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The Dance of Debt--China and the United States

Expert: Joseph Trevisani, Chief Market Analyst at FX Solutions
Moderator: Maud Gilson

Summary:
When yields on the 10 Year Treasury note were climbing to 4.0% last spring bond traders fears were focused three items: the Federal Reserve’s liquidity provisions, the Obama administration’s ten year deficit projections and the inflationary potential of both programs. The collapse in Treasury prices prompted the Fed’s entry into the Treasury market. Its $300 billon program to purchase government debt led to suspicions that the US Government had embarked on direct monetization of its debt, printing dollars to make up for the revenues it no longer had.

Chinese officials warned the US government to be mindful of its status as the world's largest holder of US debt and cautioned Washington to act as a careful custodian of its currency. But rhetoric aside, the Chinese had reasons of their own to fear what would have been a dangerous fall in the Treasury markets and the consequent rise in American interest rates.

The End of the Dollar Asset Bubble

Expert: Joseph Trevisani, Chief Market Analyst at FX Solutions
Moderator: Maud Gilson

Summary:
From last September until March the dominant currency trade was a direct kin to the panic in the financial markets. When in doubt purchase dollar denominated assets. A huge bubble of Treasury assets were bought with foreign and domestic money. As the crisis rolled on, even though it had started in the US, involved many of the most prominent United States financial institutions, and called forth an unprecedented amount of government intervention and a deluge of dollar liquidity, nothing dented the dollar's ascendancy. Compared with the potential for the rest of the world the United States was the safest holder of wealth. How long will it take to unwind this asset bubble and what are the consequences for the dollar?

The Unwinding Of The G-8 Consensus

Expert: Joseph Trevisani, Chief Market Analyst at FX Solutions
Moderator: Maud Gilson

Summary:
China and the G-8 Or What to do When Your Banker Says No

The origin of the Group of Eight was an invitation from French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing in 1975 to six of the major World War Two combatants to meet at Rambouillet in France. Leaders from West Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States, Japan and France attended that first meeting. The impetus to the summit, if not the sole topic, was the first post war economic challenge to the west, the 1973 OPEC oil embargo. In 1976 Canada was invited to join and the group stayed at seven until 1997 when Russia formally became a member.

Why relate this history? The nations of the Second World War consensus that have dominated the world for 60 years are close to bankrupt. Their bankers are now calling the shots; those who pay get to decide the future.

Updated 2009 Markets Forecasts - Perception vs. Reality in the Globalization 3.0 Credit Bubble “Deleveraging Purge”

Expert: John W O'Donnell, Chief Knowledge Officer at Online Trading Academy
Moderator: Maud Gilson, Conference Manager

Summary:

Mr. O’Donnell will cover different topics in this webinar:

• Why the global bear market is not finished
• Why the global economic metrics last 12 months are worse that first 12 months of 1929-1930 crash
• How to protect your capital in the deflation ahead
• Why the major risk ahead for all assets is deflation not inflation
• What is the Baltic Dry Index telling us now about demand destruction

The Green Revolution?

Expert: Joseph Trevisani, Chief Market Analyst at FX Solutions
Moderator: Maud Gilson

Summary:
Several confidence measures in the United States have returned to the levels they held before the great financial collapse last fall. Do they presage an impending economic recovery?

US Consumer Confidence readings from the Conference Board and University of Michigan have pulled out of their deep post September troughs. The same is true for the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) manufacturing and services surveys. But these forward looking sentiment statistics contrast markedly with measures that gauge actual economic commitments. The performance of the consumer and manager is much at odds with what they say is their economic view.

EXTRA: You can read Joseph's Market Directions report about the same topic: "The Green Revolution".

How to Survive and Prosper in 2009 Credit Crisis

Expert: John W O'Donnell, Chief Knowledge Officer at Online Trading Academy
Moderator: Maud Gilson, Conference Manager

Summary:

We will explore why the global credit crisis was created and why the US Fed rate cut programs are anemic to cure it. Other important questions will be covered as:

• How to profit in 2009 by short selling specific assets.
• What roles will gold play in 2009 as safe haven vs USD Tbonds?
• Why the new President’s stimulus program will not work as proposed?
• Will America look more like the 1930s or 1970’s economic crisis?
• Is capitalism dead in USA?

We will explore using new ETFs that enjoy bull and bear position with 3x leverage.

How to profit in today's globalization 3.0 credit bubble economy

Expert: John W O'Donnell, Chief Knowledge Officer at Online Trading Academy
Moderator: Maud Gilson, Conference Manager

Summary:
The world financial system is in a mess with prospects of the global credit bubble bursting according to many credible pundits. We will explore why bubbles form and why they burst from an Austrian Economics perspective. We will also explore why cash and cash equivalent in times of deflation - yes, I said deflation - is your best asset hedge against the bubble bursting. We will also cover specific trading ideas to win in this globalization 3.0 era, and how to preserve capital and profit.

Why will be the role of gold and silver ? T.Bonds? Dollar index, etc. Will the major and regional banks in US lose $2 trillion in capital as forecast by a famous NYU Economist?
Will Fannie Mae be nationalized and common shareholder wiped out by this action. Will Lehman and Bank of America fail? Or are they to big to fail?

Join the OTA Chief Knowledge Officer and engage in the debate.

Advanced Methods for Finding Dominant Trends in FX Markets: Understanding Oil and Forex Markets

Expert: Mark Whistler, Senior Market Strategist at TradingMarkets.com
Moderator: Maud Gilson

Summary:
Understanding Oil and Forex Markets

In this session, Mark will show traders how to value the "fair price of oil", while also showing how and where oil is correlated to Forex markets. What's more, traders will learn the true correlation behind oil and the U.S. dollar. Finally, traders will learn to predict oil and Forex markets, within the present paradigm of the market.

BONUS: You can DOWNLOAD THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION of this webinar!

Power Trading in Globalization 3.0

Expert: John W O'Donnell, Chief Knowledge Officer at Online Trading Academy
Moderator: Maud Gilson, Conference Manager

Summary:
Join Online Trading Academy's Chief Knowledge Officer, John O'Donnell as he brings true perspective to a chaotic world of finance, debt bubbles and how to protect yourselves, loved ones and finances. This "eye-opening" discussion of the "Real World" has been applauded across the world. His workshop and keynote speaking sessions were applauded "live" in New York City at the International Traders Expo and IX Expo in London in June 2008.

Watch, Listen and Learn About:

* USA Empire of debt deceptions
* The U.S. economy has been so strong for so long, people all over the world have come to accept its currency as though it were real money.
* If so, what is real money? Who determined it to be real?
* Trading Globalization 3.0
* Is human herding behavior rational and in regular pattern to forecast?
* Examples of "herd" social mood analysis vs. conventional analysis from wall street and media.
* What causes economic boom/bust bubbles?
* GDP without Mortgage Equity Withdrawal

And much, much more...

How New US Regulations on the Financial Markets will Affect Currency Trading

Expert: Rob Booker, Currency Analyst at Piptopia
Moderator: Maud Gilson, Conference Manager

Summary:
The US Fed is going to be given new authority to regulate the financial industry. But what about the world of Forex? Could these regulations affect your currency dealer, and how? What we might see in the next 12 months could dramatically change the way we trade currency.