ideas worth sharing!

“You are for­given for your hap­pi­ness and your suc­cesses only if you gen­er­ously con­sent to share them.” _Albert Camus

TED pre­sen­ta­tions are an incred­i­ble way of learn­ing and stim­u­lat­ing new and cre­ative think­ing. While the themes are wide and var­ied, I have high­lighted on my pro­file pre­sen­ta­tions that have no axe to grind and noth­ing to sell. These edu­ca­tors want noth­ing else but to pro­vide you with the men­tal tools that should help you advance your­self in life and your cho­sen field of work. It is this shar­ing of bright ways of think­ing and fresh per­spec­tives on life that is a bet­ter way sup­port­ing our net­work of traders.

In the light of all the self aggran­diz­ing pro­mot­ers in my indus­try and the end­less media inva­sion of mis­in­for­ma­tion and decep­tions, to be able to sit back, relax , lis­ten and watch a pre­sen­ta­tion that is not at its core try­ing to sell me some­thing, is a fresh idea by itself.

I fell that it can help my traders advance their abil­i­ties to become a bet­ter trader. If that is true, we both ben­e­fit which makes us all happy. You will find on this link to my TED pro­file favorites eight or more lec­tures all of which have their impact on how an intel­li­gent trader should approach his business.

I sug­gest that you start with Richard St. John’s 8 secrets of suc­cess, it is a 3 minute pre­sen­ta­tion not pro­vided by a bro­ker or invest­ment advi­sor. If you want to jump into the deep end of the pool, watch Dan Ariely talk that answers: “Are we in con­trol of our own decisions?”

Join our com­mu­nity where peo­ple who have com­mon inter­ests in trad­ing world­wide mar­kets come together to share resources, embrace new friend­ships, and make char­i­ta­ble con­tri­bu­tions to ben­e­fit others.

Shar­ing a trad­ing rule: “Noth­ing more bull­ish than a failed bear­ish sig­nal.” _Mike Epstein

Read the page off this link for insights into the pas­sion that inspired a life long top tier trader, Mike Epstein.

In 1993, the Mar­ket Tech­ni­cians Asso­ci­a­tion (mta.org) estab­lished the MTA Edu­ca­tional Foun­da­tion (the Foundation/MTAEF) with a pri­mary mis­sion to cre­ate and fund edu­ca­tional pro­grams in the field of tech­ni­cal analy­sis – the study of how prices in freely traded mar­kets behave and how they can be used to antic­i­pate the future direc­tion. This mis­sion has since expanded to include the cre­ation and sup­port of a com­plete tech­ni­cal analy­sis cur­ricu­lum that is now being taught for credit in col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties around the world. Jack Cahn presently sits on the Inter­na­tional Advi­sory Panel to the MTA Edu­ca­tional Foundation.

Who watches the watcher? My Alumni does, the Uni­ver­sity of Mis­souri! Are you tired of the finan­cial press pre­dict­ing the cer­tain out­come instead of report­ing the facts?

The indus­try I have worked in for the last 30 years is reg­u­lated to pro­tect the pub­lic inter­est. But what about the finan­cial press? Should their use of “absolute terms”  and broad sweep­ing gen­er­al­i­ties be mon­i­tored so their reports are not cre­at­ing the events?” The Com­mit­tee of Con­cerned Jour­nal­ists is a con­sor­tium of jour­nal­ists, pub­lish­ers, own­ers and aca­d­e­mics wor­ried about the future of the profession.

The Aus­tralian Tech­ni­cal Ana­lysts Asso­ci­a­tion (ATAA) is an asso­ci­a­tion of both pro­fes­sional tech­ni­cal ana­lysts and any­one who uses tech­ni­cal analy­sis for pri­vate invest­ing, trad­ing or advising

The Inter­na­tional Fed­er­a­tion of Tech­ni­cal Ana­lysts was incor­po­rated in 1986 and is a global orga­ni­za­tion of mar­ket analy­sis soci­eties and asso­ci­a­tions. IFTA is an inter­na­tional non-profit orga­ni­za­tion with mem­ber soci­eties in 31 coun­tries. The IFTA 25th Annual Con­fer­ence will be hosted by the Tech­ni­cal Ana­lysts Soci­ety Sin­ga­pore (TASS) of Singapore

The Mar­ket Tech­ni­cians Asso­ci­a­tion (MTA) is the pre­mier global orga­ni­za­tion for those inter­ested in tech­ni­cal analy­sis.  Mem­ber­ship includes tech­ni­cal ana­lysts, port­fo­lio man­agers, traders, invest­ment advi­sors, mar­ket let­ter writ­ers and oth­ers involved in the tech­ni­cal aspects of equi­ties, futures, options, fixed income secu­ri­ties, cur­ren­cies, inter­na­tional mar­kets, deriv­a­tives, etc.

Jack Cahn is pass direc­tor of the Mar­ket Tech­ni­cians Asso­ci­a­tion from 1989 — 1995, chaired the MTA news let­ter and direc­tor of sem­i­nars, were he hosted the 1995 “Mar­ket Wizard’s” Sem­i­nar in Las Vegas, head­line speak­ers included: Jack Schwa­ger, Jimmy Rodgers, Trader Viv Spran­deo and Linda Brad­ford Raschke.