NYC, StockTwits & the inevitable Wo Hop visit

• kevinmhughes
• February 19th, 2010

If people don’t already know, New York City is my favorite place in the entire world.  As my friend Jim Gobetz says “If you can’t get here, it doesn’t exist”.  The fact that just about every business, ranging from bakeries to the well hated banks, are always targeting NYC, if for anything, just to see if they can succeed.  As Donald Trump and other well known businessmen/women have said, NYC will eat you up and spit you out if you’re not paying attention.  That is true on every facet of life (from social, professional & even ethical).  That’s a challenge I will be taking head on in the near future.

February 14th was the first day of the 2010 MoneyShow Trader’s Expo ($EXPO10).  It brought together the elite traders of our time as well as the beginners looking to catch a whiff of some the talent that walked around them.  In the FOREX realm, there was Ashraf Laidi, who I believe can sell ice to an Eskimo after watching him present at his booth, Greg M (won’t butcher his last name) with a PHENOMENAL presentation, on the equity side we had the ability to watch Brian Shannon talk about how he trades.  You can’t get that sort of expertise at your finger tips unless you pay an obscene amount of money!

Or can you?

The answer is YES, YOU can.  Right here, right now in the StockTwits community.  I don’t need to go into detail as to why I am neck deep in the community that ranges from beginner traders to advanced traders, from equity analysts to forex analysts, from financial media anchors to WSJ editors to investor relations departments of major corporations…  The proof is in the pudding (or the stream in this case).  Sunday afternoon there were A LOT of StockTwits community members that descended upon the Big Apple from SnoopyJC, Raghee Horner, the California Girl Lydia Finkely, Brian Shannon & the must follow, fashionably late, Derek Hernquist.  We all met at dinner with the StockTwits brains Phil Pearlman, Leigh Drogen & Juston Petirno (I probably spelled his last name wrong), the other ‘New Yorkers’ like SMB Capital & the ever so happy Doug Estadt.

The dinner was like the ‘Who’s Who’ of StockTwits.  The most asked question I heard being chattered around the table was “What time frame is that?” If SnoopyJC was asked the question I think he may have answered the 100 year chart where I would answer with the 1 minute chart (I think SnoopyJC is going to live forever because that’s how long he’ll hold a position FOREVER)…  And the statement I heard the most was “I don’t understand FOREX”…  The Expo itself was great, I got to meet (in person) Joe Donohue & Anne Marie… GREAT PEOPLE!!! Monday night at the StockTwits Tweetup in SoHo at Antartica brought out even the stylish of us like Christian Gagnon, Jim Gobetz & Josh Brown.  That was a GREAT night!!  Enough said.

The StockTwits community is growing by leaps and bounds.  It’s expanding quicker than most people thought it was going to; the community is strong, real time and most importantly, trustworthy!  You can’t find another community out there that takes the time to nurture what it has and give access to the elite of the elite for FREE!  The article by TechCrunch and also ReformedBroker speaks VOLUMES about the quality of the community…  You can learn a lot and enhance your trading…  It’s enhanced mine ten fold!  If you need to bounce trade ideas or bust someones butt, there’s always someone listening.  It’s just getting better!  Hence the new website!

If you’re not on the desktop (which is free), you’re losing money because you’re not taking advantage of the expertise.  If you missed this Trader’s Expo, there will be more, go to them, learn from the community.  Let’s face it, most of the speakers at these Expos, are StockTwits contributers!  LEARN FROM THEM like I have.

Unfortunately, I was not able to make it down to Wo Hop…  But rest assured, when I come back to the Rome (NYC), I will be there, with my bib on and ear plugs for when the waiters yell at me…

Tickers: expo, stocktwits, traders

blog comments powered by Disqus