Comments on: Guide to Social Investing Websites http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html Freshly squeezed market commentary & analysis Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:34:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Trish http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-33477 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:31:17 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-33477 Sorry to make my debut with a negative report, but here goes. I'd hoped to find a website where I could set up a virtual portfolio similar to my real one and gather comments (probably derision!) from a community of online traders. The BullPoo site (renamed this week to DueDee) looked the most interesting to me, so I registered. Unfortunately, it isn't exactly what it appears to be. Granted, the title says "beta", so one should expect some features to be buggy or missing. On the other hand, I think it's fair to expect developers to label large missing parts. The trading system had problems for a few days after the renaming and all blog links were broken for the first day or two. Those have been fixed. The big part that's missing is the community. There have been only half a dozen posts in each of their "Feedback" and "General Discussion" forums in 2008. Everywhere on the site, dates omit the year, so the site will look as fresh in 2010 as it does now, even though most of the visible activity was posted in 2007. One can create a user blog and post to it, but the only blog entries one sees in the site's index don't lead to individual user's on-site blogs, but to external sites that are mostly professional stock pickers. If I wanted to read newsletters, I'd search yahoo or google for newsletters. There seem to be only about 20 "registered users". The records for "Best Forecasts" and "Biggest Portfolio" are held by users whose profiles show "no forecasts made by this user" and "user's portfolio value is $0", respectively. The "#1 Forecaster" wrote a blog post in May, but checking the date and day of the week, it was from 2006! There's nothing wrong with running a traffic aggregator for a few blog/newsletter sites combined with a private portfolio simulator, but it's a little misleading to say that the site has, or in any way builds, a community. And it's very misleading to chop the year off every date of every event in the website. (Oops, I finally found a year! On users' profile pages, it says "member since Day Month Year".) Still hoping to find a social feedback trade modeling site, Trish Sorry to make my debut with a negative report, but here goes.

I’d hoped to find a website where I could set up a virtual portfolio similar to my real one and
gather comments (probably derision!) from a community of online traders.

The BullPoo site (renamed this week to DueDee) looked the most interesting to me, so I registered.
Unfortunately, it isn’t exactly what it appears to be. Granted, the title says “beta”, so
one should expect some features to be buggy or missing. On the other hand, I think it’s fair
to expect developers to label large missing parts.

The trading system had problems for a few days after the renaming and all blog links were
broken for the first day or two. Those have been fixed. The big part that’s missing is
the community.

There have been only half a dozen posts in each of their “Feedback” and “General Discussion”
forums in 2008. Everywhere on the site, dates omit the year, so the site will look as fresh
in 2010 as it does now, even though most of the visible activity was posted in 2007.

One can create a user blog and post to it, but the only blog entries one sees in the site’s
index don’t lead to individual user’s on-site blogs, but to external sites that are mostly
professional stock pickers. If I wanted to read newsletters, I’d search yahoo or google for
newsletters.

There seem to be only about 20 “registered users”. The records for “Best Forecasts” and “Biggest
Portfolio” are held by users whose profiles show “no forecasts made by this user” and “user’s
portfolio value is $0″, respectively. The “#1 Forecaster” wrote a blog post in May, but checking
the date and day of the week, it was from 2006!

There’s nothing wrong with running a traffic aggregator for a few blog/newsletter sites combined
with a private portfolio simulator, but it’s a little misleading to say that the site has, or in
any way builds, a community. And it’s very misleading to chop the year off every date of every
event in the website.

(Oops, I finally found a year! On users’ profile pages, it says “member since Day Month Year”.)

Still hoping to find a social feedback trade modeling site,
Trish

]]> by: Retour sur le BarCampBankParis6 « PortfolioandCo http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-33329 Wed, 28 May 2008 01:29:02 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-33329 [...] Concernant les ateliers je ne rentrerai pas dans les détails, des prises de notes de 3 ateliers sont disponibles ici (merci à celui ou celle qui a pris le temps d’écrire et de diffuser sur Internet, je ne sais pas qui sait). Nous avons parlé de la P2PMoney, du P2PVenture, du P2PLending, du SocialTrading et enfin de l’identité numérique (openID, liberty Alliance, CardSpace). Cet atelier sur l’identité et la réputation revient souvent lors du BarCamp car c’est une problématique fondamentale du développement d’internet qui n’est pas totalement résolue. On commence cependant à voir des choses intéressantes. [...] […] Concernant les ateliers je ne rentrerai pas dans les détails, des prises de notes de 3 ateliers sont disponibles ici (merci à celui ou celle qui a pris le temps d’écrire et de diffuser sur Internet, je ne sais pas qui sait). Nous avons parlé de la P2PMoney, du P2PVenture, du P2PLending, du SocialTrading et enfin de l’identité numérique (openID, liberty Alliance, CardSpace). Cet atelier sur l’identité et la réputation revient souvent lors du BarCamp car c’est une problématique fondamentale du développement d’internet qui n’est pas totalement résolue. On commence cependant à voir des choses intéressantes. […]

]]> by: Update: Four New Social Investing Websites http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-33024 Fri, 09 May 2008 05:03:33 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-33024 [...] I’ve updated the list of social networking website devoted to trading/investing: [...] […] I’ve updated the list of social networking website devoted to trading/investing: […]

]]> by: Babak http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-32942 Sun, 04 May 2008 23:15:58 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-32942 Rob, thanks for the headsup on your site. Please continue to work on it and when you have a direction and a better idea of what you are offering, I'll be happy to add it to the list Rob, thanks for the headsup on your site. Please continue to work on it and when you have a direction and a better idea of what you are offering, I’ll be happy to add it to the list

]]> by: casey http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-32941 Sun, 04 May 2008 23:03:59 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-32941 I always visit stokblogs, because 2 or 3 certain bloggers are quite useful to find new stocks for further investigation :-) I always visit stokblogs, because 2 or 3 certain bloggers are quite useful to find new stocks for further investigation :-)

]]> by: Un guide de services sociaux d’investissement http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-25559 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:09:07 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-25559 [...] Trader’s Narrative a publié une liste de services internet de type “p2p trading”, “social trading”, “social investing”, “collaborative investment”, “stock market oriented online communities”. Comme vous le voyez, le vocabulaire est déjà bien fourni pour ce type de services qui sont cependant encore malheureusement essentiellement américains. Cette liste est très exhaustive et chaque fois accompagnée d’une description du service. [...] […] Trader’s Narrative a publié une liste de services internet de type “p2p trading”, “social trading”, “social investing”, “collaborative investment”, “stock market oriented online communities”. Comme vous le voyez, le vocabulaire est déjà bien fourni pour ce type de services qui sont cependant encore malheureusement essentiellement américains. Cette liste est très exhaustive et chaque fois accompagnée d’une description du service. […]

]]> by: Rob http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-13830 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:48:37 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-13830 I currently run, Wikistock. It would have been nice to be included in the list. If anyone happens upon this, please check the site out. Working hard on trying to build it into something useful. www.wikistock.com I currently run, Wikistock. It would have been nice to be included in the list. If anyone happens upon this, please check the site out. Working hard on trying to build it into something useful.

www.wikistock.com

]]> by: Forex Reader » Blog Archive » Carnival of Long Term Investing #9 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-9097 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:22:59 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-9097 [...] Babak presents Guide to Social Investing Websites posted at Trader’s Narrative. A complete guide to the social networking sites dedicated to the stock market and investing. Find out which one is the best for you and join to learn more and make money! [...] […] Babak presents Guide to Social Investing Websites posted at Trader’s Narrative. A complete guide to the social networking sites dedicated to the stock market and investing. Find out which one is the best for you and join to learn more and make money! […]

]]> by: Investing on a Budget: How to Get Started in the Stock Market without a lot of Money http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-9006 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:34:20 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-9006 [...] Many more! [...] […] Many more! […]

]]> by: How I Save Money.net » Blog Archive » Festival of under 30 finances…June 29th edition http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-8731 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:12:02 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-8731 [...] Babak presents Guide to Social Investing Websites posted at Trader’s Narrative, saying, “A complete guide to the social networking sites covering the stock market and investing. Take a look to see which one strikes your fancy and join the community to learn more about investing and keep tabs on your portfolio.” [...] […] Babak presents Guide to Social Investing Websites posted at Trader’s Narrative, saying, “A complete guide to the social networking sites covering the stock market and investing. Take a look to see which one strikes your fancy and join the community to learn more about investing and keep tabs on your portfolio.” […]

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