PROGRAM - DAY ONE
Saturday 18 October 2025
*PLEASE NOTE: Program timings are in AEDT. Program is subject to change.*
| Time | Description | Speaker |
| 7:45 – 5:30 | Registration and information desk open | – |
| 8:15 – 8:45 | Arrival tea and coffee | – |
| 8:45 – 8:55 | Opening address | ATAA President |
| 8:55 – 9:00 | Day one introduction | Max Knobel |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | From Setup to Exit : Engineering the Perfect Trade in 2025 | David Bird |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Morning tea | – |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | The science behind a smooth equity curve: Multi-Strategies, Asset Allocation, and Position Sizing.
1. The Dual Nature of Trading Strategies: Explore the benefits and pitfalls of two opposing trading approaches: mean reversion (left-skewed) and trend following (right-skewed).
2. How to Craft a Balanced Portfolio: Learn how blending these strategies produces a more favourable distribution of returns, with a mode in positive territory and an elongated right tail, paving the way for a smoother, more stable equity curve.
3. Strategic Asset Allocation: Delve into methods for allocating capital across uncorrelated strategies for optimal performance, minimizing risk while maximizing reward.
4. Position sizing: Discover the connection between emotional and financial capital, and how to stay focused and disciplined in volatile markets. | Laurent Bernut |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch | – |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Is AI a better analyst than you?
In this session, Moomoo Securities’ CEO Michael McCarthy looks at the state of play in automated analysis. Although the name Artificial Intelligence inspires imagery of robots taking over the world, the roots of AI in fact trace from technical analysis. The session examines the development from black boxes to trading bots, the tools developed along the way, and what might be next for artificially intelligent analysis. | Michael McCarthy |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Afternoon tea | – |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Details coming soon | Phil Anderson |
| 16:30 – 16:40 | Comfort break | – |
| 19:00 – 22:00 | Conference Gala Dinner
(Optional - please register for the Gala Dinner when making your conference booking. Dinner includes three-course meal and drinks).
From the sleepless nights of steering a business through the GFC to the exhilaration of pulling off major turnarounds and high-stakes deals, Campbell will share a candid inside look at what it really takes to build, buy, and back businesses. Expect raw stories, sharp insights, and practical lessons — from failures, successes, and the grey areas in between.
He’ll also open the lid on his personal investment portfolio — the good bets, the bad bets, and the “wait and see” bets — and what leaning into opportunity truly means. And as a lifelong technologist, Campbell will reflect on the future of investing in the age of AI.
This keynote isn’t just a success story — it’s a roadmap of scars, wins, and strategies you can take with you. | After Dinner Speaker: Campbell Sallabank |
PROGRAM - DAY TWO
Sunday 19 October 2025
*PLEASE NOTE: Program timings are in AEDT. Program is subject to change.*
| Time | Description | Speaker |
| 7:45 – 4:30 | Registration and information desk open | – |
| 8:10 – 8:50 | Arrival tea and coffee | – |
| 8:50 – 9:00 | Day two introduction | Max Knobel |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Traditional Technical Analysis and Time-of-Day Dynamics: Discretionary Techniques That Remain Relevant in the Future of Trading
Analyzing different time windows throughout the trading day's session. What are the times, what is significant about them, and what one may want to look out for as far as technical conditions and patterns are concerned. Discussing how a trader can take advantage of specific time windows depending on their style and how it may serve them in the future. Different asset classes will be discussed such as: index futures, currency futures, metals, energies, equities, and even digital currencies as they all have subtle nuances to consider. Consider how these time windows play a role in your own analysis and hopefully can be something to add into your trading tool box for the future. | Kyle Potter
(Joining us live remotely from USA) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Morning tea | – |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | The Invisible Mind: How Subconscious Beliefs Shape Your Trading Success
1. Who’s Really in The Driver Seat? Understand how subconscious beliefs supersede conscious intentions, willpower and drive your trading.
2. The Weight of Toxic Shame: Explore common limiting beliefs such as "I am not good enough", "I don’t deserve to be rich" and learn how they act as silent saboteurs to trading success.
3. Why Willpower Fails: Discover why classic techniques like affirmations, conscious self-discipline fail to penetrate the subconscious and create lasting change.
4. Practical Tools for Transformation: Learn actionable techniques to elicit, access, and clear limiting beliefs and rewire your mind: trading journals, compassionate self-coaching, and guided meditations. | Laurent Bernut |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch | – |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | From Chaos to Conviction – Building Robust Trend Systems in a Noisy World
In a world obsessed with prediction, many traders seek control through forecasts, tweaks, and setups that often fail when markets shift. This presentation challenges that mindset by exploring a systematic approach to trend following rooted in robustness, simplicity, and process. We will walk through a comprehensive framework covering clean data handling, market universe design, rule-based system templates, ensemble construction, and workflow validation – all without predictive overlays. Live demonstrations will showcase the full workflow in action, offering attendees a hands-on look at how robust systems are designed to endure uncertainty and capture outliers. For traders tired of chasing trades, this is a path from noise to clarity – from chaos to conviction. | Richard Brennan |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Afternoon Tea | – |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | The Problem with Backtesting is Not what you thought
Most systematic traders are familiar with the practice of backtesting. Most are familiar with the concept of overfitting the data (curve-fitting). Most are unaware of the bias introduced when choosing a symbol to backtest and the time frame chosen.
Michael Berman, a veteran trader of more than 25 years, will demonstrate how surprisingly common this bias is amongst many experienced traders and how difficult it is to avoid it. Michael's presentation will highlight how psychology and statistics get in our way and how best to avoid these biases going forward. | Michael Berman |
| 16:00 – 16:10 | Comfort Break | – |
| 16:10 – 17:10 | Trading the Turn: Why 2025 Belongs to the Technically Informed Futures Trader
Cameron will deliver high-impact insights tailored to technical traders, with a clear focus on market structure, economic cycle shifts, liquidity manipulation, and how traders can leverage probability to build consistency in volatile environments. This keynote bridges global macro forecasting with hands-on trade application. | Cameron Buchanan |
| 17:10 – 17:20 | Closing address | ATAA President |