Traders Expo 2008 Trip Reports

[Shreddog]

Quote from marketsurfer:




he is top ranked on covestor.com AND 12 of his students are in the top 20.... sounds pretty sweet to me.

surf

Give it a rest already man. Tim had a booth at the Las Vegas Traders Expo. That pretty much says it all. His rankings on snakeoil.com don't mean jack.

On a more pleasant note, it was good meeting everyone and a great weekend overall. And as mentioned the expo was even lamer this year. I didn't find any booths worth stopping at. Usually I find a couple.

EDIT: I DID stop at a booth. Esignal was there but they were unable to answer my question. To be fair it was about the API which was probably too much to ask of someone in the booth.

 

[NewTrader]

Quote from Szeven:
Idayo was my favorite, that guys been making 50% a year for 10 years
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Does anyone in ET subscribe IDAYO and really making 50% a year constantly?
Thanks.

 

[Szeven]

Quote from NewTrader:

Does anyone in ET subscribe IDAYO and really making 50% a year constantly?
Thanks.

Not sure, but they certainly could. I was so happy the guy was willing to take a few days out of his billionaire playboy lifestyle just to bless me with his system, and all for only 3k! I only work 15 mins a week and am already up 47% this month! wow!

 

[Humpy]

Quote from Szeven:

. Idayo was my favorite, that guys been making 50% a year for 10 years, Tim Sykes should just go sign up there, work 15 mins a week, and start working what hes got left at 50% a year. Dual income baby!

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Literally that means he halved his account every year for 10 years !
Some trader - but it takes all kinds

 

[guy990opl]

Been to the Las Vegas expo last year 2007, it was interesting.

Maybe I keep on learning stuff, and the more I go to such events the less I learn, but the 2008 Las Vegas expo was totally lame.

I only went to two of the Thinkorswim classes, compared to last year there were 1/10 of the people attending and so there were very few events.

As a matter of fact the facility this time was much smaller, but big enough to accomodate the 4 cats who showed up.

In my opinion, this year the market wiped out many people and since now they have no money to trade, most " traders " did not show up.


I might go to the expo in San Bernardino since I live in LA, but the more I go to such events the less I learn.

The reason why I enjoy the Thinkorswim event is becase it is one of the few places where you have a professional trader ( Tom Sosnoff ) giving a free lecture, but all other events are about someone with no track record trying to sell you some useless financial product.

Also going to Vegas with your wife, if you have one, is lame, just my opinion.

I wonder if I am the only one who feels this way or if other people actually really get something out of " trader expos. "

 

[Joab]

Quote from uptik2000:

I would have loved to have met that group. That must have been a good time.

Uh, did you say, "brought wives to Vegas"? :eek:

tiki, your a daddy now no more Vegas fun for you

I agree, I would have loved to meet that group as well.

 

[SuperVolatility]

I was surprised to see Tim Sykes, his mom gave me a free copy of his book which I read half way, it reads like a novel. Timmay said something about he is making more money selling DVD's and it's more stable/continued income than that roller coaster trading.

 

[Robert Weinstein]

I went to the expo planning on spending Friday and Saturday.

I would have loved to meet up with some of the ETers as I went alone.

It was my first expo and while I didn't bother to go on Saturday as I think I covered everything on Friday it was worth going.

Looking forward to going to NYC in Feb

 

[SuperVolatility]

A few noteworthy things for me were:
-Listented to Jon Najarian - I don't trade options much but his strateguy review was good, plus he is a natual good speaker.
-Spent time in Infinity Future's speakers room, many new to me Robert Hoffman, TheTradingZone, INcomeTrader pair.

It was worth it. Took family to Hoover Dam on Saturday.

 

[marketsurfer]

Quote from 1Reason:

I went to the expo planning on spending Friday and Saturday.

I would have loved to meet up with some of the ETers as I went alone.

It was my first expo and while I didn't bother to go on Saturday as I think I covered everything on Friday it was worth going.

Looking forward to going to NYC in Feb

Spending more than one day at these things is painful.

In fact, any more than 3 hours is an exercise in mental survival.