Trader Meetups (Part 1)

After one week away on an awe-inspiring vacation to the Caribbean, I opened my e-mail to the subject line “Join 81 Power Traders at ‘Meet & Greet/ Business Card Exchange.'”  Such is the inspiration for this blogging mini-series.  In the posts that follow, I will discuss numerous concepts in hopes that at the end of the road, everything will converge on a few robust ideas that constitute optionScam.com.

I will begin by introducing meetups.  As stated on its web site:

> Meetup is the world’s largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for
> anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up
> face-to-face. More than 9,000 groups get together in local communities each day,
> each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities.

The “Meet & Greet” invitation arrived courtesy of Power Traders Investment Group:  a meetup to which I currently belong.  I first learned about Meetup.com years ago through Investors Business Daily, which has devoted resources to marketing itself through a network of local meetups in different cities across the country (emphasis mine; please remember the exact wording).

One reason [stock/option] trading is a very difficult proposition is the social isolation traders often experience.  This originally made the prospect of networking with other traders through [Meetup] groups very promising.  Until 2007, I practiced as a pharmacist, which never offered any time for a dull moment.  Suddenly with full-time trading, I had nary a wayward sound in my physical space to distract me from the computer screen.

Five years later, I now find the prospect of [Meetup] groups more aligned with optionScam.com.  In my next post I will begin to explain why.