Francesc Riverola,
Hi everyone,
After considering many different options - we wanted to move ITC to London -, we finally decided to organize the ITC, our International Trading Conference, this year in BARCELONA again.
Behind this decision, the fact that this is FXstreet.com headquarters city, the lower costs, the originality of the location (and for sure the exoticism for some of you!), the know-how we have acquired etc.
We won’t change much the model of last year’s conference since feedback was excellent, but we will incorporate some of your suggestions as:
1. The ITC will be held during 3 working days (Wed- Fri) in October 2008 and will include speeches and live trading sessions as last year.
Speakers are not decided yet, but you’ll meet some of our regular collaborators and top experts of the market.
2. Live trading will be moved to mornings to take advantage of the higher activity of the market especially when it overlaps with US open
Unfortunately, fees will not be as low as last year’s…. but will surely stay attractive!
ITC 2007 was our first event and we had to test our capacity to organize something like this and the capacity of Barcelona to attract traders from all over the world.
The event was a success, but its numbers were much in red. This year our goal is to make break-even and later to come to make it profitable… even if ITC’s profitability is not an issue as our main goal is meeting our visitors once a year and having a great time all together.
This time we will offer different fee options as we did in 2007, but price range will move from €450 (for attendees of the ITC 2007) to €850 (ITC 08 fee + one year of Premium Membership).
Prices include entrance, speeches material, lunches and coffees.
I will keep you posted… much details need to be confirmed, but I just was excited to announce you that!
Don’t miss our 2008 event!
Francesc
Note: If you follow my blog you know that we also wanted to organize a FX B2B Event in London. We have contacted many players of the FX industry to get their opinion about the utility of such event.
All data gathered so far is confirming that is a worth to take bet, but we still need to gather a lot of information before taking a final decision.
I’ll keep you posted
Thats a GREAT decision, Barca is the best place to go ! Hope to be there again. Ron
The itc07 was very good. But personnaly if I didn’t have attended the 07 itc I would never consider paying 850€ for three days. I find this very much even with the premium thing added. For some people this represents a lott of money.
450€ for attendees of 07 is lower and I feel this could be worth the money.
I personally think that the prices may be putting of people who start with trading. Good traders will have the money but the starting often losing traders maybe not.
I wish you the best with the 2008 and I will be there.
Peter, your comment is enough important to be answered in a post. I´m going to do it right away.
Thanks
Francesc