The Singapore CMT chapter recently held their meeting on 7th May. Despite their busy schedules, Gina and Ron both agreed to be the keynote speakers for our meeting.

Due to the limited capacity of the meeting venue, the number of registrants had to be limited and slots were taken up fast. However, due to overwhelming requests, further logistical planning and coordination was needed.

With the help of one of our member volunteers, Chua Wei Ren, we managed to get more seats to accommodate our attendees.

With our speakers and some members arriving earlier, they took the time to catch up with each other and also introduced themselves and what they did on a daily basis at work.

Very promptly, Jake Chow, our chapter co-chair, kick started the event by giving a short welcome speech and also introduced both our speakers. Gina shared first, focusing on different models built by her and her team at Bloomberg. While she dropped a lot of interesting insights that evening, what particularly stood out for me was her sharing that she and her team are starting to use AI to develop a way of tracking transcript sentiment. Sentiment tracking is not new in the discipline of Technical Analysis. It started out mostly by looking at the greed and fear levels of the broad market. Over time this shifted to tracking trending words either on Google or FinTweets.

However, to apply sentiment tracking to earning transcripts is definitely a fresh and novel idea! Despite being on the road for quite some time and having already spent a full day presenting at Bloomberg’s Asset Allocation day, Gina’s passionate and insightful sharing with the Singapore Chapter could be felt by the attendees.

Ron shared next, his topic being ” Seeking Alpha in a VUCA World ”. Ron’s combined his expertise in providing advisory and mental performance, giving our attendees a fresh twist in approaching the markets. He started off with a cheeky question on ‘Nature’ versus ‘Nurture’. As his sharing went deeper, he also shared with us the importance of building a mental framework and along with using a checklist to help us keep track of our mental state throughout one’s analysis and trading process.

While behavioral finance is generally a new topic in the academia world, cognitive biases are definitely not new to the practice of Technical Analysis. Yet, the mental framework model is one that is rarely talked about and Ron definitely helped us approach the topic in an easy manner.

At the end of the sharing session, the attendees furthered their questions and discussions over dinner and drinks that were catered for.

If not for the fact that the office lights were starting to turn off, I am sure, the sharing and networking session would have gone well into the night.All throughout, our attendees were attentive and engrossed in the sharings by both Gina and Ron, as evidenced by the photos taken. Further, there were multiple requests made for the content of our speakers to be made available.At the end of a long work-day, I left the chapter meeting feeling more refreshed and energised. And I have the passion and energy of our speakers and members to thank for that!

Thank you Gina and Ron once again for sharing so passionately your insights. Thank you to the Singapore CMT Chapter committee for being so eager in helping and making this meeting a success.

I definitely am looking forward to the next one!

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