CME

CME Group is an entity formed by the merger of CME and CBOT. We bring more than 250 years of expertise to the global marketplace, and are one of the largest and most diverse exchange in the world for trading futures and options. We offer the widest range of benchmark products available on any exchange that cover all major asset classes, such as interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, commodities, energy, and alternative investments. CME Group is traded on NYSE and NASDAQ under the symbol "CME."

Breakout Sessions

Advanced Trading Tactics for Precious Metals Futures Markets

John Person
Learn how to potentially profit and protect your risk from volatility in the current commodity bull market. As the precious metals markets move, Gold & Silver daily ranges often meet or exceed other markets dollar values. Traders may want to consider adapting and diversifying into trading opportunities in multiple markets. Use this special opportunity to learn advanced technical trading strategies to trade the electronic precious metals futures markets with 30-year trading veteran and author, John Person. This workshop will help to explain the distinct benefits of trading gold and silver futures versus other trading vehicles. John will show you how to develop a trading plan based on four set-up patterns and triggers often used to enter the market, as well as a technique to use for stop placement, risk management and how to calculate profit objectives.

Effective Market Entry and Exit Strategies in the Grain Futures

Jim Wyckoff
Better market entry and exit strategies often translate into more trading winners--and potentially more profits. Jim Wyckoff will explain in detail key market entry and exit strategies for the grain futures (many of which can also be used effectively in other markets) by using key technical signals and by employing selected market and stop orders. Jim's trading strategies can often be employed in any trading timeframe--from intra-day trader to longer-term position trader.

Futures and Options Strategy Applications Using Japanese Candlesticks

Dan Gramza
Traders with specific trading guidelines may react to the market in a very consistent fashion with identified profit and risk management objectives. CME Group invites you to join Dan Gramza, President of Gramza Capital Management and instructor of CME Group professional traders, as he presents his proprietary approach to Japanese Candle trading techniques. Learn the logic and rationale behind his trading strategies as Dan explains the process to create critical trading parameters.

Discover new trading strategies and gain insights into the CME stock index and FX markets. Find out why financial institutions, investment managers and individual traders typically use these exciting products.

Futures Trading Using Unique Trend Analysis

Dan Gramza
In this presentation, Daniel Gramza presents the concepts and techniques of Trend Analysis. Learn how Daniel’s unique approach may open a new dimension to trading by revealing techniques you may use to help define a trending market, how to technically determine when a trend change has occurred and how to trade the new trend.

In this presentation, Dan seeks to help you learn:

• Specific techniques to define a trending market
• How to technically determine when a trend change has occurred
• How to identify proprietary symmetrical and non-symmetrical trend change
• How to trade a new trend
• What market conditions may lead to the most potentially profitable trades
• How to determine magnitude objectives of different trading techniques
• How to determine when a trade should become productive
• How to identify when a trade is failing
• How to determine where to place the risk management stop
• How to manage profits

Dan will apply techniques to live CME Group markets including equity index, fx and interest rate futures.

High Speed Indicators for High Speed Trading of the Futures Markets

Fari Hamzei, Hamzei Analytics - sponsored by CME
Fari Hamzei will discuss the evolution and how the use of Hamzei Analytics' Proprietary Indicators may be applied to trading the futures markets, CME's Equity Index Futures (ES, NQ & Mini-sized Dow). Live Charts will be used.