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There is no rest period for me it seems. But it's all good.

I was in Seattle on Saturday with 70-80 other traders hanging out at the Rob Booker/InterbankFX event at the Waterfront Marriott.

Met some great people there - even some Trading Post and old FXT folks.

TP Coach Nikhil Patel was there and mentioned that Rob has been trading seven years. If you're distracted by the Booker antics, which more than anything are uniquely him, you'll be impressed by the fact that there is substance behind his methods. He pushes himself to keep improving.

Rob fashions himself as more of a researcher than a trader. What he has done and continues to do is push his boundaries. If there is anything that can be learned by any wannabe trader is Rob's approach. Good is never good enough. Don't settle and just rely on "experts" to show you the "way." You have to create the way and stay hungry to continually get better and evolve.

Through it, you have the potential, without the funny jackets and amusing Powerpoints, to be a more successful trader than Rob.

Another point is that Rob has the same type of philosophy I do. Share, and share liberally. Why withhold? We can all help each other be better by working together.

We're in the midst of creating a free resources section at Trading Post, and hopefully we'll be able to liberally share all that Rob has in his Free section.

It was fun and it was great to see everyone. I don't know where the next few months will take me - but I know that I've booked myself to next roam the floor of the New York Forex Expo in February.

L-R: Thuan H., Neil K., Larry E., Samuel Araki, Rob Booker, Tom P., Nikhil Patel, Harold Fretheim, Jared M.

I know this may be a little late, but I will be attending a forex seminar hosted by Interbank FX in Seattle tomorrow morning.

Rob Booker is the keynote speaker, so you know that you'll definitely get something out of it.  It will also be interesting to hear Rob's thoughts on the current economic climate.

I just wanted to say that if you're in the Vancouver / Seattle area and want to attend this workshop, we have held a couple of seats so just come on down to the Seattle Marriott Waterfront tomorrow morning!

I'll be roaming around during check-in time tomorrow and if you can't spot me, Nikhil Patel, one of our Trading Coaches, will also be there!

Hope to see some of you there tomorrow.

I can't believe we're in a new month. I say this every month it seems, and it seems the more I say it, the faster time seems to pass by.

Join our free Non-Farm Payroll webinar using this special link and spend a couple of hours with fellow traders and Trading Post Coaches Harold Fretheim and Nikhil Patel.

I'm sure many of you have heard that Trading Post Financial is sponsoring a series of live Forex workshops in Vancouver on Oct. 18 - 19.

It's a twin-bill with the Trading Coach tag-team of Pierre Charlebois and Nikhil Patel. It'll be a great time being surrounded with fellow traders.

The early bird pricing is $149 for the one and a half days, and we have partnered with three downtown Vancouver hotels for discounted room rates - but that ends on Oct. 4.

Full information, including agenda, logistics, etc., is always updated on the Trading Post website.

So far there are registrants from as far east as Toronto, and as far south as Seattle. There is limited seating for this, so don't miss your spot.

Just got in from Orlando after visiting Shawn Beecher and the folks at iTradeFX. It's a Forex broker dealer that has grown a tremendous amount in the three years it's been in business. Douglas Sereda and I were there for a quick visit and we're very thankful for the iTradeFX hospitality.

It wasn't necessarily hot down there, but really muggy, and holy cow are the streets wide (I know I said this in an earlier post, but I need to emphasize WIDE).

I'm glad I'm back home, though. Vancouver is really the most beautiful place around and it's not an indictment on other cities in disparaging them, but it's just nice to be away for a bit to realize again why I live in a beautiful place.

And I know most people will concur in loving where they live - or is that too much of an assumption?

It took me all day to get to Florida, and it's too bad I'm turning around so quickly and headed home tomorrow.

But it's been a rather eventful day. While I was surrounded by anti-social (as opposed to the "friendlier" unsocial) folks on two flight legs from Vancouver, I find out a few things after I land in Florida.

I turned on my cell phone to check my messages only to find out that Boris Schlossberg and Kathy Lien had put out a sell on the AUD/JPY at 1:30 p.m. (PT) and two hours later and after six follow-up SMS messages had exited with a 150 pip profit. I thought, wow nice - only if I HADN'T been on a flight. Oh well. That's the first big winner in a few weeks, and it would have been nice to be in position for it.

Then I got into my hotel room, turned on the TV to find out that the bailout bill DID NOT pass, the Dow lost over 777 points - the biggest single-day point loss in history, and now since I've settled in the Asian markets have taken a tumble too.

America lives in its own bubble. If indeed Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's "partisan" speech shortly before the vote really did sway the vote from pass to fail, shame on the democracy that the United States is founded on. It is pride that has created this crisis, and it is pride which further spreads the United States' dirty laundry for the entire world to see.

Driving around the Orlando area tonight, my partner at Trading Post Douglas Sereda purchased a number of things from a 7-11 and couldn't believe that it only came out to $12. In brief chatter with others in the 7-11, it was clear that their sentiment is for this whole corporate America mess to fail.

I look around and everything is so big, so much land is taken to build buildings and parking lots that as Doug mentioned you would need a water bottle to walk across the street from the 7-11 to the Walgreens. There is an excess here - bigger, faster, more has a limit.

As a consumer you can see it, and when I compare it to what we have in Canada, there is a definite differences in the modesty of how things are presented.

Trading Post Brokerage Services has been hard at work in establishing further Introducing Broker agreements with some of the leading Forex brokers.

 Saxo Bank, Interactive Brokers, ODL Securities, and GFS Forex & Futures are TPBS's newest partners. These changes have not yet gone live on the Trading Post website yet, but these relationships are official and will be public in the coming weeks.

The idea that not one broker is  meant for all traders means that as a trader you need to have a choice based on your trading profile. Additional relationships are being pursued.

I am actually flying down to Florida this morning to spend the next couple of days meeting with the team from iTradeFX to explore the prospects of working with them.

We constantly looking to evolve (for the better) and add to what we have.

At the end of last week we unveiled a new tabbed structure to segment the products and services our Clients have access to.

Login to the Client Services Portal yourself to experience it!