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Video featuring CATA members talking about
trades they were considering getting into
has now been published

For CATA's next meeting on
Tuesday September 8, 2026 Steven Hatzakis
a Fintech expert and AI innovator
will be presenting to the group

A description of his talk
is posted at the bottom of this page

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September 8, 2026 Steven Hatzakis

Steven Hatzakis is a a Fintech expert and AI innovator

Steven will discuss how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is being used in finance. He will provide demonstrations, referencing content from StockBrokers.com and ForexBrokers.com, where he is employed, as well as an independent side project forex-gpt.ai where he runs personal experiments with AI that are part of a commercial offering to free and paid subscribers (note: these discussions may demonstrate trading setups but are not to be construed as trading advice, and are for educational and research purposes only). He will also discuss the pros/cons of using AI in trading and what traders should watch out for.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets AI agents connect directly to external data sources and tools.

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