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1 intalus.com TRADESIGNAL W O R KSHOPS TECHNICAL ANALYSIS & ALGORITHMIC TRADING FOR INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS. Powered by

2 TRADESIGNAL W O R KSHOPS INTRODUCTION TRADESIGNAL. WORKSHOPS. TECHNICAL ANALYSIS & ALGORITHMIC TRADING FOR INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS. Tradesignal workshops are offered as an in-house workshop, normally at your offices. All workshops will benefit securities, currency and commodity traders, fund managers and analysts. The course is designed to appeal to those who want to use the techniques of technical analysis on their own, or to utilise rule-based strategies for trading or, aid the investment decision process. The workshops concentrate on creating examples that are clear, but comprehensive. With numerous practical examples you get the know-how to operate financial markets with increased confidence using targeted risk and reward controls. MOUNTAIN. Mount Everest in Nepal / China. The earth s highest mountain. 8,848 meters ASL (29,029 ft).

3 WORKSHOP TECHNICAL ANALYSIS I. Technical Analysis I is an interactive one-day course that provides a thorough grounding in technical analysis to traders and analysts. It covers the essentials of technical analysis and will bring students to a level where they can apply Technical Analysis correctly in the markets and timeframes they cover. ABSTRACT. b Different types of charts. b Highs and Lows how to describe market behavior using charts. b Differentiate trending and sideways markets. b Working with indicators. b Volume analysis. b The technique of relative strength. b Define entry and exit points. b Working with stops. b Risk analysis. REQUIREMENTS. None DURATION. One day including exercises. Breaks can be arranged individually. COST.* Euro (1.450 Euro*) per day for up to 3 persons, plus 240 Euro (190 Euro*) for each additional person. * Customers of Tradesignal are paying a reduced rate (in brackets). Catch the right highs and lows based on Technical Analysis criteria like swing patterns.

4 WORKSHOP TECHNICAL ANALYSIS II. Technical Analysis II is a one-day course for practitioners with market experience. The course will show participants how to find their own way of analysing the markets, using advanced indicators and studies to set up sound trading strategies. ABSTRACT. b Combination of indicators and various time horizons. b Consideration of the market breadth. b Cycle analysis using Ehlers indicators. b Candlesticks and pattern recognition for traders. b Breakout trading. b Reversal strategies. b Combining different trading strategies. b Portfolio weighting and diversification with strategies. REQUIREMENTS. A working knowledge of Technical Analysis, as they are taught in the workshop on Technical Analysis I. DURATION. One day including exercises. Breaks can be arranged individually. COST.* Euro (1.450 Euro*) per day for up to 3 persons, plus 240 Euro (190 Euro*) for each additional person. * Customers of Tradesignal are paying a reduced rate (in brackets). Beyond common Technical Analysis: Trading a portfolio of stocks with multiple time frames and risk-adjusted position size.

5 WORKSHOP BACKTESTING & OPTIMISATION. This workshop is for traders and portfolio managers who want to invest according to a strictly rule-based approach. Learn how to develop, test and optimize such an approach using Tradesignal. No programming experience is required for this workshop. ABSTRACT. b The essentials of trading strategies. b Overview about pre-built trading strategies, shipped by Tradesignal. b Development of a trading strategy using Tradesignal s Trading Wizard. b Linking various signals / strategies into a single trading strategy. b How to test strategies correctly. b Analysing stability and optimizing trading strategies. b Strategies applied to a portfolio of different asset classes. REQUIREMENTS. Knowledge as they are taught in the two workshops Technical Analysis I & II. DURATION. One day including exercises. Breaks can be arranged individually. COST.* Euro (1.780 Euro*) per day for up to 3 persons, plus 290 Euro (240 Euro*) for each additional person. * Customers of Tradesignal are paying a reduced rate (in brackets). Optimization means to examine various parameters of robustness. The goal is a smooth rising equity curve.

6 WORKSHOP EQUILLA TRAINING I. You can create almost any idea with Equilla and test its performance using Tradesignal. This workshop is for Tradesignal users with no or minor programming knowledge. Different kinds of strategies are explained using real examples. You will learn to develop and test your own trading strategy ideas. ABSTRACT. b Overview of most used commands. Using Equilla help. b Development of individual indicators. b Combining different markets and time frames in a single strategy. b Defining chart patterns. b Developing relative performance indicators. b My first trading strategy putting it all together. REQUIREMENTS. Advanced knowledge of Technical Analysis. Knowledge about the meaning and types of trading strategies. DURATION. One day including exercises. Breaks can be arranged individually. COST.* Euro (1.780 Euro*) per day for up to 3 persons, plus 290 Euro (240 Euro*) for each additional person. * Customers of Tradesignal are paying a reduced rate (in brackets). We show you how to create rules for trending or sideways markets and the best time to enter and exit. Equilla is a registered trademark of Tradesignal GmbH. Unauthorized use or misuse is specifically prohibited.

7 WORKSHOP TRADESIGNAL TRAINING. This one day presentation and training will show you the best ways to use Tradesignal. You will learn about software capabilities in the first hour, and then we will provide personalized on-site training using analyst or trader cases. We will set up charts and discuss the best ways to profit from the special analytical features of Tradesignal. ABSTRACT. b Using different types of charts. b Combining indicators and charts. b Using trend lines and other drawing tools. Setting alerts. b Testing of indicators and simple trading strategies. b Indicators and multiple timeframe analysis. b Scanning Markets. Looking for trends and chart patterns. b Publishing charts in MS Word and Power Point. b Tradesignal and MS Excel. REQUIREMENTS. You are already a user of Tradesignal or seriously interested in using the software at your desk. DURATION. Two hours for presentation and basic development training. COST. At no charge for institutional customers of Tradesignal. 250 Euro for interested customers who are already testing Tradesignal and want to implement first, custom programming. Tradesignal is a registered trademark of Tradesignal GmbH. Unauthorized use or misuse is specifically prohibited.

8 WORKSHOP SPEAKERS YOUR SPEAKERS. DAVID PIEPER Chief Content Manager of Intalus PHILIPP KAHLER Senior Quantitative Analyst of Intalus David is responsible for editorial content at Intalus and has 15 years experience in the financial markets. After completing his business degree and continuing education to become a Certified International Investment Analyst (CIIA), he spent several years in the investment research department of a large German federal state bank. His passion for trading and technical analysis is expressed regularly in articles of TRADERS magazine. Philipp was born in Austria and studied electrical engineering before joining a large German bank. He developed fully automated trading strategies for the proprietary trading department. His book about successful trading strategy design has been among the top sellers in Germany for the last two years. He is responsible for the in-house training of institutional traders and the development of custom-made algorithmic trading strategies at Intalus.

9 WORKSHOP SPEAKERS YOUR SPEAKERS. HENRIK B. MIKKELSEN Senior Account Manager of Intalus ANDREW SAUNDERS Managing Director of Intalus Henrik has worked in the investment industry with commodities, equities, fixed income and FX for more than 20 years. He also worked for Thomson Reuters as a fixed income and technical analyst specialist. In 2004 he joined Vattenfall A /S Denmark to trade Nordic Power as Head of Portfolio Management and commented weekly on developments in the Nordic power market and power-related commodities both from the technical and fundamental perspective up until Beside his work at Intalus, he runs a strategy advisory company out of Zug, Switzerland. Henrik is a member of MTA, SAMT, STA (Societies for Technical Analysts) and IFTA (International Federation of Technical Analysts) and has taught Technical Analysis for more than 12 years. He has applied Technical Analysis as a tactical and risk management tool throughout his career. Andrew has been in the finance industry for over 20 years. He started his career consulting with employers and trustees on regulatory issues and performance of pension schemes. An early opportunity to shadow Fred Stafford of Gann analysis fame fired Andrew s passion for Technical Analysis. Moving into the shorter term trade environment he set up an equity identification service based on the methods used by Stan Weinstein. He also spent time with esignal as European Seminar Manager, responsible for educating traders in many aspects of technical analysis. In 2008 an opportune meeting with Intalus saw the start of the company in London and an exciting new chapter began.

10 GENERAL INFORMATION FURTHER INFORMATION. All participants will receive a certificate of attendance and workshop documentation upon successful workshop completion. Depending on the prepaid workshop, a USB flash drive will be provided with the Equilla code examples used in training. All workshops are based on Tradesignal, the leading software for Technical Analysis and Algorithmic Trading. ABOUT INT LUS. Intalus was founded in 1990 to specialize in the development of financial software, with offices in Bremen (Germany), Frankfurt, Dubai and London, and via representatives in Kiev, Paris, and Zurich. The Intalus Group is also active in rule-based management of financial assets through Intalus Asset Management in Hamilton, Bermuda. More than 300 Banks, Insurance Companies, Asset Management firms, Energy Trading firms and Fund Management firms place their trust in the services of the Intalus Group. ABOUT TRADESIGNAL. Professional traders all over the world rely on Tradesignal to develop and optimise rule-based trading strategies. A state-of-the-art user interface along with many tools enable back-testing within charts using data from providers like Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters and Trayport. An integrated development environment, open interface for in-house data, watch lists, scanner, a detailed performance-report and portfolio trading capabilities make Tradesignal one of the best software products for technical chart analysis and strategy development. PUBLISHER. Intalus GmbH Wilhelm-Herbst-Str Bremen Germany All prices plus VAT. Additional travel expenses will be charged at cost. CONTACT Intalus. INT LUS. Bremen INT LUS. Frankfurt INT LUS. London T: +49 (0) T: +49 (0) T: +44 (0) All rights reserved. E: bremen@intalus.com E: frankfurt@intalus.com E: london@intalus.com

11 intalus.com TRADESIGNAL W O R KSHOPS TECHNICAL ANALYSIS & ALGORITHMIC TRADING FOR INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS. TRADING WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE IS LIKE MOUNTAIN CLIMBING WITHOUT TRAINING. IT S TIME TO CLIMB TO THE TOP. ORDER YOUR WORKSHOP TODAY. workshops@intalus.com GRE T PERFORMANCE. WORLDWIDE. MADE IN GERMANY. SINCE BERLIN. BERMUDA. BREMEN. DUBAI. FR ANKFURT. KIE V. LONDON. PARIS. ZURICH. FOLLOW US