Due to Corona Virus outbreak, we are all finding new way to cope with it. Here is the top 12 forex and financial webinars we found relevant to your market knowledge upgrade in April 2020. Thanks to Interactive Brokers for cooperating with partners to host those wonderful learning sessions. Hope you find fruitful for your trading journey.

1. Webinar #1: Trading Micros at CME Group

The micro E-mini equities was the most successful CME Group product launch ever. Moreover, other micro Products at CME Group have enjoyed significant volume and open interest gains.

Join Dave Lerman in this 45 minute webinar as he discusses:

• The entire micro product suite at CME Group including micro Emini equities, micro FX and metals.

• Micros vs. ETFs—which trades more? Comparing the two vehicles.

• Hedging mutual fund and ETF portfolios with micros.

• Trading Oil stocks/ETFs vs. trading futures.

• Spread trading strategies with micros.

• Precision scaling in/out of positions.

• Contract highlights, liquidity and much more…

Register Link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6810026882793581067?source=eml

2. Webinar #2: Tax Deadline Moved To July 15 What Traders Should Do Next

The Treasury Department moved the April 15 tax deadline to July 15, 2020, thereby postponing tax filings and tax payments for all taxpayers. Congress has pending legislation that provides for further tax relief, and traders eligible for trader tax status (TTS) may be able to benefit. For example, the CARES Act unwinds many TCJA loss limitations for 2018, 2019, and 2020, including reauthorizing 5-year NOL carrybacks. TTS traders with Section 475 ordinary losses can benefit. Join CPAs Robert A. Green and Darren Neuschwander of GreenTraderTax.com to learn about these developments and how you should proceed with your 2019 tax filings and 2020 tax elections.

Register Link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3397931140144867597?source=eml

3. Webinar #3: COVID19 Policy Trajectories From Here

This webinar is hosted with the aim to show you how to make sense of rapidly shifting policy trajectories amid a pandemic.

Register Link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3397931140144867597?source=eml

4. Webinars #4: Option Strategies for a Bear Market

How has your portfolio performed during the recent market turbulence? Investors have had to grapple with continued uncertainty over global virus contagion, combined with the black swan events in the oil market, bringing yields on the ten year to historic lows. Volatility is at it’s highest in several years. How can you navigate these turbulent times? Join Gareth Ryan, Founder & Managing Director of IUR Capital, as he looks at how investors could position their portfolio in expectation of further market declines. Gareth will discuss how investors could consider the use of option strategies, which seek to capitalise on market declines, with an emphasis on risk management. Focus will be on the use of broad market index options. A Q&A session will follow.

Register Link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/910013403285639436?source=eml

5. Webinar #5: Bull or Bear: What are Your Options?

In this session, Edward Modla of OIC will look at how investors can incorporate single and multi-leg option strategies when they have a particular view about the direction of a stock or ETF. Topics include:

• Buying Calls and Puts

• Vertical Spreads

• Bullish strategies - short put spread vs. long calls

• Bearish strategies - short call spread vs. long puts

• Selecting strike prices and expiration dates

• Theta

• Implied Volatility

Register Link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3872544129128304908?source=eml

6. Webinar #6: Seeking Income with FTSE MIB Index Options

How has your portfolio performed during the recent market turbulence? Investors have had to grapple with continued uncertainty over global virus contagion, combined with the black swan events in the oil market, bringing yields on the ten year to historic lows. Volatility is at it’s highest in several years, with the Italian FTSEMIB Index deep in a bear market. How can you navigate these turbulent times? Join Gareth Ryan, Founder & Managing Director of IUR Capital, as he looks at how investors could position their portfolio in expectation of further market declines. Gareth will discuss how investors could consider the use of option strategies, which seek to capitalise on market declines, with an emphasis on risk management. Focus will be on the use of FTSEMIB index options. A Q&A session will follow.

Register Link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2105450823515845387?source=eml

7. Webinar #7: Research Asset Allocation: Incorporating Data Driven Indicator

A robust asset allocation process is crucial to withstand turbulent markets and optimize returns in the long term. In this session, strategists at Ned Davis Research and Covenant Capital will share their current global economic outlooks and how to construct an ETF based asset allocation portfolio using data-driven macro indicators and signals.

Register Link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6810026882793581067?source=eml

8. Webinar #8: How Automated Trading Can Help Improve your Portfolio?

Between the increasing presence of social media and the accelerated dissemination of information, there are more factors influencing markets than ever before. This onslaught of communication makes it both more difficult and more important for traders to stay disciplined and stick to their trading plans. In this webinar we want to discuss how automation can help by following the traders’ plan round-the-clock without the influence of human emotion or bias.

Register Link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8884243473859997197?source=eml

9. Webinar #9: The Upcoming Driving Season and the Fundamental Forces affecting Prices

Gasoline refiners are preparing for the 2020 summer gasoline driving season. This webinar will review current gasoline prices and the state of fundamental supply/demand data affecting gasoline prices. Comparisons with previous summers' conditions and the resulting price behaviors will be discussed.

Register Link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8468998613951050508?source=eml

10. Webinar #10: The Holy Grail of Factor Investing

In this webinar Milind Sharma of QuantZ/QMIT will address the growing mainstream importance of Factor investing:

• How to use a spanning set of smart betas/ factors to express any view on Equities

• Understanding the Regime dependence/ cyclicality of Smart Betas &

• How to deploy Risk ON/ OFF factors to express your market view

• The success of the Regime based Factor investing amidst the Covid Crash of 2020

Register Link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/169867255552676620?source=eml

11. Webinar #11: Why Volatility is Not Yet an Asset Class - How to Find Sustainable Yield and Tail Risk Opportunities in the Options Market

S&P 500 Index option-based volatility indexes have untenable risk-return profiles. These volatility indexes are not designed with consideration of important real-world risk characteristics of options and fail to represent volatility as a differentiated asset-class with relevance to the long-term utility of investors. Implications of the S&P 500 Index return distribution on the profit and loss (P&L) distribution of a directionally hedged option position are presented. The ensuing five cardinal characteristics of options on S&P 500 Index, central to designing viable volatility investment strategies, are enumerated.

Register Link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7181077972175531533?source=eml

12. IBKR Stock Yield Enhancement Program Expansion

IBKR provides clients the opportunity to generate additional income on fully-paid shares in their account by lending those shares to IBKR in exchange for a portion of the fees borrowers are willing to pay. IBKR has just expanded the Stock Yield Enhancement Program to include European and Hong-Kong stocks, complementing the US and Canadian stocks. Each day that your stock is on loan, you will be paid interest on the cash collateral posted to your account for the loan based on market rates. Upon enrollment, Program activities are managed in their entirety by IBKR and require no actions on the part of participants.

IBKR Stock Yield Enhancement Program Expansion Thomas Herzig, Interactive Brokers April 30, 2020 11:00am ET

Register Link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1103569230728021517?source=eml

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