Introduction to Futures and its Benefits to Retail Traders

Seminar Fee: $35* / *Early bird price valid until 2 July 2019 (U.P. $40)

Futures contracts are one of the most important financial innovations in history – but they are often misunderstood.

Discover from a practitioner, in this 3-hour session, the historical evolution of futures contract – how it was traded on the trading floor till its transformation into today’s electronic trading.

Learning Objectives

On top of forging a comprehensive understanding of what the instrument is, participants will also learn why futures is one of the key trading/hedging instruments for professional traders. In turn, YOU can explore similar opportunities with futures and enjoy the same advantages as the pros do.

Target Audience

Beginner traders or investors, who wish to explore this professional financial instrument to benefit from market movements.

Outline

Concept of futures
Historical development and evolution
Management of price risks
Who are the various futures participants
Role of the Exchange
Role of Locals
Understanding and taking advantage of Order Flow
Economic functions of Futures
Futures applied to various asset classes
How to use Futures to benefit from the stock market movements, in BOTH directions
Understand what Margin/Leverage is
Understand the various ways to handle Expiry
Futures as a Hedging tool
Futures as a speculative tool
Futures as an investment tool
Get to understand important Financial Jargon
How a Live Futures trading account looks like
An introduction to the multiple trading approaches by professionals

Trainer’s Profile:

Tom Yuen (YCK) is a futures trader with extensive system-based trading and execution experience, and a strong background in quantitative technical analysis. YCK’s futures trading experience spans over 20 years with the first 13 years spent as a floor/pit trader with Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX), now known as SGX-DT, Local.

YCK belongs to the first batch of Computer Science graduates in 1986 from the National University of Singapore. He worked as a Defence Scientist in DSO and spent 3 years in Sweden developing defence software from 1986-1989. While serving his bond after coming back to Singapore, he discovered his passion in the financial market.

He particularly enjoyed the idea of playing this number game, where one can be immediately rewarded, right down to the last deserving cent, according to his trading abilities and skills, with no need to deal, manage or interact with people. With no formal training in the financial discipline, he developed his edge through his strength from the technical field, coupled with an immense interest in psychology, he created trading methodologies that is derived purely from Technical Analysis, with a delicate blend of mass psychology. He quit his job and joined SIMEX in 1992 and traded his own account from day 1. At the end of the first year, he managed to match his last drawn pay as a software engineer, and was experiencing exponential pay increment for his subsequent years.

With an equally strong passion in teaching, he started sharing his trading knowledge with retail individuals from 1993-1997, encouraging interested individuals to join the floor. This teaching was interrupted when his daughter was born in 1996, when he then got himself trained as an early childhood Montessori teacher.

After the trading pit closed, YCK was approached by SGX to assist the exchange in conducting formal training courses. With more than 20 years of training and coaching experience, covering areas ranging from youth leadership, risks and rewards of trading, technical analysis, money management to financial literacy, he is one of the key mentors (invited and endorsed by SGX-DT) who regularly conducts training classes for aspiring traders, as well as running seminars in Malaysia and Thailand, sharing trading experiences not only to retails, but also to prop teams.

Having benefited from trading in the pit environment, YCK strongly believes in the importance of a trading community. Hence, he is also the key AFACT (Association of Financial And Commodity Traders) mentor who carries out mentorship programs at SGX, and is the only trainer who is doing mentorship program in the SGX training room with students, three times a week, from market open till close.

Contact Us

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(Operating Hours: 9.00am to 5.00pm)

Terms and Conditions

Changes

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Registration

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