I’m currently looking to start investing on the stock market, but before I do anything I’m making sure I do plenty of research.
I’ve already bought a couple of books on investing (more on those later) and also been reading a number of websites over the past few months.
So far, these have been the most helpful - and useful - references for me in terms of investment forums, in no particular order:
1. MoneyTec
A forum covering all aspects of investments and investing. A number of the forums are closed to public viewing, though, so you’ll have to join to see if any of these are useful for you.
http://www.moneytec.com/forums/index.php
2. Forex Factory
Forex factory - as the name suggests - focuses on foreign exchange, so-called “forex”. Be aware that forex is one of the high risk/gain investment areas, so tread very carefully in making forex investment decisions.
http://www.forexfactory.com/forexforum/
3. Motley Fool
One of the biggest money and investment sites out there, but unfortunately it’s not free to surf their forums without signing up for a free membership. Not ideal in terms of accessibility, but probably worth a look anyway.
http://boards.fool.com/Index.aspx?source=LN
4. Silicon Investor
Another custom forum, that has more in common with Usenet Newsgroups than vbulletin/phpbb, etc, but again, if you’re looking for information you may find something useful here.
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/
5. Trade2Win
Another pretty big vbulletin forum, and one of the biggest here, Trade2Win has a very comprehensive set of discussion boards, but you’ll also have to register to read the threads.
http://www.trade2win.com/boards/index.php
6. Finance Markets boards
One of the smallest forums listed here, but with an emphasis on investing from a UK perspective, it covers an interesting niche.
http://www.financemarkets.co.uk/boards/
7. TalkStock
This one looks a bit too much like Usenet groups in that there seems to be little moderating in play here, but again, I figure a resource is a resource, and it may prove useful if you look.
8. StockHouse
Stockhouse has two sets of forums - free public use ones, and private member only forums. Both seem fairly well used on what seems an otherwise busy investors site.
http://www.stockhouse.com/bullboards/
9. Market Forum
Another site that looks like Usenet, except that instead of a lot of spam, you get a lot of ads posted as messages. Once you navigate past those, some interesting discussions to be read.
10. Superior Investor
The sloppy presentation hides an otherwise active and interesting investment forum, which has some interesting regular posters covering general investment topics.
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