PipStop

Well, get ready because I have a vast stream of thoughts right now, and I'm sure it will result in back-to-back-to-back-to ... well a few separate blog posts, anyway.

Getting to the positively negative thing.

I was on Facebook last night, where I was busy creating a separate profile so as not to mingle all my personal friends with trading world. I still have my name there but the full listing is Samuel Araki-tpfs, and there is a Trading Post logo as the picture.

We started a Trading Post Community group awhile back which was a closed group, but I'm going to create another one here later this week that will be open to all.

The unfortunate thing to me was in wading through the hundreds and hundreds of "Forex" groups, I can count the number of useful ones on one hand. The others are pretty worthless, and that gets those under educated sucked in and down the wrong path - because there is NO easy money in trading - despite the fact that there is a group billing itself as the "Easy Money" group.

And what has happened is the same people post on every wall, it seems, their pitch. Good for them, but what's good for traders? Surely not the cesspool (one of my favorite words - for some odd reason) of garbage Forex groups on Facebook.

More and more there are worthless pitches online. The easy thing is none of us really need to get our crap filter out if we understand that there is no "easy" path in trading consistently.

Sheez. I can't stand a) garbage, and b) people advocating "their" way as the "only" way to success.

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Getting back to social networking to finish.

It's something that I've personally been very bullish about for the past couple of years.

I have a LinkedIn Profile, although I've been meaning to fill it out with more details. I have, as I mentioned above, created a Facebook profile for the trading world - so now I join the 2 Facebook profile club (that isn't against Facebook rules is it?). I also have a Twitter account, which I have been playing with and will probably share in the coming months on PipStop.

I am also the organizer of the Vancouver Forex Meetup group, which is a testing environment of sorts for me to see what traders are looking for, why they're not successful as they could be, and why they are.

What these website do for me is keep me in tune with technology and people. And lo and behold, trading is made up of technology and people. It's finding the relevant aspects of both and helping to create solutions that I love.

I also author about six other blogs, and I've updated 4 of them already this week. And I'm not bragging. I just love to write.

And no, I do have a balance in my life and none of the others are trading related.

What social websites are you involved with?

And please, MySpace is so, yesterday.