Stocktoberfest, originally conceived by Coronado resident Howard Lindzon, co-founder and Chairman of StockTwits, is an annual event that features top names in trading and investing, fin tech, and financial media as both presenters and attendees. In recent years, it has been held at the Hotel del Coronado.
The Coronado Times spoke with StockTwits CEO Ian Rosen to get some feedback on the nearly 400 financial folks that descended on Coronado earlier this month.
Rosen shared that “Feedback from this year’s Stocktoberfest was extremely positive. We had several comments that this was the “best Stocktoberfest yet” because of the great mix of speakers and attendees. 84% of all attendees rated the show ‘Excellent’ or ‘Very Good’.”
Wootrader attended as a vendor and their founder, Martin Stoyanov, shared that “Stocktoberfest 2016 was great, mainly because of the attendees. Many of them had alternative views of the investing world, and they definitely made it interesting. Since we consider our product to also take an alternative perspective on the investing realm, this was a nice environment for us to show off and preview our new tool.
The beta of our new product, FinanceBoards officially launched on the 18th of this month. It’s completely free for users to manipulate any of our over 450 pre-made financial information widgets, as it is for users to integrate any API that they have access to and create their own widgets.”
We spoke to Mikhail Suleymanov, Vice President, Just2Trade and he commented, “We loved our experience at Stocktoberfest this year because we got face-to-face time with real traders, learning about problems they’re facing daily. From our conversations, we learned that most traders are interested in better pricing models, more customization in platforms, and more tech integrations into their platforms.
It was great to hear directly from the people on the front lines that what we’re doing at Just2Trade and WhoTrades is solving the actual problems they’re are facing.”
If you are interested in attending next year, be sure to go to www.stocktoberfest.co. For sponsorship opportunities they should contact Taylor Becker at [email protected].
