Who Should Attend?
Forecasting Using Technical Analysis
- Anyone wanting to develop a market view and identify major targets.
- Readers of technical forecasts seeking to better evaluate their value and meaning.
- Energy and other commodity traders seeking to incorporate directional strategies into their trading methods.
- Analysts who wish to understand the basics tools of technical forecasting.
- Traders who want to be able to identify when a market is trending or correcting.
- Hedgers, buyers and marketers who want to improve their timing.
This class requires no previous experience with technical analysis, just a willingness to learn and an affinity for numbers and charts. Even experienced traders, who are familiar with technical trading, will benefit from this class, as forecasting is a corollary or complementary field, and is rarely taught in trading oriented classes.
The class will teach techniques that will be helpful not only for those who wish to trade for profit, but also for cash market participants, investors, analysts, and hedgers who need to understand the market.
A typical class attendee is either a trader, buyer or marketer who wishes to improve their trading strategies by developing a market view and by managing targets more effectively or an analyst, or planner, analyst or manager who wishes to better understand market direction, possible targets, and improve the planning process. Even those who has experience with the markets but need a clear understanding of how forecasting is done, will find this class gives them the foundation needed to read and understand a high-level technical forecast and the basics develop more accurate market view on their own.
Trading Using Technical Analysis
Both beginning and experienced Traders, Managers, Marketers, Supply Personnel, Analysts, Risk Managers, short-term Hedgers and Others involved in the purchase or sale of energy or other commodities, who wish to add discipline and structure to the process including, managing trade size, entry and exit strategies, and identification of trade risk in advance and managing trade risk more effectively.
The class will teach techniques that will be helpful not only for those who wish to trade for profit, but also for cash market participants and hedgers who need to manage market positions more effectively.
A question often asked is "I have no experience with technical analysis, is this class for me?" The class is designed to be understandable and useful to those who know what a futures contract is and perhaps have some experience with the cash market or hedging but no or little knowledge of technical analysis.
The class is also structured to be helpful to experienced traders and risk managers in fine-tuning their technical trading skills and gaining a better knowledge of how to use technical indicators. In addition, developing trading strategies using different indicators and multiple time frame techniques, which even experienced traders are often not familiar with, will be taught.
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