Date: May 28, 2009

Time: 3:30pm CT (4:30pm ET)

Title: Market Profile Trading – Practical Applications and Techniques

Speaker: Tom Alexander

Company: Alexander Trading

Length: 68 Minutes, 58 Seconds

Description: If you are a serious trader and want to learn the most recent information available on incorporating Market Profile in your equity index futures trading, this live webinar session is for you. Tom Alexander from Alexander Trading will introduce the following topics which detail trading techniques for traders of European index futures like Eurex Dow Jones EURO STOXX 50® Index or DAX® Futures, but are applicable to any financial instrument or time frame:

• A brief history of the Market Profile concept including it’s early beginnings as a floor technique, the transition off-floor, and its evolution from an individual day, discrete view to a more macro concept.
• The importance of auction market principles including trading auction market principles vs. trading the profile graph, understanding the importance of a dimensional view of volume and the profile graph vs. bar charts.
• Practical trading applications of auction market principles reviewing the profile graph, the importance of bar charts, how to consistently and objectively determine risk/reward across all timeframes of any trade under consideration, and specific “Market Profile” trade set-ups.

Tom's background consists of twenty-years of trading experience. Tom has been a stockbroker, commodities broker and owned a commodities/futures brokerage firm. He has been a CTA (Commodity Trading Advisor) and also involved with institutional trading and advising. Tom traded large private accounts for over ten years and has been published in several well-known trading magazines. He is the founder and managing director of Alexander Trading.

 

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