Give me your suggestions, complaints and feedback!

[Joe Blow]

Hi Joe,

Where can I view "number of posts today" for the entire forum?

Also, are there back records of the same stat?

I'd like to chart it against the All Ords.

Thanks GB

Hi GB,

I have access to that data but it's in the back-end of the forum software and not accessible by ASF members. It may be possible to take a screenshot of the data if you wanted to chart it against the All Ords, but I can assure you there is a correlation. I have observed it first hand.

I'm new here, (one of the reffos). Interesting people here.

I don't use the stock side very much, I've been burned a bit by the market, like a lot of people, so I will wait until there is more interest in it and it looks like its on the uptrend.

I can't think of many improvements that need to be made to the forum, generally people are polite. I mainly use the General Chat board and it's fine.

Thank you for a good well managed site.

Hi Rumpole,

Many thanks for the kind words!

That ASF remains a friendly and constructive community is something that is very important to me. I accept that sometimes threads will boil over and there may be some harsh words spoken, but that happens every now and again in any online community this size. Rest assured that the moderators and I do our best to keep the disruptive trolls and serial pests out.

Perhaps this may be an opportunity for you to reacquaint yourself with the market and engage in some interesting discussions in the General Chat forum at the same time? Either way, I hope you enjoy your time here at ASF!

 

[pixel]

Hi Joe,

Where can I view "number of posts today" for the entire forum?

Also, are there back records of the same stat?

I'd like to chart it against the All Ords.

Thanks GB

Hi GB,
Great plan. But methinks you'd need some differentiation for a meaningful analysis.
At least count the number of posts on stock-specific topics and general chat topics. Just by eyeballing, I'd suggest when the market is limp, people tend to chat about politics, music, crazy religion; whereas there seems to be more talk about stocks and general investment topics when the market is moving.
Bring it on!

 

[Trembling Hand]

Hi Joe,

Where can I view "number of posts today" for the entire forum?

Also, are there back records of the same stat?

I'd like to chart it against the All Ords.

Thanks GB

GB many moons ago back in the days long long since past during the Bull market I did a comparison to total post numbers for a given stock to market cap.

I cannot at the moment find it but what it did very roughly show was that the higher the post to market cap the further away from its all time high. Not a good sign. Basically interest came after the best time to be into any stock.

Something similar to what you're thinking?

 

[Gringotts Bank]

pixel, in the past I have plotted the number of posts in the humour section on Hotcopper vs the Ords but there was no correlation; that surprised me a bit. I think it might be a general trend across all market and non-market related threads.

TH I've just noticed that the ASF forum sparks up at certain times and goes dead at others (more so than HC), usually corresponding to the mood of the market. I thought there might be some sort of leading signal to exploit. I've noticed on HC people start posting like crazy the moment they have bought in, though that's different to what you're saying. Maybe the extremes of price action is what attracts posts.

Chart trends seem to last longer when the degree of ascent is approx. 45 degrees. Maybe the number of posts per stock should rise in a similar fashion?

 

[rumpole]

Hi Joe,

Is there an RSS feed somewhere on this site ?

 

[Joe Blow]

Hi Joe,

Is there an RSS feed somewhere on this site ?

Hi Rumpole,

You can access ASF's RSS feed here: https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/-/index.rss

 

[bellenuit]

Maybe add Like and Dislike buttons to already made posts (with a counter for each) so that one can express one's opinion on a post without having to write a new post to do so.

 

[Joe Blow]

Maybe add Like and Dislike buttons to already made posts (with a counter for each) so that one can express one's opinion on a post without having to write a new post to do so.

This is definitely on the to-do list and should be less than a couple of months away.

 

[rumpole]

Hi Rumpole,

You can access ASF's RSS feed here: https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/-/index.rss

Thanks Joe

 

[Gringotts Bank]

I had an idea for a one-off competition.

Let's choose say 10 speccy stocks (chosen randomly - so that no one is advantaged).
Then a group of practitioners of each of the following methods* can analyze and submit trades (long only) on these ten stocks.... and see which comes out ahead over a set period of time.

*some common methods
-depth reading
-(horizontal) support/resistance
-trendline support/resistance
-swing trading
-breakout trading
-pattern trading (other than breakout)
-wkykoff/vsa
-momentum
-indicator trading (hey, why not?!)
-candle/candle patterns
-gap trading
-your own method/other

You nominate your method, stock, entry time and price, sell time and price.

If "the skill of the practitioner" is your objection and reason for not participating, then how useful is the method? See? Can the method stand alone - that's what I want to know, and so do you! My bet is no method can stand alone. And if I'm right about that, why use a system at all? Why not go the dartboard method?

Position sizing must be a fixed amount and the same for everyone and every trade, for obvious reasons.
Stops and targets can be made with different methods if desired. eg. you can enter on a 'breakout' method and sell on massive momentum spike.

Joe?

 

[Joe Blow]

Joe?

Sounds fine to me. I'll even throw in some prizes if there are enough people willing to give it a go.

There will need to be someone collating all the entry and exit points. Any volunteers?

 

[So_Cynical]

Hey Joe, hope your Xmas was Merry.

I have always thought it would be a good idea to have a little more profile info in the space under our avatar when posting..this would firstly help new people get a handle on what it is that we all do and the differences between us and also help everyone with understanding where we are coming from and perhaps why we have the positions that we do.

I did a bit of an example...perhaps its a little to much info, and of course you would have an opt out option for those that want more privacy.
~

 

[DB008]

Have different types of memberships on ASF?

As an example below (hypothetical only)

ASF Silver membership - $10 per year.

• 200 PM storage
• X% discount to magazine subscription (eg, Economist/Time/Business)
• Discount on xzy broker/bonus on term deposit
• Receive quarterly market update from brokering house (Commsec/Mac Bank/Marcus Today)
• Invitation to ASF End of Financial year BBQ
• Ad free ASF browsing

ASF Gold membership - $15 per year

• 500 PM storage
• X% discount to magazine subscription (eg, Economist/Time/Business)
• Discount on xyz broker/bonus on term deposit
• Receive monthly market update from brokering house (Commsec/Mac Bank/Marcus Today)
• Invitation to finance/share trade seminar, 3 times per year
• Invitation to ASF End of Financial year BBQ
• Ad free ASF browsing

 

[DocK]

I've noticed there are quite a few of us who simply quote a post and add +1, to show agreement or endorsement of a comment. Maybe the ability to simply click an "agree" icon (definately not "like"), or a "good post/bad post" ticker would be useful?

 

[tech/a]

GG

I can see what your looking to do.
But consider this.

10 randomly selected stocks ay not give a signal for all or any of the methods
Used to trade.

A loss or even a string of losses doesn't necessarily indicate a failure of a method.
A win or a string of wins doesn't necessarily indicate a profitable method.

The only real way of getting a fairly reliable indication of a profitable method is
Thorough backtesting. From here you will have a set of statistics or blueprint
That you can compare your trading in realtime with.

You'll also have a stock selection formula which will give SPECIFIC stock selections which are
For the method trading.

Also many stand alone methods are quite poor on their own so many
Profitable systems/methods are combinations of a few ideas.

If you really want to dissect methods you need specific methods that have been disclosed
There are 4 including one of mine fully disclosed in Radges book " Unholy Grails "

 

[Joe Blow]

Many thanks for the feedback and suggestions!

I will respond to each one in more detail over the weekend.

Tech, did you intend to post that in another thread?

 

[Julia]

I've noticed there are quite a few of us who simply quote a post and add +1, to show agreement or endorsement of a comment. Maybe the ability to simply click an "agree" icon (definately not "like"), or a "good post/bad post" ticker would be useful?

Yes, I'd like an 'agree' icon also. Though I guess most of us get what the +1 means now.
I'd love to have an icon which indicates a sad sigh of "oh god, here we go again".

 

[pixel]

I've noticed there are quite a few of us who simply quote a post and add +1, to show agreement or endorsement of a comment. Maybe the ability to simply click an "agree" icon (definately not "like"), or a "good post/bad post" ticker would be useful?

+1
I'll second that; it would also help to then show the individual's tallies (# good, # bad) below their avatar.
I'd probably go one step further and distinguish between share-related posts and "sundries". Otherwise, a person rarely, if ever, expressing an opinion about share trading could achieve a high tally for just finding like-minded Labor-lovers or Greens-haters ...
(After all, this is the Aussie Stock Forum.)
from Pixel.

 

[Joe Blow]

If you agree with another suggestion, or would like to comment further on someone's else's, please post in this thread and let me know.

Doing so will not only create more food for thought, but will give me an idea of which suggestions are the most popular.

 

[pixel]

Members List:
When I registered in 2010, I found my "real" moniker (arty) was already taken.
Just by accident I came across the "owner" and found he/she had registered in 2007, but not made a single post and last visited a few months after registering.

(I thought it could actually have been possible that I had registered, but forgotten all about it; especially as the last use of that nic coincided with my starting a long holiday, during which I abstained from all trading-related activities - with the exception of a few Trinity Seminars along the way )

Maybe there is an advantage in having lots and lots of sleeping registrations on the list; but if someone hasn't visited for years, a Purge and Consolidate might be in order?

PS: DB008's suggestion of an annual membership would quite easily facilitate this. Doesn't mean there has to be necessarily a "fee" for the annual renewal; the fee could be waived, or status upgraded, if a member had been actively contributing to the various discussions.