Comments on: Guide to Social Investing Websites http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html Freshly squeezed market commentary & analysis Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:36:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: holly http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-55631 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:57:58 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-55631 They are criminals, Zecco, the so called free trade with a HUGE hidden charge. Zecco basically steals your money right before your eyes. One example: they charge you HTB fees for very easy to borrow stocks and charge you almost everyday including weekends and even after you covered the positions!! Complaints have been sent to the SEC and got to do sth to stop those criminals!! They are criminals, Zecco, the so called free trade with a HUGE hidden charge. Zecco basically steals your money right before your eyes. One example: they charge you HTB fees for very easy to borrow stocks and charge you almost everyday including weekends and even after you covered the positions!! Complaints have been sent to the SEC and got to do sth to stop those criminals!!

]]> by: Babak http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-50464 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:18:39 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-50464 coolpixel, yes they're mostly for equity investors. collective2 would have more forex coverage than any other probably. coolpixel, yes they’re mostly for equity investors. collective2 would have more forex coverage than any other probably.

]]> by: coolpixel http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-50395 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:34:09 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-50395 none of these sites seem to be geared towards forex or indices and i am interested in those instruments. any pointers? none of these sites seem to be geared towards forex or indices and i am interested in those instruments.

any pointers?

]]> by: Jim http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-34972 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:57:26 +0000 http://www.tradersnarrative.com/guide-to-social-investing-websites-661.html#comment-34972 I suggest another addition to this list: http://www.macroaxis.com Although it is not built for social investing, few concepts are very similar. I really like their implementation of Modern Portfolio Theory – the concept that is mostly used by Wealth Advisor and professional money managers. Unlike investor rating and performance tracking they use educated approach to investing which is a good way to reduce your exposure to market risk and build your optimal portfolio that can protect you against market bubbles. I suggest another addition to this list: http://www.macroaxis.com

Although it is not built for social investing, few concepts are very similar. I really like their implementation of Modern Portfolio Theory – the concept that is mostly used by Wealth Advisor and professional money managers. Unlike investor rating and performance tracking they use educated approach to investing which is a good way to reduce your exposure to market risk and build your optimal portfolio that can protect you against market bubbles.

]]> 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. […]

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