• Examining your current futures portfolio: Where are you missing opportunities in the commodities market that will significantly increase your returns?
• Uncovering liquidity developments and identifying the best sources for liquidity in today’s shifting market
• Open outcry vs. electronic trading: identifying current trends and their impact on your daily trades
• Analyzing the costs and benefits of alternative commodity products; how should they be structured with conventional commodities to increase returns in your portfolio?
• Determining how to measure the success of your commodity futures trades for long-term profit-generation

10:55 - Wednesday, May 14, 2008

	Randy Durie Principal Plimsoll Capital
	John Barun President Capital Markets Consulting
	Rolund P. Austrup President and CEO Integrated Managed Futures

• Comparing futures and options; where are opportunities for greater returns or risk management through the use of futures contracts?
• Understanding risk in today’s futures market and analyzing data to best price these derivatives
• Identifying futures trading and rebalancing strategies for the buy side to obtain greatest risk management
• Executing OTC or via the exchanges – which strategy is right for you?
• Working with FCMs, exchanges, and other technology partners to ensure the best payout of your futures trades in the long term

11:00 - Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Dr. Woody Brock President Strategic Economic Decisions Inc.

Even in today’s difficult market environment, it is possible to achieve consistently higher returns. By identifying structural changes in global markets, Dr. Brock teaches investors how to be “less wrong” than the market and exploit these changes to your advantage. With derivatives trading volume increasing among today’s drastically shifting markets, don’t miss this chance to learn from Dr. Brock how to minimize error in forecasting the future and invest in line with tomorrow’s structural changes.

11:35 - Tuesday, May 13, 2008