YOUR SPEAKERS AT THE LONDON INVESTOR SHOW
We are delighted to welcome the following speakers to the London Investor Show 2013.
 ALPESH PATEL |
 ADAM SHAW |
 JUSTIN URQUHART |
 RODNEY HOBSON |
 RAKESH SHAH |
 TOM HOUGAARD |
 LEE SANDFORD |
 HOLLY COOK |
 EDWARD PAGE CROFT |
 ROGER LAWSON |
 ALVIN HALL |
 SANDY JADEJA |
“Who makes money trading? Which products do they trade? Do traders who go short make more? What is the holding period of winning and losing traders? These are some of the issues I’ll be addressing.”
Alpesh Patel Alpesh Patel is an international bestselling author and a successful professional investor. His investment seminars attract hundreds of investors seeking to learn new skills and his regular invites onto BBC, Bloomberg and CNBC channels are testimony to his high quality commentary and insights on stock market investing. Alpesh is also a board member of TiE-UK, one of the world´s largest network of entrepreneur mentoring groups with Fortune 500 C-Level Executives as members.
RAKESH SHAH "With markets moving very quickly adapting to structural changes, professional investors are having to rebalance portfolios very quickly. For private investors this is a skill that needs to be learnt to make the most of the trading opportunities that are presented in the markets. In the last 6 months, short term trading strategies have been highly profitable and there has been a strong demand from the market for a greater understanding of intraday trading strategies. The London Investor Show is a great place to tell you about the strategies that are currently in play to give you the vital edge needed in trading today." Rakesh Shah
Rakesh Shah is a fascinating speaker, and full time trader. He has been investing in the financial markets for a number of years and has 15 years of experience using both fundamental and technical analysis techniques.He started his career in Corporate Finance in 1993 and later moving on in 1996 to work at different trading desks in Investment Banks. At BZW the Investment Banking arm of Barclays Bank, which was the worlds biggest player in the Sterling currency markets at the time, he cut his teeth working on the leveraged trading desk. In 1998 he established a Margin Trading Desk at ABN AMRO Bank London for the leveraged trading of currencies, FX futures and options. In 2001, he moved to Wall Street, New York working with Credit Agricole Indosuez, CARR Futures further developing his skills working with Hedge Funds, CTA’s and institutional clients by looking at the best way to execute futures and foreign exchange transactions. Through this he has gained a unique insight in to the most profitable trading strategies in today’s markets. Finally working at Deutsche Bank as a Director he left to trade independently in 2004 (www.tenpointtrading.com) and now runs a professional trading company and is a regular speaker at events.
Tom Hougaard is a professional private fund trader and one half of the WhichWayToday LIVE trading room duo, which every day, trades in front of people in a live market environment. He focuses his learned abilities across a range of asset classes but prefers to trade Forex and stock index futures. Mr. Hougaard stresses that trading can be learned and that natural abilities are not the key trait to successful trading. With his trading partner, Dr. David Paul, he both trades and teaches how they trade through their live trading room and their workshops. Mr. Hougaard has conducted more than a thousand workshops on trading and technical analysis and has held a variety of trading jobs in London. Tom Hougaard was born in Denmark in 1969. He moved from Copenhagen to the UK in 1992 and studied his Bachelor and Masters degree in Economics and Finance in Wales and Birmingham. After graduation he went to work for Chase Manhattan Bank. In 2000 he quit to trade his own funds. In 2001 he was hired by Finspreads (later to become IFX, and to be taken over by City Index) to run trading workshops, and provide market and trading comments on TV. In 2002 he was hired by City Index to do the same, and he was a prolific market commentator on CNBC, Bloomberg, BBC and CNN for 8 years. In 2009 he started WhichWayToday, with David Paul. WhichWayToday had been running as a SKYPE service since August 2008.
Following an 18 year career in professional football, Lee committed himself to mastering the markets. Like many beginners, the early years saw him attending a few courses - but this generated little more than frustration. So Lee read avidly and looked further afield. After an enlightening stint in the grains trading pits at the Chicago Board of Trade, he returned to the UK with new vigour. Lee has now traded for approx 20 years and earns his living as a trader. He will be demonstrating how he makes consistent profits using his Range Bars Trading System in the Forex markets. Range bars are relatively new and, he believes, they represent good opportunities. As traders we can be over-focussed on the concept of ‘time’ on charts instead of ‘price’. Lee will show that whether we use tick charts or range bars, traders need to know how price patterns form and how to take maximum advantage of them.‘A market is either in a trend or a range. You can trade both but only if you know the patterns. Range bars give you the same patterns every day so you can soon become an expert in them’.To make consistent profits and achieve stress-free trading Lee believes in keeping it simple. Range bars make it easy to identify chart setups. ‘I have some very powerful trading indicators that identify trends and range bound markets. These are all colour-coded so I can instantly see when I get a signal. Become the master of your tools and you then have a chance of being a highly successful trader”.
Alvin Hall is an internationally renowned financial educator, television and radio broadcaster, bestselling author, and regular contributor to magazines, newspapers, and websites.
For five years on the BBC, he hosted the highly rated and award-winning series, Your Money or Your Life, on which he offered both practical financial and psychological advice to people about how to take control of and fix their financial problems. His radio program, Jay-Z: From Brooklyn to the Boardroom, won the Wincott Foundation Press and Broadcasting Award for the best radio program for 2006. Hall has also hosted programs on current events and contemporary art for BBC Radio 4 including After Katrina and most recently, Alvin Hall’s Generations of Money. An eight-part television series for BBC World News called Alvin’s Guide to Good Business was broadcast internationally in 2010. In the US, he is a regular contributor on personal finance and the economy on NPR’s Tell Me More with Michel Martin.
Among Hall’s bestselling books are: You and Your Money: It’s More than Just the Numbers, Your Money or Your Life (winner of the WHSmith 2003 People’s Choice Award), What Not to Spend, Getting Started in Mutual Funds 2nd Edition, and Getting Started in Stocks 3rd Edition. His children’s book, Show Me the Money, has been published in over 20 foreign-language editions. In the US, the book has been named a Best Children’s Book of the Year (2009) by the Bank St. Book Committee, which is run by the Bank Street College of Education. It was also named a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People (2009) by a joint project of the National Book Council for Social Studies and the Children’s Book Council.
Hall lives in New York City where he designs and teaches classes about the investment markets for financial services companies, banks, regulatory authorities, as well as information and technology vendors. His acclaimed classroom programs and speaking engagements have provided thousands of people with a solid grounding in such topics as the workings of financial markets, investment products, effective investment strategies, reducing debt, planning for retirement and personal financial management. Alvin Hall is a member of the NYSE Euronext Financial Literacy Advisory Committee to help develop programs to improve knowledge about all aspects of personal finance among the general public. He is also on the Acquisitions Committee of the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Rodney Hobson is one of the country’s top financial commentators. His weekly column for the Hemscott financial news website is emailed out to 15,000 subscribers and his beginner‘s guide to the stock market, Shares Made Simple, has been reprinted three times. Rodney is a former News Editor for Business News on The Times and he has contributed to the City pages on the Daily Mail and The Independent. He has been interviewed on BBC TV and Radio and on CNBC. During seven years living and working in Asia he was Business Editor of the Singapore Monitor and Deputy Business Editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. His latest book Understanding Company News, a guide to stock market announcements, has just been published. He is also the author of Small Companies, Big Profits, written to help investors to maximise returns from smaller companies on the main stock market and on AIM.
Sandy Jadeja is the Chief Technical Analyst for City Index a leading provider for Spread Betting, CFD’s and Foreign Exchange. He has been involved with the financial markets for over 23 years and is a respected and widely recognized analyst and trainer in technical analysis.Mr. Jadeja has his comments featured in media venues as The Financial Times, The Telegraph, Barron's, The Australian Financial Journal, Dow Jones News and Reuters and The BBC. Currently, he is featured as a weekly guest analyst on CNBC's Closing-Bell, and provides an exclusive educational course on Technical Analysis for CNBC Europe’s Strictly Money program. He is also featured on Cantos TV and Asset TV, which is provided for global fund managers. Mr. Jadeja is also associated with The London Stock Exchange, The Investors Chronicles and Incisive Media alongside other leading financial organizations as a contributing editor providing weekly commentary on technical analysis. He also writes a widely followed weekly column for City AM and features in China Business Daily as well as The International Business Times and Your Trading Edge Magazine. Having established a reputation as an articulate presenter and trading mentor on the subjects of trading strategies and psychology, Mr. Jadeja attracts large crowds of traders and investors to both national and international trader’s conferences and World Expos. He has participated in and facilitated professional panels of expertise related to trading and investing and he was also elected exclusively from the UK in 2005 to speak on technical analysis for the GCC Economic Forum in Dubai. Mr. Jadeja is also the founder of the highly recommended www.spreadbettingtowin.com where he shares his trading insights, strategies, and provides unique educational workshops focusing on safer trading, risk control, and money management.
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Having trained as a barrister, Justin took up corporate finance, working in both Africa and Singapore. He then returned to the UK and helped in the developments towards Big Bang in 1986 in London which led to him helping to found Broker Services in 1986. Broker Services went on to become Barclays Stockbrokers, where Justin was Corporate Development Director. In early 2001, he co-founded Seven Investment Management, an investment management business that innovated the UK investment market with the introduction of the first Sterling Investment Wrap Account.
Seven Investment Management now manages and administers around £2 billion on behalf of professional financial wealth managers and intermediaries.Justin has a keen interest in developing the investment market to break down as many of the traditional barriers as possible for both private investors and smaller companies. As part of this he was involved in the original development of the AIM market and the investor educational company, Proshare. He writes regularly for national magazines and newspapers, and is a frequent commentator on television and radio, both in the UK and abroad.
Edward Page Croft’s background is in wealth management and engineering, having worked as an asset manager at Goldman Sachs and for a family office before founding Stockopedia. He graduated from Oxford University with first class honours in Chemistry and is a Zend Certified PHP Engineer. Edward is a columnist for This is Money and is regularly published by Thomson Reuters, Business Insider and the London Stock Exchange’s Private Investor Magazine. He is the author of two books including “How to Make Money in Value Stocks” and “How to Make Money in Dividend Stocks”. Ed’s specialty is ‘systematic value investing’ – how to build an automated investment process that beats the market.
Holly Cook is Editor of Morningstar.co.uk andHemscott.com. Holly reports and comments on UKcompany and sector news, investment trends and broadermarket sentiment and developments. She also writesabout personal finance and tips for successful investing,with a focus on new-comers to the world of investment.Before joining Morningstar Europe in 2009, Holly wasSenior Markets Reporter for Thomson Reuters, having cuther teeth as a European Markets Reporter for Standard &Poor’s MarketScope newswire.Holly holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics(PPE) from the University of East Anglia and an MSc inViolence, Conflict, and Development from the School ofOriental & African Studies (SOAS).