SFO Conference 2002 + Speakers +

SPEAKERS

Hear these and other market-savvy veterans at SFO Conference, November 1-3 at the Hyatt Regency - McCormick Place, Chicago.

Terry Savage (Feature Keynote Speaker)
Get Ready for "The Savage Truth!" at the SFO Gala Dinner, Nov. 2 Terry Savage, nationally known and revered expert on personal finance, commentator on CNN, PBS and NBC, addresses SFO Conference dinner attendees as keynote speaker on Saturday, November 2. Her most recent book, The Savage Truth on Money, was named one of the ten best money books of the year by Amazon.com and was made into an hour-long television special that aired on PBS. Terry knows the markets inside out because her expertise comes from experience. As only Terry can, from years in the financial arena – trader, advisor, television and radio personality with the credentials to be more than a mere “voice” – she’ll talk about the markets like no one you’ve ever heard. Gutsy and smart, she’ll bring the kind of commentary that will inspire you.

Jon Najarian
(speaking on “How to Make Market Volatility Your Friend!”), pulls together real-time examples of how to really tame the market by using options strategies that will boost your trading effectiveness NOW and discusses uses of the new single stock futures in your portfolio. Whether pounding running backs for the Chicago Bears or puts and calls on the floor of the CBOE, Najarian plays to win. “Doctor J” is heard four times daily on CBS Radio, is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Crain’s, and CBS MarketWatch, is the founder of www.TCBNews.com, and offers a market critique each day on Fox TV’s “Fox News in the Morning” in Chicago, among other credits. His practical “in the trenches” experience and speaking ability will bring conference participants an enormous dose of take-home advice.

Peter M. Kendall
(speaking on “The Elliott Wave Principle and Orangutans’ Rule of the Financial Jungle”), the co-editor of “The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast” since 1999 and director of Elliott Wave’s Center for Cultural Studies. A close associate of Robert Prechter’s, Peter has been quoted in Barron’s, USA Today and other financial publications. Peter knows his subject well and discusses why stock market sentiment works and how the Wave Principle regulates its influence. What does this key to market forecasting say right now about the bear market and society at large? Peter tells all.

Price Headley
(speaking on “Options Indicators to Predict the Next Major Market Move”), the founder and chief analyst at BigTrends.com, shares his favorite techniques for measuring options activity as an indicator of the prevailing investor sentiment. Headley’s stock market timing has been ranked in the Top 10 by the Timer digest, and options indicators form the core of his trading success. Most traders lose because they emotionally react to market moves, buying near the highs while selling near the lows. Learn how to use the CBOE volatility index and other tools to gauge investor fear and greed, and two options strategies to limit dollars at risk while still producing returns 2-4 times greater than a stock-only strategy.

Afshin Taghechian
(speaking on “How to Achieve Long-term Success with Short-Term Trading of E-Mini Indexes”), one of today’s most sought-after experts and internationally recognized lecturers on all aspects of trading, founder and CEO of Traders International and developer of the TIMES trading methodology for trading the S&P 500 index, including the popular e-mini contracts. Afshin, an expert market analyst, shares an overview of his legendary trading techniques which take advantage of opportunities in the e-mini index markets which have experienced explosive growth in volume over the last few years.

Russell Wasendorf, Sr.
(speaking on “Pushing the Envelope for Investors - Where Do Hybrid Markets Go from Here?”), Chairman and CEO of Peregrine Financial Group Inc., and President of Wasendorf & Associates Inc., the publisher of Stock Futures and Options Magazine, has been at the forefront of a rapidly expanding and changing futures industry over the years. His luncheon address, “Pushing the Envelope for Investors - Where Do Hybrid Markets Go from Here?” explores where we’ve been and where we’re headed in the short and long term. The next generation of hybrids -- Single Stock Futures. Online trading – a new lifestyle for investors. Derivatives and strategies that were once only imagined. The shift from a seller’s market to a buyer’s market. Wasendorf, who last year chalked up seven-figure profits by plunging into online trading, in addition to his other responsibilities, takes conference attendees the next step in the metamorphosis of the markets for investors who are more than mere sideline observers of the market.

Chris Terry
(speaking on "Timing the Market Technically and Mentally"), a full-time professional trader in both the index futures and equities markets. In the last few years he has focused on speaking and training traders on technical analysis and the methodologies that have helped him achieve profitability. Chris and his partner, New Market Wizard Linda Bradford Raschke, provide a real-time online trading service giving entry and exit signals to professional traders at www.lbrcapital.com. In his presentation, Chris reveals the key to market timing by providing the pros of using multiple time frames to identify the best opps. He also shares his insights on risk management because, as he says, “Knowing when not to be in the market is just as important as knowing when to get in.”

James B. Bittman
(speaking on “Why Options? Why Bother?), of the CBOE’s Options Institute, a former equity options market maker and author of two books, Options for the Stock Investor and Trading Index Options (McGraw-Hill). Jim offers three practical strategies – why you should understand options and why you should use them as part of a long-term investing program. If you are particularly interested in decreasing risk, Jim will explain how options can be used as a stock substitute. If your main concern is income, Jim will discuss covered calls and address common misconceptions about this basic strategy. Finally, he’ll review using options as insurance.

Howard Simons (top) and Christopher Krohn
( speaking on “Securities Futures Products in a Nutshell”), are key players at, respectively, Nasdaq Liffe Markets and One Chicago, two of the exchanges which this fall will introduce single stock futures for the first time in U.S. history. These two pros will bring the whole subject of equity futures products into clear view, providing investors with strategies that will add another notch to the his or her trading IQ.

David Lerman
(speaking on “The Madness of Crowds: Strategies for Moody Equity Investors”), is a key member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s equity index futures team and has spoken at scores of conferences to help investors learn where they are on the stock index learning curve. Whether you’re talking large-cap, small-cap or technology issues, investors need to know strategically how to chart in rough waters. David takes his subject seriously but does a rousing presentation that will leave investors tremendously better informed.

Brett Steenbarger (top) and Brace Barber
(speaking on “Trading with the Instincts of an Army Ranger!”), team up to explore the psychology and practicalities of becoming an “elite trader.” Brett Steenbarger, PhD, whose new book, The Psychology of Trading (Wiley), hits the bookstores in January, is associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. An active trader who has published more than 50 articles and book chapters on short-term approaches to emotional and behavioral change and modified many of these techniques for traders, puts his head together with Barber. Barber, a West Point grad, takes the thought process and principles learned at the Academy and U.S. Army Ranger School and combines them with Brett’s to make a fascinating study that will put you into that “elite” corps.

Brett Steenbarger
(speaking on "How Traders Can Become Their Own Therapists") In recent years, psychologists have developed techniques for accelerating emotional and behavioral change. These methods, collectively known as brief therapies, allow people to make changes in days and weeks that normally would have occurred over months and years of therapy. In this presentation, active trader Dr. Steenbarger will draw upon years of teaching and over 50 peer-reviewed publications to explain how brief therapies work and how traders can utilize these techniques to improve their trading results. Among the topics to be covered are hands-on techniques for mastering performance anxiety, negative thinking and depression, impulsive behavior, and anger. A special segment of the workshop will focus on techniques for getting into the trading "zone". Drawing upon actual case studies, Dr. Steenbarger will show traders how they can become their own therapists by employing brief therapy techniques to interrupt and shift problem patterns.

Doug Zalesky
(speaking on"25 Principles for Successfully Day Trading the Dow"), A 20-year member of the Chicago Board of Trade. He spent most of his successful futures pit trading career trading for his own account in the U.S. Treasury Bond pit at the CBOT. He also has traded in the S&P pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the London International Financial Futures Exchange. After leaving the trading pits Doug has spent the last ten years mentoring and coaching both electronic and pit traders on the behavioral aspects of trading and teaching his traders the discipline necessary to succeed as a trader. Doug's "25 Rules of Trading Discipline" has been read by thousands of traders. Doug is CEO of eLocaltrading.com, a provider of execution and clearing services to the futures and equities electronic trading community and floor traders.

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