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ICIDRIS CALLOWAY
Headshot placeholder: the portrait monogram, for listings and screens.
Biography

Bio in three lengths

Use the short one for printed programmes, the medium one for event apps and the long one for press and the introduction from the stage.

Short

50 words

Idris Calloway is a trading educator who speaks at expos, seminars and broker education days. His talks cover risk, market structure, process and trading psychology, without trade calls. He has appeared on xx stages a year since xxxx and is known for sending rooms home with a written plan.

Medium

150 words

Idris Calloway is a plain-spoken trading educator and speaker who has spent more than xx years helping new traders slow down. He speaks at regional trading expos, seminars, workshops and webinars across the Gulf, the Levant and North Africa, on xx stages a year to rooms of up to x,xxx people. His four signature talks cover risk and position sizing, how a forex price is made, building a one-page trading plan, and the psychology of losing streaks. Organisers book him for one reason above others: he teaches from the stage and does not sell from it. Every talk ends with a single slide that sends the audience to free slides, notes and recordings the same evening. Idris is also an introducing broker for a partner broker, a relationship he discloses on stage and in writing. He lives between two cities, answers his own booking enquiries and replies within x working days.

Long

300 words

Idris Calloway is a trading educator and speaker whose talks are built on one idea: the traders who last are rarely the cleverest in the room, they are the most careful. For more than xx years he has taken that idea onto regional trading expo stages, into seminar rooms and broker education days, and onto evening webinars for people who trade after work.

He came to teaching sideways. After xx years in operations roles around the financial industry and his own share of expensive lessons as a retail trader, he began running small evening classes on position sizing. The classes filled, then moved to larger rooms, and then to the expo circuit, where he appears on xx stages a year across the Gulf, the Levant and North Africa, to audiences of up to x,xxx.

His four signature talks cover risk and position sizing (The Boring Edge), market structure (Who Is on the Other Side of Your Trade?), process (A Plan That Fits on One Page) and trading psychology (Your Worst Trade Is Already Scheduled). Each is offered as a keynote, a hands-on workshop, a panel contribution or a webinar, and each is taught in plain language with simulated examples and no trade calls.

Organisers book Idris because he teaches from the stage and does not sell from it. There is no product pitch in any talk. The last slide carries a single QR code that sends the room to free slides, notes and recordings, so attendees leave with something useful and organisers keep a clean programme. He is an introducing broker for a partner broker and says so on stage and in writing, with the risk warning the broker requires.

Idris also writes short field notes for his newsletter, runs a post-talk debrief for audiences who want to go further, and answers his own booking enquiries.

Topics

What Idris speaks on

  • Risk and position sizing
  • What leverage really does
  • How a forex price is made
  • Liquidity and trading sessions
  • Writing a one-page trading plan
  • Keeping and reviewing a journal
  • Losing streaks and tilt
  • Choosing a broker carefully

He does not give trade calls, signals, price targets or product recommendations from any stage.

Formats

How he appears

  • Keynote
  • Workshop
  • Webinar
  • Panel
  1. The Boring Edge — 40–50 min keynote · 2.5 hr workshop
  2. Who Is on the Other Side of Your Trade? — 30–45 min keynote · 60 min webinar
  3. A Plan That Fits on One Page — 2–3 hr workshop · 90 min webinar
  4. Your Worst Trade Is Already Scheduled — 35–45 min keynote · 50 min panel
Technical rider

A one-page rider

Short on purpose. If your venue cannot do something here, say so: there is almost always a workaround.

Microphone
Headset or lapel. A handheld works for panels and Q&A only.
Screen
16:9 projector or LED wall, HDMI at the lectern, plus a confidence monitor facing the stage.
Clicker
Idris brings his own; a spare from the venue is welcome.
Tech check
x minutes on the day, ideally in the break before the slot.
Slides
Sent as PDF and 16:9 deck x working days before the event.
Q&A
A roaming mic, and the QR closing slide left on screen through questions.
Workshops
Tables of x to x, printed worksheets (Idris supplies the file), pens.
Recording
Welcome for the organiser's own channels; a copy shared with Idris.
Booking terms

Fees and terms

Fees depend on format, travel and how many sessions you book together. Charity and student events: ask.

Speaking fees are paid by the organiser. Idris does not accept fees from exhibitors to change what he says on stage.

Keynote
from $x,xxx
Workshop (half day)
from $x,xxx
Panel
from $xxx
Webinar
from $xxx
Travel
Flights and x nights' hotel, booked by the organiser
Deposit
xx% on confirmation, balance x days after the event
Cancellation
Free up to xx days before; deposit kept after that
Reply to enquiries
Within x working days
The last slide

What your audience sees last

Every talk closes on the same slide: a QR code and a short address for people who cannot scan. It leads to a light page with today's slides, the debrief and, last, the partner broker with its disclosure.

  • Slides download without a sign-up
  • Loads in a moment on weak venue Wi-Fi
  • Disclosure and risk warning on the same screen

See the page the slide leads to

Sample closing slide. The QR pattern is decorative and encodes nothing; on a live deck it points to this site's own stage page.