MIX·ALLOpen
Seat$15
Tablemax 20
San Diego · in person · 5–20 traders
Table ofTraders
Trading is a lonely job.It doesn't have to be.
Small in-person meetups where San Diego traders meet each other, talk markets, and build real friendships.
- Stocks
- Options
- Futures
- Crypto
- Prop
- Algo
ES · 5m · live
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MIX·ALLOpen
Seat$15
Tablemax 20
MIX·ALLOpen
Seat$15
Tablemax 20
Retail trading is one of the most isolating things you can do for a living.
You sit alone. You win alone, which nobody really wants to hear about, and you lose alone, which you don't want to tell anyone about. The people in your life mostly don't understand what you do all day, and the people who do understand are strangers on the internet with cartoon avatars.
There are four trading groups on Meetup in San Diego with about 2,300 members between them. Not one has met in person in years.
So I started this.
A small group of local traders around one table. I'm there early and I make the introductions, so nobody stands around on their own. Ninety minutes, clear end time.
No presentations. No course. No signals. Nobody is selling anything — that's the one hard rule.
Just other people who do the same strange, solitary job you do — and a real chance to make a few friends out of it.
How it works
- 01
Pick a table
Whatever you trade, you're welcome at it.
- 02
Book it
$15 a seat.
- 03
Show up
I'm there early and I make the introductions. Ninety minutes, clear end time.
What you're paying for
The seat is the cheap part.
The table is the product.
Anyone can book a table at a taproom. The work is getting people to turn up, introducing them properly, and keeping it to ninety minutes so it stays worth doing.
That's what the seat is for.
Who runs this
I'm Kyle. I've traded options and futures for about four years, almost all of it from a desk at home in San Diego.
I've tried the Discords and I've gone to the events. And I'd stand there telling myself I was going to talk to someone, then drive home having talked to nobody. Not because I didn't want to — because walking up to a stranger in a crowded room is a specific skill, and it isn't the one I've spent four years practicing.
So I stopped trying to get better at working a room and built the thing where you don't have to.
I built it because I wanted to be at it.
Questions
Before you book
What if I don't know anyone?
Nobody knows anyone at their first table. That's the normal state, not the exception.
I'm there before anyone else arrives and I make the introductions, so you're not walking in and scanning the room. You sit down, I tell you who everyone is and what they trade, and it goes from there.
Do I have to talk about my P&L?
No. Nobody asks for numbers and you never have to give them.
Most of the conversation is about how people trade — instruments, setups, what's been working and what hasn't — not what anyone made or lost. If you want to talk numbers, you can. If you'd rather not, nobody will notice.
What if I'm brand new?
That's fine. The intake form asks how long you've been trading, so I know who's coming and can put the table together accordingly.
Nobody is going to quiz you. The one thing worth knowing: nobody at the table is going to teach you a system, because nobody is allowed to sell one.
Is this a class?
No. There is no presentation, no slides, no speaker, no curriculum.
It's a booked table and a small group of people who do the same job. If you want a course, there are a thousand of them, and I don't sell any of them.
What if I don't drink?
Then don't. Plenty of tables are at coffee shops, and at the ones that aren't, ordering a coffee or a soda is completely unremarkable.
The form asks whether you drink only so I can pick a venue that works for whoever's coming. Nobody comments either way.
What if I have to cancel?
Tell me. More than 24 hours out, I refund you or move it to another date, no questions.
Inside 24 hours, or if you just don't turn up, the fee is gone — the seat was held and the table was planned around you. A day's notice is all I ask, and it's one email.
Is anyone going to sell me something?
No, and it's the one rule I'll end an invitation over.
No courses, no signals, no paid Discords, no prop-firm affiliate links, no recruiting — not at the table, not in the parking lot, not in a DM afterward. The intake form asks directly whether you're selling anything trading-related, and I read the answers.
Who else will be there?
Local traders — stocks, options, futures, crypto, prop, algo. All experience levels, and everyone gets introduced at the start.
Tables are small on purpose. Five to twenty people, so you actually end up talking to everyone rather than standing in a corner.
Not ready to book?
I'll email you when new tables go up. A few lines, no more than once a week, and nothing else — no course, no newsletter, no pitch.