Group for active traders in Chicago. Meetup to discuss trading systems and strategies. Day traders, swing traders and long term investors welcome. Also covers multiple markets: stocks, futures, options and forex.

Welcome, Our club is all about becoming better self directed investors and traders. Our main focus is in educating ourselves on how to self manage investment accounts such as 401Ks and IRAs and  how to trade for a living. As our club matures, our original goal of providing support and of sharing our gained knowledge remains our tenet. Our most significant learning to date is that successful investing and trading requires hard work and that Financial Prosperity comes only with the proper unders …

Meet with other local floor and online traders (face to face or online to your PC through our state of the art webinar tools) who engage in futures, index's, stocks, commodities and forex trading. The goals is to create a supportive environment where all group members can share their ideas, learn something new and ultimately achieve success in their trading plan. Our group includes experienced local floor and online traders and newbie’s looking to start out on the right trading foot. We will …

If you are a trading educator and/or an experienced trader and would like to host a meetup, please email the organizer. The Chicago Stocks and Forex Traders Network was created with the purpose of gathering all people interested in starting or improving their stock or forex trading business. Yes, as a Market Trader, you are in business for yourself so one must treat it very much like a business and not a hobby. Which means being well educated in your craft and having a business plan (trading pla …

I started this group to provide interested IBD users a live-group setting resource to discuss the general stock market and stocks. This group will be organized based on using IBD principles and educational materials. This group primary focus will be on how to get the most out of Investors Business Daily's resources, books, newspapers, and online information. This is an opportunity to learn essential chart reading skills, to learn from each other's experience, and to keep current on market condit …

The goal of this group is to share trading ideas for securities, forex and futures markets that are suitable to build automated trading strategies. We would meet at various locations in Chicagoland (there are plenty of cafes to visit) over the weekend or in the evenings to share and brainstorm ideas. Bring your laptops, charts and ideas to share - good ones, and still under the development. We can help each other.

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This group is dedicated towards helping investors and traders meetup and share ideas. The meetup will be hosted by Simit Patel, founder of InformedTrades.com and ambassador of FXCM, a publicly traded foreign exchange trading broker. Simit will start things off by sharing the trades he placed over the past week as well as any major news headlines he thought were particularly important. Members are invited to share their trades, questions, or news items they think are discussion-worthy as well. A …

This is a private, weekly group that meets for the educational purpose of assisting individual traders to develop and perfect personalized trading strategies that are aligned with the individual's purposes and goals. This group is an extension of the monthly Chicago Trading Group (www.meetup.com/chicagotradinggroup) as an ongoing educational series designed to detail concepts presented on the monthly meeting. A subscription fee is required for admission to this group.

This is for anyone who has a passion for the stock market and has the desire to network with other like minded individuals.