Good Trading Forums

[The Bear 10]

Are there any good online message boards guys, that are for traders but more active than Traders Laboratory but not filled with the garbage on Elite Trader?

[Kiwi 16]

LOL.

 

Its a tough call. I use 3, Traders Laboratory, Trade2Win and EliteTrader. Average info quality decreases from left to right and I learn almost nothing from bb's .. a trinket here or there. But elite is the only place to go to check IB problems and also does get some excellent news/economics posts. T2W is active without the shear (enjoyable?) offensiveness of Elite. Trades Lab is more likely to produce a gem.

 

Babypips was ok for forex babies. Forex factory has a great calendar but is populated by lots of indicator junkies plus a few good threads (james16, jacko's, the system II (Yes with irony)). Most others had no appeal.

[darthtrader3.0beta 10]

I browse Wilmott and Nuclear Phyance from time to time. Even though I don't know what they are talking about 90% of the time its interesting to get a perspective from the Quant side of things. Nuclear is especially good for this because most those guys are institutional professionals.

[The Bear 10]

Thanks guys, I'll check out the trade 2 win. I think i'll stay away from those quant nerds - that's stuff is over the top for me.

 

Just tired of reading the nonsense on Elite Trader like "I just turned 10 thousand into 1 million". "GOOG is up 20% today - Buy It" "Most Elite Traders Will Beat The Market This Year - And Here's Why"

 

It's funny for 10 seconds, but after awhile it's a pure waste of time. I went all of last year and more without looking at the board - and just lately I peek in there time to time - OK more like multiple times a day now, it's becoming a disease.

[darthtrader3.0beta 10]

Well elite is fun to read like a tabloid is fun to read sitting on the shitter...

This place can't be beat from the retail level but there is a flaw in the entire idea of a trading forum. I mean when my skills/tools are all at the the degree of razor sharpness I want them to eventually be I won't be posting how to sharpen tools here, you will simply never hear from me again.

[The Bear 10]

Beleive me, you will go back eventually, even if you are confident with your own skills. If you are a lone speculator - and have no interaction during the working day - I think you want some sort of contact with other people that do what you do. Elite trader is just not the place though - my guess it's made up of all those idiot prop traders who slam on their desk when they get in a hissy fit - type guys.

 

Like really darth - who are all the people on Elite Trader? It is the working day so most people have to work 9-5 and they aren't posting from work.

[tlfx 10]

I don't really like ET forum. I prefer Babypips (yeah i'm a forex newbie). Members there are much nicer...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[SwingTradinJay 10]

I gag when I read ET, but it is slightly entertaining.

 

This place is solid.

[nexttothemoon 10]

Here's a pile of forums I've found on the net over the past months and years. I'll post them all here as they might be useful or at least semi-interesting to some users here.

 

Just for fun (ya, fun stuff for me is likely different than most peoples definitions ) I threw them all into a spreadsheet and ranked them all by "highest number of posts per thread" and this is the ranking I came up with.

 

I was trying to come up with a rough metric to find the "chattiest" forums... even among those that were somewhat smaller in user base size than the BIG BOYS like trade2win, elitetrader etc.

 

Forum - threads - posts per thread

 

forexfactory.com 20834 51.45

hotstockmarket.com 46662 38.92

sharetrader.co.nz 5649 38.57

aussiestockforums.com 11248 34.56

forex-tsd.com 7231 34.01

sharesforum.co.uk 3263 26.35

allstocks.com 52753 21.6

stockmarketcats.com 2624 16.8

elitetrader.com 122463 16.14

oanda.com 27648 14.43

traderji.com 17332 14.16

traderslaboratory.com 3982 14.15

trade2win.com 39600 13.54

createphpbb.com/phpbb/?mforum=fxreview 1818 12.98

forex4noobs.com 1188 12.95

nuclearphynance.com 9420 12.57

kreslik.com 1430 11.01

forum.fxopen.com (English FX section) 3169 10.9

moneytec.com 48051 9.28

fxstreet.com 1706 9.09

traders-talk.com 48200 9.01

smartquant.com 1830 8.51

fxfisherman.com 3009 8.17

forexforums.dailyfx.com 14442 7.68

tradestation.com 47331 6.85

tradingblox.com 2196 6.81

sierrachart.com 11869 6.04

thetechnicaltrader.net 1068 5.69

talkgold.com (forex and investment sections) 14713 5.19

forum.tssupport.com 3695 5.05

woodiescciclub.com 2285 4.99

babypips.com 18539 4.82

money-talk.org 9463 4.73

forums.marketocracy.com 16619 4.2

goldage.net (forex and investment sections) 5029 4.1

forexforums.org 128565 4.04

forexpeacearmy.com 3131 4

piptrader.com 1024 3.86

stockhideout.com 1862 3.66

forums.fxinstructor.com 1196 3.39

forexnews.com 1689 3.28

mataf.net 8394 3.02

slashinvestments.com 330405 2.61

forum.alpari.co.uk 2729 2.58

forexforum.net 6109 2.08

forexboards.com 2109 2.03

onlinetradersforum.com 106402 1.97

forexforums.com 7409 1.47

einvestorsforum.com 2418 1.23

forexscamcheck.com 17962 1.07

websitetoolbox.com 2359 1.04

informedtrades.com 363711 1.03

fxcomparison.com 27376 1.01

moneymakergroup.com (investments section) 72736 0.47

traderscommunity.com 102161 0.17

mypivots.com 40782 0.09

 

3 more moderately large forums where it's too big a job to count all the posts to calculate posts per thread:

 

Forum - threads

 

wilmott.com 65307

investorvillage.com 14736

forum.mql4.com 6905

 

There's a huge variety of forums in there covering all sorts of trading and investments. Enjoy