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The American Association of Individual Investors, Phoenix Chapter is presenting the August
2026 Chapter Meeting
Attend in-person or by Zoom for Free
Regular and SIG Meetings:
Zoom Link:
(Registration Required)
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/iJKOAAr3QVCPu29fajXrfA
This will be a in-person and online meeting.
Saturday, August 15th, 2026
MEETING DETAILS:
This will be in-person and online meeting via Zoom meeting.
11:25 – 12:25
Covering Mike Bellafiore’s ‘The Playbook’
Lowell Carty, Options and Analysis SIG Leader
Want to become a truly great trader – either for yourself or for a proprietary trading firm? This book will help you get there. This unique approach is the closest thing to signing up for a “trader boot camp” yourself! You’ll learn by watching new traders walk through actual trades, explain what they’ve tried to do, and try to survive brutally tough expert critiques. One trade at a time, The Playbook reveals how professional traders must think in order to succeed “under fire,” how they assess their own performance, and how they work relentlessly to improve. Using concrete, actionable setups drawn from his extensive trading and training experience, Bellafiore walks through an extraordinary array of trades, showing readers how to maximize profits and avoid disastrous hidden pitfalls. He covers support plays, bull-and-bear flags, opening drives, important intraday levels, bounce and fade trades, pullbacks, scalps, technical opportunities, consolidation, relative strength, market trades, and more. He also presents indispensable insights on psychology and trader development, based on his work with hundreds of traders on a major commodity exchange and an elite prop firm’s trading desk. Packed with color, personality, and realism, this is an exciting guide to real-world trading.
We have generated a Playbook of trades over the summer months. Now we need to develop and apply the skills from the playbook by implementing the plays that work for us.
We must journal our plays (trades) and much about our system, set up, attitude throughout the trade, selecting what to trade, why to trade, how to trade and when conditions change such that we need to exit the trade, what was done right, what was done wrong, can we replicate this play (trade) [if not, it is not a good trade]. We improve our play (trade) with each trade, journal, review and improvement to the system and improvement in our understanding and execution of the play (trade). The work on the play (trade) and trader is a continuous improvement practice resulting in a better playbook of trades and a better trader.
Date: Saturday, August 15th, 2026
Time: Arizona time
10:00 Announcements
11:00 Special Interest Group [SIG] Speaker
Karen Kamenir, AAII Fundamental Stock SIG Leader
BLUE SKIES?,…. NOPE, SUMMER BLUES
11:15 Break
11:25 Special Interest Group [SIG] Speaker
Lowell Carty, Options and Analysis SIG Leader
Covering Mike Bellafiore’s The Playbook
12:25 Break
12:35 Special Interest Group [SIG] Speaker
Clark Mills, Investment Protection SIG Leader
TBA
1:20 End of Meeting
Location:
Meeting location:
Tempe Public Library – Link to Google Maps
Friends of the Library meeting room
3500 S Rural Rd
Tempe, AZ 85282
