Why the Ichimoku Kynko Hyo strategy is a trader’s best friend with John Yoon

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Hi everyone,

We are happy to announce that the speaker of the 2nd October Forex Group Meetup will be John Yoon, an active member of the group who many of you might already know. We are looking forward to know his insights and approach!

We will meet at our sponsor's headquarters IG for an hour of learning about Forex all together.

The group is lead and host by Chris Weston, Chief Market Strategist at IG Markets.

Why the Ichimoku Kynko Hyo strategy is a trader’s best friend

In John's presentation he will cover:

• Introduction to the Ichimoku indicator

• The simplest and naturally looking indicator

• The “Ideal” setup is one of the six Ichimoku setups

• Embedded Support/Resistance and Chikou line are key to define targets

• Risk/reward and managing position in application to Ideal strategy

• Getting wild: "Two timeframes" Ichimoku indicator

• Algo back-testing of the Ideal Ichimoku strategy

• List of the pre-selected resources to help you learn the indicator.

About John Yoon

John is retail trader who has gone through all phases that a typical market learner will undergo. From complete failure, account-blower and reader-of-all-the-books, to a steady money earner with using just one indicator on a chart. His professional career is in Software Development in the area of Financial Markets and Banking. John’s knowledge of programming and math allowed him to create a number of interesting automatic and semi-automatic trading algorithms that gave him an edge on the market. At the moment John is working on improving his quantitative algorithms and creating his own market models using machine learning.

About Chris Weston

Chris has had over fifteen years’ experience in the financial markets, working in both London and Australia and gaining unique insights into the global capital markets.

Having worked at Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch in London, Chris has held a variety of trading role in the forex, fixed income and equity markets. This has provided Chris with a strong understanding of the correlations and how interconnected global markets are and ultimately how a move in one asset class can have a strong impact in another. Chris has also been lucky enough to learn from some brightest and talented traders and fund managers London has to offer.

Chris joined IG in 2006 as an institutional trader, where he provided insight and opportunity to a range of institutional clients, as well as the wider media. Over the last three years however, Chris has moved across to the role of Chief market strategist, where he spends his time providing clients and the media with views and research on global markets, forex, fixed income and commodities. He is a regular on a range of television channels including CNBC, Bloomberg and Sky Business.

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