Thompson J

This course module provides examples of executing entries in intraday timeframes in order to isolate asymmetries in risk-reward.Topics Covered: Isolating ideal trade location; fading ORBs; PTP patterns; managing intraday risk-reward; hand-offs from lower to higher timeframes.Course Outcome: After completing this module you'll be able to execute low risk intraday entry tactics and leverage those entries into higher timeframe market contexts.

This course module is based on unorthodox trading tactics which looks for out-of-character price action (market anomalies) to indicate a market's directional resolution. Topics Covered: Shallow 5D reactions; surprise swings; using P/L filters.Course Outcome: After completing this module you'll be to develop trading strategies based on a failure of price to properly develop 18D line extensions.

This course module is a basic introduction to unorthodox trading tactics which looks for out-of-character price action (market anomalies) to indicate a market's directional resolution. Topics Covered: Flexible trading; trend entropy; quadrant failures.Course Outcome: After completing this module you'll be to develop trading strategies based on a failure of price to reach targeted price objectives.

The essence of this text is the application of The Basel II Framework Use Test. I will illustrate the facets of Use Test adherence with risk management tools and strategies that complement a banks pursuit of Advanced Internal Ratings Based Approach, Basel II Framework compliance. I will simultaneously pay close attention to the specific Basel II Framework, Use Test adherence measures. This book offers the practitioner a useful prescription for ensuring that their bank covers the necessary bases when pursuing its Basel II Framework implementation. It additionally puts into proper context where banks should be concerned in their pursuit of the Use Test, with specific attention to regulator, boards and executives concerns that the bank continues to operate with sound fiscal behaviour. The very foundation of a banks lending practices is the credit cycle. This book identifies both the traditional model and the newly minted Basel II model of the credit cycle. It also demonstrates practices that create sustainable business processes which optimize the risk-reward drivers of a retail banking environment. It focuses on the different operational areas of the bank and the role each plays within the Basel II credit cycle. Finally, it provides a foundation for which the credit practices present in Marketing, Underwriting, Account Management, Portfolio Management, Recoveries and Collections and Regulatory Capital setting can be justly applied.

 This course module contains a series of interviews with four professional traders (and Trend Dynamics course graduates) revealing how these individuals apply trading strategies on a day-to-day basis in order to make their living trading.Course Outcome: After completing this module you'll have a much clearer idea of the mindset that professional traders develop and how professionals execute Trend Dynamics strategies and tactics in live market conditions.

 This course module sets forth definitive guidelines for developing a robust trading plan based on market principles. Topics Covered: Guidelines for robust trading models; diversification vs specialization; diversifying by type of trade; ten of the most important trading problems and their solutions; three types of winning trading strategies; maximizing your participation in market moves; enhancing risk-reward via trade or sector diversification; how to anticipate mean reversions in risk/reward; variables that favor ideal trade location.Course Outcome: After completing this module you'll be able to construct stable, robust trading plans based on longstanding market trading principles.