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?

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!
D.

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.
D.

Croc,

cheers. good to hear you are heading south again!

Missed the Stock Exchange one due to work.


At the GNI meeting, do you remember then the name of the IG Index speaker please? (I need to claim my free bet)

Have to be honest - the Investor's BB has picked up a bit over the last few days - there have been a few threads of interest.

zz99,

i think you are right it is gathering momentum hope it keeps it up...

what is a Invesetor's then cant find it in the dictionary :-)

Hope you have all had a good weekend and not to much to drink...

Mega...

Mega Bucks,

"Invesetor's"? I have no idea what you're talking about :-)

zz99

:-)

Hmm - I take it back - grand total of 22 posts so far today