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Traders & Investors Club Meeting - 20th June 2009
To Speculate Is Human, To Hedge Is Divine: Double-Digit Returns With Downside Protection
These days, hedging our portfolio is the only way to be invested in the stock market and still get a good night's sleep.
Even during periods of high stock market volatility, there are still solid companies that are going to weather the storm. How can we secure an edge and increase our chances of investing profitably for the long ride?
This evening, Kevin Barry of the Traders & Investors Club will be presenting an investment strategy that can offer us a double-digit percentage return on our long-term positions as well as providing us with a hedge against as much as a 50% fall in the stock price.
What Can We Learn From History?
Richard Hicks is a long-standing member of the Traders & Investors Club with many years of investment banking experience under his belt. He is now a full-time trader and investor who considers 'news flow' to be of great importance in determining the direction of the trend.
A pre-requisite in the investment banker's skill set is the ability to identify from the abundance of economic news those releases that are most likely to prove significant in the trading environment. In his dealing days, Richard developed a spreadsheet that used simple data, such as macro and leading economic indicators that, when mapped alongside financial market data, proved helpful in identifying anomalies in the market which, in turn, suggested investment strategies.
Armed with these tools and by re-examining several historic financial shocks, he will encourage the audience to consider whether or not the current conditions have appeared before and on which leading indicators we should be focusing our attention going forward.
Market Roundup And Open Forum
In order to be a successful trader in the modern world, you must be aware of how the price of wheat or an after dinner speech by Ben Bernanke will affect your stock, commodity and property portfolios.
Kevin Barry of the Traders & Investors Club and Simon Dixon of Benedix will present a summary of the recent global market action and throw the floor open to the audience for their take on the current trading environment.
Are we really seeing 'green shoots' in the economy or are we just kidding ourselves? This evening, we will be looking behind the headlines to answer the Big Question.
Our Month In The Market
Members are encouraged to share their successful, or just as importantly, not so successful, trades with the Club. Have you discovered a strategy that works for you or would you like to learn how other traders have become successful? Bring your trades along and perhaps get a different perspective on how to best manage them.
Tonight's Speakers
Simon Dixon was originally trained in Corporate Finance as a Stock Broker and Market Maker. Simon is well-known for his unique insights into Market Maker manipulation and revealing institutional trading secrets. Simon speaks for top institutions such as TD Waterhouse, and Bloomberg amongst others. He lso contributes to the BBC, Investors Chronicle and the Information Exchange. Simon is currently Head of Training & Research at Benedix providing training and recruitment services for the banking and finance sector.
Richard Hicks is a trader and investor who considers 'news flow' to assist in determining the direction of trend. Richard started as a credit analyst in a bank and then went on to spend 17 years in the dealing room of an Investment bank both as a trader and marketer of derivatives and as a dealer of medium-term bonds, repos and LIBOR futures products.
Kevin Barry is a full-time trader. His preferred investment vehicles include options, spread betting and foreign exchange.