CitiFX Pro will host a series of seminars for small and mid-sized
institutions trading margin FX. The seminars, to be held in London from
March 29 to May 4, will provide an opportunity for FX fund managers to
hear from industry experts and participate in discussions on topics
ranging from the FX markets and trading strategies to fund structures
and capital introduction.
At the first seminar on Tuesday, March 29, two speakers will review the
FX markets and trading strategies. The first speaker, Greg Anderson,
Foreign Exchange Strategist at Citi, will discuss why the "small” G10
currencies will continue to outperform EUR, USD and JPY, how global
imbalances are shrinking and share a few of Citi’s strategy team’s
favorite trades at the moment. He will also discuss the performance of
various quantitative and discretionary styles of FX trading over the
past few years.
The second presenter, Max Knudsen, founder of PIA-First, a performance
based market sentiment research and trading service, will focus on
building a technical FX trading strategy. Knudsen will discuss
indicators to judge both direction and entry points for trades and will
review how PIA-First allocates a risk level to each trade and how to use
this technique for effective money management. Knudsen will consider a
"European sentiment wave” that offers opportunities for investors. He
will also outline the systematic and structured approach to these
sentiment-based strategies and the discipline required to construct the
trades to exploit them.
Agenda – Tuesday, March 29th 2011
18.00 - Tea and coffee will be served
18.25 - Guests to take their
seats
18.30 - 20.00 Speakers
20.00 - 21.45 Drinks and canapés
will be served
Location
City Gate House (view
map)
39-45 Finsbury Square,
City of London
EC2A 1PQ
Institutional investors and fund managers interested in attending the
March 29 seminar should register at www.citifxpro.com/europe/forex-seminar-series
or contact CitiFX Pro at +44 800 279 3243.
About the Seminar Presenters
Greg Anderson is a senior G10 FX strategist with Citi in New
York. He holds a PhD in economics from Brandeis University and is also a
CFA charter holder. He has over 12 years experience in FX markets,
having worked at Societe Generale, ABN AMRO and BankBoston prior to
Citi. He has extensive experience as an analyst of both G10 and EM
currencies, but is presently part of Citi’s G10 team. His analysis
covers FX implied volatility in addition to spot and forward FX. He is
an expert in a variety of different styles of quantitative FX models. He
is oft-quoted by Bloomberg, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal and has
made many appearances on TV outlets such as CNBC, Bloomberg, BBC and CNN.
Max Knudsen In a career spanning 24 years in the City Max spent
10 years in option sales followed by 14 years in analysis as head of
Technical strategy at Swiss Bank Corp, UBS, and Dresdner Kleinwort. In
2007 Max and the technical team left Dresdner and founded PIA-First, a
performance based market sentiment research and trading service. Now
supported by a team of 17 in the business, PIA-First provide sentiment
research to more than 50 financial firms worldwide and back their
research trades with their own funds, and capital from their clients
(pia-firstcapital.com). Max is also one of the most regular guest
analysts on CNBC and has held a regular bi weekly interview since 2002.
He specialises in strategies to exploit sentiment for both an intraday
and quarterly horizon following a robust systematic discipline. In 2009
Max and the team were voted the best FX Technical Strategy service in
the industry and were runners up in 2010. They are currently shortlisted
for the same award in 2011.
About CitiFX Pro
CitiFX Pro is Citi’s online forex
trading platform for active individual and small institutional
clients including commodity trading advisors, broker-dealers, money
managers and hedge funds. CitiFX Pro is currently live in US, UK and a
number of Asian markets and will be launched in additional countries in
2011. Additional information may be found at www.citifxpro.com.
About Citi
Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately
200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160
countries and jurisdictions. Through Citicorp and Citi Holdings, Citi
provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a
broad range of financial products and services, including consumer
banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities
brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Additional
information may be found at www.citigroup.com
or www.citi.com.
