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 …

We are all graduates of the Online Trading Academy. The purpose of this site is to keep fellow graduates in contact with one another to provide support and accountability. We all have one thing in common: We decided to spend a lot of money to invest in ourselves to increase our skills as traders.It would be nice to be connected to like minded individuals to share ideas, spur one another on, have fun and just "do life together"

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 …

The purpose of this group is educate on and share trading and investment concepts. Each month we will start with a welcoming meet and greet which will be followed by a guest presenter. After the guest presenter we will do a town hall style market review from both a technical and fundamental perspective. As our meet up will grow and we call upon our connections in the industry to attract well known guest speakers to address our group. Meet with, other local people who engage in short-term tra …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

Are you interested in learning about options, futures, and options on futures. This group will help connect new traders to experienced traders, and experienced traders to others with experience and professionals. If you are interested in trading options and not being bored, this is the group for you. This group will help traders get serious about options and futures.

Invest in Options with an emphasis on Options. We will discuss option trade techniques, tools, analysis, and finding stocks. Discussions will include margin requirements, trade probabilities, and using options as an income stream.

The Chicago Rebel Craft League is a meetup group organized to inspire women who love arts and crafts of all kinds and have different interests and passions to get together to create, share, talk and learn about art... If you'd like to get together to craft, get inspired, and learn from others with a DIY aesthetic, then this group is for you! We will have open studio time where you can just come, hang out, create and have fun, and more specific classes where we will do projects together. Ideall …

HI, my name is Lynne and I am a junkie, an ART JUNKIE. I started this group to meet and create with other women artists who are "junkies" like myself. Ever want to try an art medium or make a craft project, but didn't have all the supplies, or didn't have the confidence to do it alone? West Suburban Art Junkies is a meetup group where women can be inspired, can create and share their art. Each meetup will feature a project workshop that we will do together from start to finish, talk, laugh, lear …

We are a group of players looking for more people interested in learning and playing the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. Don't know how to play, not a problem. Want to learn how to play, come out and we will happily teach you. We have lots of new players who have just began learning the game with in the last year.

This is a group that gets together to discuss investments and the week's Market activity. It's open to individual investors looking to discuss investments, provide their insights and learn from the insights of others.

Foreign Currency Exchange (Forex) Traders helping on another.

Meet, mingle and trade yarns with local knitters! Come to a Knitters Meetup and have fun comparing patterns, sharing techniques and trading tips on stitches, sweaters and mittens. I want to get a group of knitters of all experience levels together in the Logan Square, Wicker Park, and Bucktown neighborhoods. Let's meet up at coffee shops, our apartments or wherever and get stitching!

Begginers and expierenced investors. Live charting, market update and health, group discussion of current movers and trends. Guest speakers. Open forums. We are open for new ideas!

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

The Brazilian American Chamber of Commerce of Illinois (BACCIL) is an international association committed to enhancing bilateral cooperation and promoting both trade and investment between Brazil and organizations and individuals in the State of Illinois. The BACCIL Chamber is an advocate for business, actively supporting and promoting business between IL and Brazil. The Chamber offers a variety of networking events, marketing opportunities, publications, educational seminars, trade and business …

This group is for Chicago-area Web and Mobile Designers, Developers, Information Architects, Usability Experts, UX Designers, Web Producers, etc. - anyone involved in the designing, developing, programming and implementation of web sites and mobile applications. Sorry, but since this group is about meeting face to face every month, so only people residing in the Chicago area will be admitted. At our meetings we'll network with others in the industry; compare the latest tools and trends, theories …

Do you ever desire to become a more elegant communicator? Do you seek to be the #1 champion in your professional field? Or do you finally want to hone your SOFT skills (people skills) and ultimately communicate your hard skills at their best? Have you ever wondered when people say: "Your hard skills will get you the interview and your soft skills will get you the job?" Fortunately we've heart that NLP* has already helped millions of people achieve greater success, increase confidence, enrich rel …

We meet to talk about Bitcoin.

Want to enjoy DELICIOUS meals!?Discover NEW Restaurants!? Make new FRIENDS!? JOIN US! It's a big dinner table and all are welcome! So many delicious foods, great people to meet, & cool places to see, let’s go! If that's not enough the meals are all discounted! Our FUN DINING EVENTS are for ALL BUDGETS in Chicago, Burbs, & Beyond! Chicago Vegetarians: For health, environment, or animal rights find a new great place to dine, trade tips, share recipes and meet others. Chicago Singles Dining: Meet o …

This group was created for makeup artists, hair stylists, photographers, skincare lovers or anyone who loves the beauty idustry and would like to learn more about it in a less formal setting. Our topics will range from  the basic how to of makeup and hair to live photo shoots, working on a set ,bridal  seminars,  etc.. I'm a  trainer and recruiter for a prestige skincare company and a Chicago based freelance makeup artist with 15 years experience. I abslolutley love what I do and wanted to share …

The Startup Trebuchet Entrepreneurs’ Clinics create environments to explore the challenges of securing the best position in launching and maintaining a business. The groups are purposefully kept small, with 10 – 20 participants, to allow for in-depth discussion of actual issues. These are not lectures, but rather highly interactive sessions. Subjects range from entity formation, establishing co-founder agreements, protecting intellectual property and trade secrets, business assumption validati …

Northside Wine Collection Club is an established form of alternative investment that can offer impressive returns. The wine market is based upon simple supply and demand economics. Bordeaux has the most stable financial market of all wine producing regions, while in each decade only 3-4 vintages out of every 10 have wines of a high enough quality for investment purposes. A chateau can only produce a unique and finite amount of wine each year. As this is happening the wine is maturing and becomin …