Any Trading Related Q&A Sites Like Quora and Esp. Stack Exchange?

If you want a forum with other pro traders you're going to need a Bloomberg terminal. That forum is full of traders on desks, ET is mostly independent traders, hence retail. Yeah, there are a few big boys that post on ET, and few good nuggets here and there from some good indies, but its mostly a pissing match between struggling traders and other traders that have brief moments of success and want to 'teach'.

You get what you pay for.......free ET.
 
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If you want a forum with other pro traders you're going to need a Bloomberg terminal. That forum is full of traders on desks, ET is mostly independent traders, hence retail. Yeah, there are a few big boys that post on ET, and few good nuggets here and there from some good indies, but its mostly a pissing match between struggling traders and other traders that have brief moments of success and want to 'teach'.

You get what you pay for.......free ET.
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That's very interesting about the Bloomberg forum being good.

Is there any way to access it other than through a full Bloomberg subscription? For example, is it available in any University libraries?
 
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this is more of a free market... and i like it that way... you get all the wacko's but they do very well in removing spammy advertising.. you make friends with people that help you.. I personally think real traders aren't advertising anything nor do they typically spend alot of time teaching.. i'm not completely closed minded when it comes to a more structured thread on options.. more of a wiki kind of thing .. where it would be regulated such that false information or off content information would be removed.. i've learned a ton from tangent discussions.. your mind was made to roam i think.. Then what we would be having some authority to argue with and deal with.. if you want a mentor or someone to hold your hand just say it.. i'm sure someone will hold your hand... people have for me .. but i grease the hell out of the wheels with questions..
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Good points.

I think a lot of the responsibility is our own - ask more and better questions etc. on the forums and try to contribute something too. I intend to do that in coming months .......
 
Periodically I see people saying that a pay site will improve quality, citing BMT as an example.

This is wrong on 2 counts. Firstly, BMT is a free site. You only pay (once) if you want to join the Elite Circle, access to which is limited to paying members.

Secondly, charging a fee is no guarantee that quality will improve. Bums could pay 50 bucks and misbehave freely. Does anyone seriously think that only nice guys have money? The key is moderation, as even the free section of BMT is noted for civility. Go off topic or misbehave and you get told pretty fast.

Charge a fee and do not moderate and you may well get worse than ET, because people could think since they have paid they are entitled to post as they wish.
 
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That's very interesting about the Bloomberg forum being good.

Is there any way to access it other than through a full Bloomberg subscription? For example, is it available in any University libraries?
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Some universities have bbg - you just have to either go to their website (they're usually proud to say they have a bbg) or call their library and ask.

there is no other way to access bbg other than w/ a scrip.
 
Different sites have grown up their own sort of discussions. That's good because of the variety. One can always use the ignore button on the stuff you don't like in a site.
 
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Stach Exchange have 94 thematic sites, some of them are pretty interesting: http://stackexchange.com/
It's Quora for specific topics.

Askbot offers you a free platform to do a Quora/Stack Exchange like Q&A site: http://askbot.com/.

Is there a good one on trading? Haven't found it yet. Maybe we should do it? Ideas? Comments?
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This is the only pertinent Stack Exchange one I've found:

http://quant.stackexchange.com/

It's more quantitative finance or financial engineering, but maybe that's because other types of "trading" questions lead to opinion answers and typical internet BS.
 
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Maybe this could be done here on ET with more effort. I think that some of the problem on ET is that any off-topic post or attack or diversion is considered fair game and just fine, so that threads tend to break down in acrimony or wander off-course after a while because it is hard to keep a serious discussion on-topic and non-confrontational.

I would advocate that ET experiment with some proactively-moderated forums.
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I agree.

I've been here more than 10 years and I notice a lot more a$$hats here now, or at least a higher percentage of them. There are some seriously good traders that are still members, but only a few bother to post because of all the acrimony and BS that goes unchecked.

I responded to a post this morning to a guy asking a question about ES volume, then some guy posts that my response is infrequent because it's against CME rules. I tell him there's a lot that goes on in trading that's "against the rules" and then he wants my name. WTF?

That will teach me to be helpful around here.

Many others have learned before me.
 
We're going beyond "more proactive moderation" on the next version of ET. I was hoping to have this done by January 1st but it's going to be about one more week. Essentially, you'll be able to create your own private conversations that will enable you to invite only those members that you want to participate. That way, there's nobody screwing up your conversations unless of course, one of the members you invited turns out to be a troll. :D
 
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We're going beyond "more proactive moderation" on the next version of ET. I was hoping to have this done by January 1st but it's going to be about one more week. Essentially, you'll be able to create your own private conversations that will enable you to invite only those members that you want to participate. That way, there's nobody screwing up your conversations unless of course, one of the members you invited turns out to be a troll. :D
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Will one be able to invite everyone by start with, and later disinvite individuals who prove to be disruptive?
 
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