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As I continue to think long and hard about how Trading Post can better serve its traders, I think of some pretty crazy ideas sometimes. More often than naught, the biggest obstacle I come across is time. I would love to pursue every idea that I think of or that is shared with me, but it's impossible.

So, I do the best that I can.

In December I elected to become the organizer of the Vancouver Forex Trading Meetup group. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Meetup.com, it's a website that brings people together for seemingly any popular to obscure interest.

True to blindness to some of those in our society, however, in the Vancouver market alone there are two other similarly sized Forex trading groups. One is a marketing group for FreedomRocks, which I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole because it purports to be a solution for EVERYBODY, when there truly isn't a universal solution for everybody.

The other is an independent marketing representative of a another Forex company called FX Innovations, which was based in Vancouver until a recent address change to a more hospitable tax situation in Florida.

My purpose for leading this group is not to make it a "Trading Post" group. The vision is to make it a top 3 Forex Trading Meetup group in North America by the end of the year. So I hope to take it from it's current membership of 74 to over 200 by the end of the year.

The purpose is to bring traders together and share information and experiences openly. We will invite guest presenters (as we did in February when we had Lewis Evans) and alternate that with months where we have our group members present. Trading is oftentimes a lonely endeavor, but it doesn't have to be.

What this experience will do for me as a partner at Trading Post is give me a first-hand feel for the trader experience first-hand.

It's been fun so far, and I'm looking forward to our third Meetup next Tuesday. If you're in the Vancouver area, I would encourage you to be part of our group and join our meetings. Even if you can't attend all meetings we're always uploading resource files that you'll have access to as a member of the group.

The best part is it doesn't cost anything to become a member.

I have enough topics to blog on about 10 different topics today, so I have to type and transcribe as quickly as I can.

Today I attended an all-day Search Engine Marketing workshop, and it's great to always get additional insight to help me do what I love better.

While we collectively work to do things better and deliver relevant products and services to you, there is also energy here to try to figure out how to get the word out in a more effective way.

I also learned that Canadians spend, on average, the most time online of anyone in the world at 43 hours a month. I'm one of those who skews that number far, far up.