Adelaide Chapter Monthly In-Person Meeting - Wed 19 August 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
7.20 – 9.50 pm Robert Brain – Private Trader and Educator
Topic: - Risk Management – Stop Loss, Position Size, Reward/Risk (Workshop)
When investing or trading in the equities market it is very important to think about how to manage the risks, and how to optimise the position size. How can you sleep easy at night? This is important to both protect your capital from any downside risk, and to maximise your profits – every extra dollar is very useful. And it doesn’t matter whether your investment capital is only $5,000, or $5 million. There are many ways to manage all of this; but how?
Same size position every time, or not? Is a position size of only $500, or perhaps $1,000 a good size for the new investor/trader? Should we enter a position using a phased approach (ie. to pyramid the position)? That is, half now and half later? or in thirds even?
How much of our available capital should we be putting into any one market position?
What do we mean by “amount at risk”? How is this related to the initial stop loss value and the actual position size? How can we set this so that we can still sleep at night, and it won’t matter if the share price falls by, say, 20 percent?
This session can be an interactive workshop, with questions, input and discussion from start to finish. We will look at several real-life examples of position set-ups and consider the options for placing the initial stop loss, and for the position size. Some people will have already found the ideal approach, and it will be good to share experiences and hear their views.
For this session we will use the latest version of Robert’s Trading Worksheet. You can download it, and print it, from here:
www.robertbrain.com/files/trading-worksheet-sample.pdf
About Robert Brain
Robert has been studying the many aspects of technical analysis since 2006, and he is convinced that the share market price charts summarise the underlying opinions and emotions of the real market participants, and that every price chart tells a story. He also believes that Price Action Context is very relevant, and that Nimble Short-Term Investing is the way to go.
In 2010 Robert decided to combine his then casual interest in the share market with his extensive experience as an educator to develop his web-based Share Market Toolbox business to help investors and traders to refine their own strategies and learn about the strategies of others. Robert is a private trader and educator, and an ATAA Councillor in the Melbourne Chapter. He also runs the Australian BullCharts (charting software) User Group with monthly Melbourne meetings and online webinar sessions.
Coffee break somewhere in the middle
9:50 pm Meeting close
Date and Time
19 August 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