The Chicago Black Professionals Meetup is a group primarily made up of men and women over the age of 21 here in the Chicago area whom share an interest in ethnic heritages rooted in the African diaspora. We come from broadly diverse educational, professional, and social backgrounds, but we have a common interest: to come together for social networking. We strive to promote social connections between our members, and to promote a healthy and free exchange of information and ideas between the memb …

Are YOU ready to "Click 'n Connect"? Meet fellow Real Estate Buyers and Investors near you! The purpose of this group is to FIND MONEY & CREATE WEALTH while we explore ways to invest in distressed (foreclosures, pre foreclosures, bankruptcies) and other delinquent properties. Such properties provide excellent returns on initial investment, if carefully selected. Like minded real investors will get together and discuss strategies to invest in such properties. The key to achieving your financial …

Thank you for taking the time to learn more about our currency trading group. We hope it will serve as a great starting point if you are new to currency trading, in addition help advanced traders share ideas and techniques regarding the currency market. This group also gives us the opportunity to expose others to the currency market, and bring awareness to it as an alternative asset class. The Chicago Currency Trading group will be lead by Saul Shaoul, CME Group Floor Member, Trader and Trading  …

“You are one connection away from being able to change your life.” Think about that. Whatever it is you want in life, someone has or will be able to get for you. Knowledge, power, love, “stuff”… someone has it. You just have to figure out how you can help them get what they want in return for getting what you want. And that's what this Meetup.com group is about - Networking with others and seeing how we can help each other out. Key Concept Networking is simply that... a Business Networking …

Each month we will feature segmented discussions on three topics: Beer – We will feature a beer style with varying commercial and (when available) homebrewed samples. We will also cover the beer style’s history, ingredients, brewing process, and suggested food pairings. Samples will be served throughout the entire Summit session. We may pair the appetizer with the beer style when available. Financial – We will address a topic dealing in the areas personal finance, insurance, and investments. Spe …

This group will meet to study and understand Quantitative topics in financial engineering. Typically this group will be working through a chapter each month from a well known book in quantitative finance. However, this group is by no means an academic only group. Some of the group members will form organizations to try out the strategies studied in the real world (By actually pooling capital together and forming an investment club or joint venture). Topics that will be discussed: Volatility, …

Welcome, Our club is all about becoming better self directed investors and traders. Our main focus is in educating ourselves on how to self manage investment accounts such as 401Ks and IRAs and  how to trade for a living. As our club matures, our original goal of providing support and of sharing our gained knowledge remains our tenet. Our most significant learning to date is that successful investing and trading requires hard work and that Financial Prosperity comes only with the proper unders …

This group is for anyone interested in learning about speed reading. Help us organize speed reading classes in your area. Free Speed Reading Class - Watch it Now! Iris speed reading classes are held in major cities throughout the U.S. Help us reach out to even more people by organizing sessions in your city!

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 …

What is Chicagoland Real Estate Connections Club? It is a place where you network with active investors and industry professionals. You find out about local markets and how other investors are making money. You learn about deal-making from A to Z. There are many exciting things in store for the real estate industry. Are you poised to take advantage of all the opportunities before you? Meetings will be held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month with the occasional exception.  We meet in Oak Brook at t …

No More Cubicle is here to provide support to those who are ready to never need a job again. Almost everyone has been taught to give their lives to a company in return for a paycheck. Today, there are too many people unemployed and even more under-employed.  Because of this, many people are questioning the education and direction they received in the past. No More Cubicle is here to help W-2's realize that they have a choice. Most people agree that moving from a W-2 paycheck can be scary, but in …

We are dedicated to identifying, learning about and discussing various alternative investments. These are defined as "investments other than stocks and bonds, such as hedge funds, leverage buy-outs (LBOs), derivatives, private equity, arbitrage, event driven, and other hedging strategies. Term sometimes refers to real estate and venture capital investments." Some Examples: Non-Traded REITS Oil & Gas Limited Partnerships Equipment Leasing Raw land LPs

This group was started as there is a HUGE need for financial guidance for the middle class. The purpose is to educate, discuss and comment on the various types of financial planning, tools and products that are available as well as share active money management strategies. We meet every Tuesday at 6:30pm - 8:00pm, 2801 Coho St, Ste 202, Madison WI 53713 - Call Peg at 608-834-3206 if you'd like to attend as a guest.  There are many local business owners who regularly attend and wear business atti …

Do you ever wonder about...? How this object connects to that? What lies beyond the obvious, not satisfied with what has been explained? Why tinkering today with Lego blocks, digital games, or a sketch pad and pen might help you create a new design or solution tomorrow? How you can break a code in this case, but not according to that.things on purpose - and then see if you can fix them? What is *behind* the content on this page, and how it got there, and what makes to speak to and through the a …

The Money Club of Chicago is a club that's about building capital. If you are serious about creating capital and you want to be apart of The Money Club, this is the club for you. We, as a group, invest transparently and we use leverage to create capital. No member does more than any other member and there's two simple requirements you must meet to be apart of the club.

I was looking for a group of fellow self directed IRA owners on Meetup and did not find one, so I decided to start one up. I am looking to start a group where we can exchange ideas and possibly even form partnerships to help us grow our retirement accounts. While a self directed IRA offers us great opportunities, it requires a lot more work and education than just putting money into an account and leaving it up to someone else to grow or lose our money. Let's see if we can work together to share …

Purpose: personal and group growth and self-education for building wealth & prosperity for our group and for its individual members.

The Chicago Area Real Estate Investors Association (Chicago Area REIA - http://www.careia.org/) is an ambitious group of people who invest in real estate located throughout the Chicagoland area. We are a not-for-profit group. We are also members of the National Real Estate Investors Association (National REIA). What this means is that we are supported and surrounded by a much larger group. Whether you're contemplating your first investment, growing with the challenges of the current real estate …

Expand Your Wealth By Expanding Your Mind! We are a Group for people who are taking action to grow their wealth and passive income in order to achieve financial freedom and who want to accelerate and share their knowledge and experience. The intention is to educate people who are serious and interested in building their wealth and to be open to all ideas and opportunities. It is for visionaries and entrepreneurs who have a long-term goal to build wealth. It is for motivated people who are commit …

It's Time to Get Out of the Rat Race. What's your dream? Freedom of time? Unlimited resources to travel the world? Whatever it may be, Robert Kiyosaki, author of the #1 personal finance book of all time, Rich Dad Poor Dad, developed CASHFLOW 101, which teaches you how to get out of the Rat Race and onto the Fast Track, how to make your money work for you -- not the other way around. Therefore, I will be hosting the CASHFLOW 101, one or more game per month, to help illustrate the fundamentals o …

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 …

Mission Our mission is to increase financial and investing savvy through knowledge sharing and hands-on workshops. We aim to help individuals meet their financial goals by building a group filled with diverse skills and talents to share ideas and strategies. We'll explore financial topics such as budgeting, debt, savings, loans, credit cards, banking, retirement, real estate, investing, and taxes. In addition, we'll routinely discuss concepts from author Dave Ramsey, and books such as "The Milli …

"Big Tent" liberty associations are fantastic and serve a very important functions or networking and education.  However, The Society of Libertarian Entrepreneurs has been specifically created, not as an educational group, but as a haven for those rare people who are well educated in libertarian philosophy and passionate about thriving in a peaceful and productive manner.  In the end, the material and spiritual success of Libertarian Entrepreneurs is the most potent form of education - leading b …

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.

This group is for anyone interested in real estate. It doesn't matter if you're brand new or extremely seasoned, scared or fearless, in the trades or just handy. Our goal is to bring as many like minded individuals interested in real estate together to share ideas and knowledge. Our motto is "Local Investors Helping Local Investors". Together we can teach each other, share ideas, or buy and sell properties to each other. Together, we can do amazing things that alone we can't do. If you're lookin …

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 …

This group is for people who really want to learn to love money. Earning it. Spending it. Sharing it. Saving it. It is for people who really want to unlimit their belief system around money. Money is the window to your soul, and you are ready to peek through. This group is about getting to know you, with money as one of our greatest teachers. Through sharing. Through journaling. Through learning. I started this journey of learning to love money because I wanted to make money in a job I loved. I …