Continuously Rüdiger Born is seen in television and internet as a trading
and market expert. Countless publications in the financial press fulfil the picture of his
considerable activities.

Stefano Gianti
Stefano Gianti is Education Manager for Swissquote Bank, a world leader in online
trading.
His training sessions focus on the correct management of portfolio risks and maximizing
profits through the use of CFDs on equity indices, commodities and currencies.
His analysis also focuses on the Macroeconomic situation of the markets and related
events that could influence them.
He is member of SIAT (Italian Society of Technical Analysis). He is hosted on weekly
basis by CNBC, SKY and RAI television and other networks on the expectations andtrends of the financial markets.
email: stefano.gianti@swissquote.com

Thierry Béchu
Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Master’s degree in Finance – Orléans University.
Started as Financial Analyst in a stock brokerage company where he discovered the TA
world and moved to this space as Technical Analyst
He co-wrote a french book on TA, almost the first one on this topic. It had a lot of success(more than 30k books sold), a best-seller for the editor Economica.
He also participated to the creation of AFATE, french association for TA
Then He moved to the trading space with various positions at Dresdner Bank, Commerzbank
in Frankfurt, and Société Générale in Paris and Lombard Odier in Geneva
In the meantime, he moved from the PT side to the HF industry facing clients and investments
constraints.
Thierry also teaches TA and Risk Factors at Paris-Dauphine University.

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Tim McCullough
Tim is the application specialist in Technical Analysis at Bloomberg LP in London,
where he manages the rapidly increasing demand for charting and data visualization
tools in EMEA.
He has over 30 years’ experience in financial markets, in trading, sales and researchat major international banks, including State Street, UBS, BNP Paribas and Lloyds.
He uses diverse but complementary technical methodologies, based on behaviouralfinance, to help Bloomberg clients to analyse sentiment in all asset classes and allconditions of volatility and liquidity.
In 2018 he additionally took an MSc in Financial Investigation, including a dissertation
examining the dependency of financial markets on illicit flows from money laundering.
He previously took a BA in Classics and is a full member of the Society of TechnicalAnalysts in London and of IFTA.

Yoan ZHANG
Yoan owned master degree of Finance in HEC Paris, he started his career as equity
trader in Chicago. In 2011, He obtained CFTe and worked as analyst in top European
institutions. After turning back to China, Yoan has worked in strategy development
and served on leading private equities and hedge funds in Shanghai since 2016. His
research is focused on behavior finance and published on mainstream media. As aboard member of FTAA, Yoan is one of the main instructor in Technical Analysis courses
in China Mainland organized by FTAA for the IFTA Certification. He is also one of themost appreciated financial trainer in China, he has taught in a few hundred seminars toboth retails and professionals in the past 4 years.

Linda Raschke
Linda began her professional trading career in 1981 making markets in options
as a member of two exchanges. She has been a CTA, principle trader for several
hedge funds, and a CPO (commodity pool operator). Her own hedge fund was
ranked 17th out of 4500 for best 5 year performance by BarclaysHedge. Her
early successes were recognized by Jack Schwager in his renowned Market
Wizards series.
She cowrote the wildly popular “Street Smarts” book in the mid ‘90s. And in 2019,
she released the widely acclaimed “Trading Sardines: Lessons in the Markets bya Lifelong Trader” in 2019, available only at LindaRaschke.net. She remains a
professional trader and an eternal student of the markets.

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Gema Goeyardi
Gema Goeyardi, MM, CAT, CFTe, MFTA, CWM, CSA, CTA, CFI, CFII, MEII, IGI
He is the Astronacci - Eye of Future technology founder that successfully turned
USD2,000 into USD5,500,000 in 8 years of trading in the Gold and Forex market
using technical analysis combined with Astrology and Fibonacci.
He earned the MFTA credential based on his finding on the relation between
Mercury Retrograde and Gold market as a significant bullish trend factor. In this
IFTA 2020, he will share the secret to make USD30,000 profits with the SUN
CAPRICORN cycle and the 1.618 Golden Ratio relationship to a divergence. This
technique is very simple, easy to learn but powerful to dramatically improve yourtrading winning rate in the Gold market.

Raul Andreas Glavan
Raul Glavan is leading the 2020 World Cup Championship of Forex Trading®. He is
also the prize winner of the multinational trading competition “Iron Trader 2011” andmastered the challenge by being the best trader in the community contest competing
against more than 2,500 participants. The result was a return of 495% in a trading periodof two months. In addition, he won the final contest in live trading at the Frankfurt
Stock Exchange. He was also for a long time managing the best performing wikifolio
out of more than 3,500 wikifolios at the new social investing platform wikifolio.com
with a total return of +610,86% high watermark in 2013 since inception.
In 2017 Mr. Glavan was also invited to Boston (USA) as rising star investment manager
globally through one of the world biggest asset management companies in cooperation
with the Harvard University and the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Angelo Michel
Angelo Michel is a trader in the stock markets for over 23 years. Since 1993
he is a reseller of MetaStock software in Indonesia and has known technicalanalysis since then. In addition to technical analysis, his favorite interests isvolume analysis to read smart money and developing algorithmic trading
systems.

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Aria Santoso
Aria Santoso is a stock speculator, analyst, and educator. His approachis a simplicity to be applied in a practical way to assist the laymen. He’s
featured in several television channels such as CNBC Indonesia and many
printed media for his view about the Indonesia market.

Hendra Martono Liem
Hendra Martono Liem is the CEO and founder of Ara Hunter Quantitative Trading
System with 23 years of experience in technical trading. His technique is simple
and unique “Three Green Pixels Buy and Tree Red Pixels Sell” inspires him todevelop application T1ARA and T1ARA 2.0 that helped more than 10.000 users
vary from 6 years old until 81 years old trader.
Recently, he develops T1MO application for US market, with this application canidentify which stock has buy/sell opportunity, stop loss and target only in 3 seconds.

Indrawijaya Rangkuti
Indrawijaya is an Independent Financial Trader and Analyst for more than
10 years, in the Commodities and Foreign Exchange market.
He Inspired by WD Gann Method & technique and simplified it for analysis
and trading.

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Linda Lee
Linda Lee is a trader in the Indonesian stock market for 11 years. She is
the first and only Indonesian woman until now who has CFTe. She is awriter of 5 technical analysis book. Her favorite indicator is fibonacci andtherefore she is known as Fiboprincess.
She organizes an investors and traders community with 7200 members
since 2015.

Muhammad Alfatih
Muhammad Alfatih is a professional technical analyst for more than 25
years and uses it as an investor, broker, analyst, and coach. He is VP at PT
Samuel Sekuritas Indonesia. He is a co-founder of AATI (Asosiasi Analis
Teknikal Indonesia) and his views are also quoted by leading newspapers,
radio and televisions stations within Indonesia.
He is one of the curriculum team and assessor for technical analyst
profession at Capital Market Certification Agency.

Soeratman Doerachman
Soeratman Doerachman start as stock investor/trader at the age of 62.
Founder of Indonesian Capital Market Retail Investor/Trader Community
with thousands member since 2005. Within 15 years act as tutor ofthousands retail investors and traders using simple fundamenatal andtechnical analysis tools.
Believe that stock investing and trading is simple.
Now at 77 years old still active as investor and trader practitioner as well
as stock teacher.

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