Trading Expo 2000

Trading Expo 2000

Futures & Options Expo 2000 will convene at a new location—the Hyatt Regency Chicago-on different days of the week—Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, November 7, 8 and 9.

The Hyatt exhibit hall offers an additional 5,000 square feet of exhibit space. Exhibitors include exchanges, software providers, data vendors, publications, book publishers, brokerage firms, and trading systems.

Over the three days, sessions are being organized around three major topics: futures and options industry issues, markets online and trading strategies.

Sessions on trading strategies include Winning Trades Made Easy with Rick Bensignor, Mixing Systems for Better Portfolios with Perry Kaufman, Exchange-traded Funds: A New Future for Index Trading with Brad Zigler, New Concepts in Support and Resistance with Clif Droke and S&P 500 Futures with Tom Busby. David Stendahl will present Diversified Portfolio Construction 101 and Jim Miclot will give his views on Computer Wars: Analysis-As-Execution in the Virtual Trading Era. Other sessions will cover moving traders from the floor upstairs to trade on the screen and how to become a commodity trading advisor.

Industry issues include Chicago Revisited, an update from exchange leaders on the plans for their marketplaces. Other topics include New Directions for Established Exchanges, Reinventing Clearing, Best Practices, and Retail is Back! E-Europe will cover the migration of trading to electronic platforms that is happening faster in Europe than in the U.S.

Markets Online will cover moving traditional functions online, legal issues of doing business online, and e-marketing. Expo delegates can learn more about the business-to-business exchanges at B2B 101, B2Bs Eye Futures and Vertical Marketplaces.

David Jones, vice chairman of IBJ Lanston and frequent commentator on fixed income markets and Federal Reserve policy actions interest rate forecasting will be the featured speaker at the FIA Division lunch on Tuesday, November 7 at 12:30 p.m. He is author of Fed Watching and Interest-Rate Projections: A Practical Guide; The Politics of Money: The Fed Under Alan Greenspan; and The Buck Starts Here: How the Federal Reserve Can Make or Break Your Financial Future.

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