SHOWCASE THEATRE
Learn how to trade for a living with these professional trading speakers
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Speaker
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Understanding the importance of Risk Reward Ratios – Live Trading
- Everything in trading comes down to risk and reward. Learn how to plan your trading knowing how much each trade can earn or lose you and you will soon start to improve your overall performance. In this session, Anil Kumar explores ways for you to pin point entry and exit levels based on these parameters.

Anil Kumar
Over 20 years’ experience trading Futures, Bonds, Commodities and Forex. He has developed several trading algorithms currently used by professional traders, investment firms and private investors. Primarily trading short term price movements, his mathematical trading models are built with a strong risk management foundation. Anil indulges in his other passion: teaching others how to trade including work on building the Everything Trading education platform.
An Effective and Simple Swing Trading Strategy to Make Money
- Built by traders for traders, our team members have trading experience that spans back to the 80s and have successfully traded on all major financial markets from Asia to North America. Our mission is to provide retail and institutional clients around the world with an exceptional trading environment that empowers them to reach their full potential.

Charlie Burton
Charlie has been trading 24 years of which 19 have been full time. It was a result of a live trade-off at the London Forex Show that the BBC heard about Charlie and subsequently created ‘Traders; Millions by the minute’. On that show, you see Charlie banking £700 on a trade in a couple of hours. Charlie also runs the trader community www.charlieburtontrading.com
- 1.30am – 2.00pm
Surviving long enough to succeed – How to be one of the 5%
- As few as 5% of traders are profitable in the long-term. However, it does not need to be that way. Paul introduces Raven, as the risk management and performance optimisation platform for retail traders, to help them to survive long enough to succeed.

Paul Ward
Paul Ward is a specialist in algorithmic trading, risk management and optimisation system design. He began trading US Futures in 2005 and has been a professional trader for many years. He has a particular interest in supporting the systematic management of risk and the optimisation of performance for novice retail traders. This led him to establish Raven in 2021.
3 Keys of Profitable Trading Systems
- Michael walks through three keys every profitable trading system needs and provides actionable insights of how to use them for your own trading.

Michael Taylor, Shifting Shares
Michael Taylor is a full-time UK trader of his own private capital since December 2016. Michael’s focus on UK stock market education led him into writing his first book, and he now has a weekly trading column at Investors Chronicle and occasionally contributes to Money Week. He has been invited as a guest speaker to share his expertise on cruise ships as well as a TEDx conference, and has been featured on IG Index TV and PI World.
Technical vs Fundamental Analysis - Why a combination of both, is always the best option
- Asanka will cover LAT's award-winning trading approach and explain how fundamental news and macroeconomic data affect prices. The London Academy of Trading (LAT) is an award-winning trading academy based in the City of London. As the 1st accredited trading academy in the UK, LAT is pioneering the way by providing accredited, vocational programmes in financial markets trading.

Asanka Weeratunge, Programme Manager, London Academy of Trading
Asanka completed his degree in Theoretical Physics with German from Loughborough while pursuing a career as a commercial pilot. He then found an interest in financial markets and enrolled on the Level 5 Applied Financial Trading programme, receiving a Distinction Grade and going on to work as a Technical Analyst for TradeMade Systems, providing professional Technical Market Analysis for multiple Financial Institutions within the City of London. Having stayed in touch with LAT, he was invited back to join the Team while continuing to manage and trade a private fund.
3 Things Every Trader Should Know Before Placing a Trade
- Use Anil's checklist for traders to understand your risk, entry and exit levels, and trading psychology to help you stay profitable.

Anil Kumar
Over 20 years’ experience trading Futures, Bonds, Commodities and Forex. He has developed several trading algorithms currently used by professional traders, investment firms and private investors. Primarily trading short term price movements, his mathematical trading models are built with a strong risk management foundation. Anil indulges in his other passion: teaching others how to trade including work on building the Everything Trading education platform.
How to Build a Growth Stock Portfolio to Outpace UK Inflation
- In this presentation, we will use the power of VectorVest to find smaller companies that are growing earnings strongly, safely, rising in price, and are suitable for a more aggressive investor and trader. Risk should be managed carefully and I will show you VectorVest's proprietary Stop-Loss level for each share. Finally, VectorVest addresses the overall market and gives the trader an objective signal to know when it's safe to buy stocks and when to stand aside. The trader will leave the presentation with a roadmap on how to find small growth stocks that are rising in price and how to manage the risk in running these positions.

David Paul
David Paul is the MD of VectorVest UK. He continues to trade short term for cash and to bank that cash into more solid longer term UK shares for both growth and dividend income using the VectorVest methodology.
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