What would attract you to a financial forum

[Alonso]

Would it be a group of experts available to answer questions....?

Would it be a wider range of topics including alternative investments such as art, classic cars & wine ....?

Would it be financial news.....?

Please tell.......

[Stu R]

Cold hard cash.

or failing that:

- access to decent market screens
- access to competent financial knowledge base
- something a bit more 'light' to skim through (all work and no play etc...)

and so on. I'll refrain from trying to work out a USP for such a site

[jeff m]

One way might be to open a thread asking which financial sites do you use daily.
I'm in the States, but my answer would be Morningstar and Bloomberg and searchable Premium Fin News from my broker.

So to get me to a forum I would first need to be attracted to the "mother site".

That doesn't mean you actually have to draw me away from Morningstar, I can use both

Experts answering specific questions is a good idea. That would attract me. I assume you have checked the legal angle. Fin advice etc....

[Alonso]

Yeh I've checked that

[NoelWatson]

An active community - forum etc, but I would worry that the market is saturated

[Mattt]

Alonso said:

Would it be a wider range of topics including alternative investments such as art, classic cars & wine ....?

[Alex]

Anonymous insider information.

[Alonso]

Alex said:

Anonymous insider information.

That's clearly illegal and could end in tears ........... Would direct access to some of the best talent in the Investment / finance market be enough ??

[Somewhatfoolish]

Alonso said:

Alex said:

Anonymous insider information.

That's clearly illegal and could end in tears ........... Would direct access to some of the best talent in the Investment / finance market be enough ??

No because of the principal/agent problem.

Anonymous insider information is not necessarily illegal and would definitely be very attractive. Kind of a whistleblower thing.

Edited by Somewhatfoolish on Monday 15th February 14:29

[Alonso]

Back to my original question .... What else