In this extended opening session, we will offer a complete overview of ETF trading, including how to get best execution for all of your ETF trades. This interactive workshop will examine the differences between trading traditional securities and ETFs, including evaluating underlying liquidity, understanding the creation/redemption process and identifying the best partners in minimizing transaction costs.

The panel will go into practical, useful detail on evaluating the true "fair" price of any ETF, how to work around low underlying liquidity at the basket level, and real-world strategies for assessing and limiting market impact from large orders. Investors will leave this session better equipped to use ETFs in any portfolio, regardless of market conditions. Additional topics covered will include:

• Real issues in ETF liquidity: concentration, mispricing and bad data
• Level 2 quotes and screen-based trading
• Block trading and true ETF liquidity

Options are often used by investors to capture noncorrelated returns or to boost income. This session will help investors put ETFs and ETF options to work within their portfolio. We will provide a complete introduction on how to use ETFs and ETF options to add noncorrelated returns to a portfolio. Walk away with ideas you can use today, including:

• Covered calls, strangles and straddles
• Volatility arbitrage
• Trading signals and strategies

Leveraged and inverse ETFs are often portrayed as poor choices for long-term investors. Sophisticated traders, however, know that they offer one of the most efficient means of capturing short-term market moves. This panel will consider: how leveraged and inverse ETFs can be used correctly in simple and effective trading strategies. Topics include:

• How to incorporate leveraged/inverse ETFs into trading strategies
• Making path-dependency work for you
• Pairs trades, options overlays and other approaches

Tom Dorsey is a legendary technical analyst and one of the foremost investors and traders of our time. In this lunch keynote session, Dorsey will explain how technical analysis and technical trends can help mitigate risk for ETF investors. Topics include:

• The foundations of technical analysis
• How technical analysis applies specifically to ETFs
• Trading ideas for today's markets

In this unique panel, the world's leading high-frequency traders will explain how HFT and ETF arbitrage strategies work. Understand what's going on behind the curtain and how HFT impacts you as an investor and trader. Topics include:

• The risk/reward trade-off of algorithmic trading
• How regulations could change the HFT marketplace
• Flash crash 2.0: myth or reality?

Volatility-linked ETFs and ETNs have been one of the fastestgrowing corners of the exchange-traded-product market over the past year. Do these funds give investors the returns they expect? More fundamentally, how can you best capture and play volatility trends in the marketplace? Topics include:

• Evaluating VIX-linked ETPs
• Volatility-based hedging and overlay strategies
• Beyond VIX: non-equity volatility trading strategies

In today's volatile environment, risk-on/risk-off investors are increasingly turning to ETFs to implement strategic, macro-driven trading strategies. This 50-minute panel discussion will feature leading advisors explaining how they take in macroeconomic, political and news-related data and use them to generate effective trading strategies using ETFs.

With interest rates at record lows, QE3 in full flower and the U.S. facing a fiscal cliff, finding and executing the best fixed-income strategy is a high priority for 2013. This special "In Focus" session will feature leading minds on fixed-income ETFs and liquidity discussing how investors can use ETFs effectively to navigate the fixed-income challenges that lie ahead. Topics include:

• Do ETFs work in fixed income, and what are the risks?
• How can you source fixed-income ETF liquidity (and get a fair price)?
• Where can you find income and total return today?
• What special challenges exist in nontraditional markets (emerging markets debt, preferred securities, etc.)?