UTRADE Forex Summit

Synopsis

Brexit is at the end of Oct 2019. Will the pound leave the EU without a deal? Trade tariffs and trade tensions between the world's two largest economies have been a major focus point in 2019. While investors have used macroeconomics to profit from movement in the forex market, traders have used charts to analyze the forex market.

In this seminar, we have a speaker who uses macroeconomics to predict forex movement. We also have a chartist, who will share his techniques to analyze the forex market. Our third speaker is a self-directed trader, who will share his successful way to profit from the forex market. In the last section of the event there will be a 45-minute panel discussion. Our 3 speakers will take part in a round table discussion with participants, who will get to question the speakers in a panel discussion on forex.

Programme Outline

0900 Welcome Speech

0915 Currency Outlook From A Technical Viewpoint by Nicholas Tan

0945 A Macroeconomic Approach For the Forex Market by Victor Yong

1015 Tea Break - Platform Demonstration

1045 Insights on Currency Trading From a Professional Trader by Gary Yang

1115 Panel Discussion

1200 End of Seminar

Speakers' Profiles

Nicholas Tan is our Associate Director of FX and CFD with 30 years of experience in the financial markets. Prior to joining UOB Kay Hian in 2002, he had worked for 13 years as a FX trader with major banks in Singapore, rising to Vice President in the process. He is the author of 2 popular books, "Handbook for Forex Trading" and "Handbook for CFD Trading". He has made guest appearances on TV program like Money Mind to discuss about Forex Trading. Since 2007, he has given numerous talks and seminars, in the area of technical analysis, locally and overseas for Technical Analysts Society of Singapore and other societies and organizations. Besides holding a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore, Nicholas also holds a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation from the Market Technician Association of USA. He is also a Certified Financial Technician (CFTe) with the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) and has an Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment.

Victor Yong joined UOB as a market strategist in 2014. In his current role as Interest Rate Strategist in the Global Economics and Markets Research team, he is responsible for interest rate research with a primary focus on Singapore and secondary coverage on the ASEAN and G10 regions. Victor also has eight years of experience as a rates trader at UOB and another regional bank in Asia Pacific. In addition, he was previously part of a European bank's rates submission team to help set up the framework for monitoring submissions in selected Asian rates. Victor started his financial career at The Reserve Bank of New Zealand's risk unit. Victor graduated with a Bachelor of Business Commerce from the University of Auckland.

Gary Yang has been a self-directed trader since 2012, specialising in Forex. He started trading back in 2008 and has developed his own style of trading over time and is a firm believer in back testing any strategies before utilizing them. Gary's ability to anticipate short-term trend and price levels using a combination of technical analysis and sense of market sentiment, helps him transit successfully into full-time trading thereafter. Considering his keen interest in testing strategies and automation, since 2017 Gary put his trading focus towards algorithmic trading.