- 2001: Volume 10, No. 5 FIA Presents EXPO 2001: The Biggest Futures and Options Conference of the Year

Single stock futures, trading systems and strategies, and online markets will highlight the program at the Futures Industry Association's annual Futures & Options Expo November 28-30 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.

The Expo exhibit hall includes more than 100 exhibitors from exchanges and software providers, to data vendors, publications, book publishers, brokerage firms, and trading systems.

Perry J. Kaufman, president of Strategic Market Systems, returns to Expo to chair a session on Resolving the Dilemma of Sideways and Trending Markets. Panelists will share their experience in identifying whether price movement is trending or stagnant. Once you know the type of market, there are many strategies that will capture profits. This panel will discuss what techniques can be used and what markets are likely candidates.

Professional coach and trader, Van K. Tharp, Ph.D., will run a simulated trading game to illustrate the importance of position sizing, expectancy, and discipline in trading. During the game debriefing, he will identify key biases that prevent prudent decisions and how to overcome these biases.

Chicago Board of Trade floor trader, Chip Kenyon will discuss successful trading of interest rate futures with the help of Rick Santelli, on-air editor for CNBC. Kenyon will discuss how he profits in an interest rate complex that includes identical and mini-sized contracts, traded in the pit and on the screen.

Tom Busby, president and founder of The DayTrading Institute presents The S&P: Ultimate Trading Vehicle on Friday, November 30 at 10:30 a.m. He believes the S&P index provides the five most important features that contribute to a trader's ability to find success: liquidity, volatility, accessibility, leverage and risk management. He will describe how each of these characteristics fits together to formulate the most complete trading platform available in today's market.

The program also includes a session on trading arcades, analyzing volatility, trading tools, and the new CBOT X-Funds.

Three sessions on Wednesday give information on the operational and legal aspects of trading security futures products. Uses for these new products will be explored in the opening session on Institutional Use of Security Futures Products.

Innovative Products for Changing Times features representatives from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago Joint Venture, Nasdaq Liffe Markets and Peter Steidlmayer, president of Steidlmayer Software, Inc.

Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive officer of Bank One Corporation, will speak at the FIA Law & Compliance Division Luncheon on Wednesday, November 28. He is credited with putting Chicago's largest bank into the black.

Taste of Expo will take place on the exhibit hall floor on Wednesday, November 28 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday night's reception is hosted by the CBOE, CME and CBOT Single-Stock Futures Joint Venture at the CBOE.

Registration fees include a three-day pass to all Expo events for $650; single day passes for $325; and single session passes for $85. A pass to the exhibit hall is $20.00.

The exhibit hall will be open Wednesday, November 28 from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Thursday, November 29 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; and Friday, November 30 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. each day.

For full program information and a list of Expo exhibitors, visit www.futuresindustry.org.

Mary Ann Burns is senior vice president of the Futures Industry Association and editor-in-chief of Futures Industry magazine.