i hate to add yet another thread ( which may never get a single post ), but is this how a financial site evolves? there seem to be plenty of posters but not many who are interested in the same stocks. therefore dozens of threads with no comment

any views?

Supperrod,

Why not subscribe to Shares Mag for 1 year, and you receive a 12 month ticket to the Trader's Room?

That's what I intend to do when my trial expires in December.

I think shares has improved and become a decent read, and they always have a few good ideas for shares to follow, chart sections are good, so, IMHO, 99 for an annual subscription to the two is very worthwhile.

Andy.

Andy

last week i cancelled my sub at the newsagent for shares mag for that very reason

Far less interesting and vibrant than ADVFN - Down to too much control freakism by the editorial staff in my view. Seems they only want to hear views similar to their own or the poster is banished. Maybe they should join New 'Labour'.

brianboru
if memory serves wasnt he a "king" of ireland? not you AGAIN olie?

Also a race horse my friend!

supperrod,

It takes time to achieve critical mass, number of postings is improving, although clearly nowhere near the ADVFN level.

IMHO the important issue is the quality of posts, not the quantity.

andy,totally agree about the qaulity of posts.brianboru,yes a quality racehorse that failed to deliver unlike MAM with its quality posts will deliver

Although a newbie, I have been trying to find my feet for the last two years on and off, this has to be the most informative site to date for people like me. I do not feel intimidated asking questions that may appear to the more seaoned trader as stupid. May it long continue and thanks to those to have taken the time to help the rest of us.

washlander
whatever site you use, NEVER be intimidated about asking. you might occasionally look a burk but so what? how many times at school did you want to ask but didnt? then you get in the playground all your mates were scared to ask the same question.

Here we are on a weekend (sat) night. ADVFN is broke, and there is still no posts worth talking about (qty) Somethings wrong.

edit: never mind. Saturday night fever.

Hi fellow investors & traders,

I'm Nigel and relatively new to am but daily have take the time to read through share trading threads of interest and hopefully some of which I've replied and continued with an intersting contribution to the thread.

The great thing is that this investors room is not full of a load of redundant, bored city traders and analysts who have nothing better to do than winge, moan, and goad each other in being juvenile delinquents. I agree with Carravaggio's comments & sentiment entirely. The content of threads to this message board seems to be more to the point of a communinity helping each other to trade in shares and make a profit. Thanks to all those posted above for some great help I've got from reading what you folks have posted.

My only comment on all this is that a bulletin board is what the members make of it. But a bulletin board is only part of this site.

MoneyAM's major facilities, such as prices, news, Level 2, the wireless service and so on, you can all make a value judgement about. You can compare and contrast facilities and value. But we should not overlook the invaluable (IMHO) link with Shares magazine.

I've heard accusations that the site is cliquey. It really is not, it's simply that new members are shy. Walk right up and say hello on any thread, ask for help, don't feel inhibited, you'll get a warm welcome.

I've seen this "cliquey" accusation thing in all sorts of places and clubs, and it's seldom true. It is definitely not true on MoneyAM. It's simply that the people already on the site are obviously known to each other and friendly, and the newcomer feels left out. Again, set aside your shyness and post a "hello, I'm Fred/Tracy, and I'm an aspiring trader".

Hope this helps,

MM

Hello, I am Rick and i'm an aspiring Computer Programmer and company CEO :-)

Mega...

-- MightyMicro,

Whether or not it is cliquey, it certainly feels that way (on the Trader's board, anyway) - I get the same feeling from MAM that I got when Advfn first started - an "inner circle" of people who know each other, plus the hoi polloi. This will probably dissipate once there are more people involved, as it did on the Advfn PBB (and once a lot of the AdvFN "clique" left to create this place)

With regard to the feature set - sorry, but I think MAM is a mile behind Advfn in most ways - very grateful to them for introducing some competition and driving prices down, but don't feel that the platform is competetive at all.

To whit: BBs - are somewhat equivalent to where Advfn's were a year ago - but they've moved forward - the favourites/classification of threads, and the better filtering. Not as necessary on here at the moment, because the traffic is so much lighter, in terms of people & threads.

Monitor - pretty to look at, but no Covered Warrants; no US stocks; no derivatives (options, futures); no Forex

L2 - not even as good as the old Advfn L2, never mind the new one - really confusing to look at, minimal integrated trades (though I do lke the fact that it automatically spawns a new page).

Fundamental - nicely presented, but nowhere near as much depth as Advfn

Charts - nothing really wrong with them, but I prefer the look of the AdvFn ones, and theirs have more options.

Sorry - this is coming across as a slagging, and it isn't meant to be. It's my honest view of the relative merits of the two platforms, and the reason why I hardly ever come over here.

Wish you the best - the more you push Advfn in the "arms race" the better both sites will get

One further comment to the amount of postings on the Trader's board - I've taken advantage of a couple of the promotions to have a looksee. Trader's is good quality, but very sparse - apart from the daily trader's thread, in my experience.

And the "invaluable" link with Shares magazine?? I'll be charitable, and assume that Andy was right, and Shares has improved a lot - it was a clueless, badly-written comic full of dreadfully inaccurate articles when I was reading it 2 or 3 years ago.

zzaxx99
We hold free traders meetings every 6 weeks all over the UK so you can meet the posters on the traders thread. Yes they do know each other so it can appear to be 'clicquey' but they welcome anyone to join in.
Our next meeting is in Harrogate on the 13th November and you can be bored by several guest speakers including myself.
The main point of the day however is to bring traders together!
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Croc,

There does seem to be a northern bias about these meetings though!

Andy
We do have London ones as well including the free one we held at the Stock Exchange earlier this year and another on Thursday 28th January in London
Thread will be posted shortly.
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