Adelaide Chapter Monthly In-Person Meeting - Wed 15 July 2026 at 7.00pm (ACST)
5:30 pm: Pre-meeting Dinner - Hope Inn Hotel, 348 Port Road, Hindmarsh - Please note this is a new venue.
All members and visitors are welcome to join us for dinner. No booking required. This is an opportunity to network with fellow traders.
MEETING AGENDA
7:00 - 7.15 pm Welcome and Intro: Note this is an in person meeting only as John does not want it recorded
7:15 - 9:50 pm 7:00 pm: John Pontikas
Multiple Time Frame Alignment: Structuring Bias, Zone and Entry Across the H4 and 15-Minute Charts
ABOUT THE TALK
Most traders treat timeframes as a matter of preference: pick a chart, watch it, trade it. John's session challenges that approach directly. The talk sets out a structured method for aligning a higher timeframe (H4) with a lower timeframe (15-minute) so that direction and execution are governed by the same underlying logic, rather than two unrelated decisions.
The session walks through the protected point sequence: how a liquidity sweep, a sharp reversal and a confirmed swing combine to establish directional bias on the H4, and then how that same three-step logic is repeated on the 15-minute chart to time entry once price returns to a defined zone. Attendees will see how a Fibonacci-based entry zone, a base or ceiling structure and an impulsive candle are used together as a three-element confluence check, and why removing any one of the three disqualifies the setup.
The talk is deliberately structure-first. John will address the discipline side of multi-timeframe trading as directly as the technical side. He'll explain why counter-trend setups are excluded regardless of how attractive they look, why stops are placed at structural invalidation points rather than arbitrary distances, and why a low-frequency, high-conviction approach (a handful of qualifying setups a month) tends to outperform constant activity. He will also touch on how this approach holds up against the published research on trader performance, including the well-documented finding that specialisation and rules-adherence, not raw market knowledge, separate the profitable minority from everyone else.
Attendees will leave with a concrete framework for testing whether their own multi-timeframe process has genuine logical alignment between the chart that sets their bias and the chart they use to pull the trigger, or whether the two are operating independently, which is where most inconsistency in execution begins. John will go through his whole trading system.
About the speaker
John Pontikas has spent 26 years in financial markets, beginning his career at ABN AMRO Morgans and RBS Morgans before founding JMP Strategic Investments in 2011. His institutional background instilled a standard of process and documentation that has shaped everything he has built since, a conviction that consistent results come from structure, not instinct.
John is the director of JMP Strategic Investments Pty Ltd and an Authorised Representative of PGW Financial Services Pty Ltd (AFSL 384713). Alongside his advisory work, he has spent years developing and refining rules-based technical frameworks for his own trading, with a particular focus on how higher and lower timeframes interact to produce high-probability entries. This personal trading and technical analysis work, developed independently of his advisory role, forms the basis of this session.
Coffee break somewhere in the middle
9:50 pm Meeting close
Date and Time
15 July 2026, 19:00 until 21:50
Location
Education Development Centre, First Floor (Room 1.2223)
https://www.education.sa.gov.au/docs/infrastructure/edc/Education-Development-Centre-information-brochure.pdf
4 Milner St, Hindmarsh
Adelaide S.A