Your suggestions please for new forum categories

[Thierry Martin]

I am reorganizing the forums to make them easier to use, and I would like to know if you feel that any new categories are needed. I just added an ETF section, because we had a lot of threads on that subject, and I moved the existing threads there.

How would you feel about sections for Commodities Futures? Gold? Chinese stocks? Mutual funds? I would like input on this before making any more changes, to see where the interest is.

[flybynight]

I think the new catagories would be helpful.

Thanks

[XOM]

A second room in chat geared more towards trading. Perhaps rename the current room as Casual Trade & Chat and the second as Serious Trade or something along those lines.

[netwrangler]

Originally Posted by XOM

A second room in chat geared more towards trading. Perhaps rename the current room as Casual Trade & Chat and the second as Serious Trade or something along those lines.

Are you suggesting there be no puns or limericks in the second chat room?

Ah, XOM, where's your fun-loving spirit?

Seriously, what do you see as the difference between the rooms?
And how would that difference be enforced?

[smartinvestor30]

Originally Posted by Thierry Martin

I am reorganizing the forums to make them easier to use, and I would like to know if you feel that any new categories are needed. I just added an ETF section, because we had a lot of threads on that subject, and I moved the existing threads there.

How would you feel about sections for Commodities Futures? Gold? Chinese stocks? Mutual funds? I would like input on this before making any more changes, to see where the interest is.

Yes that is exactly what I was going to say, one for Futures please and one to discuss commodities.

1. Futures- discuss your positions/strategies on futures contracts here

2. Commodities - discuss speculation on Gold and other precious metals, commodities etc

You get the idea just fix the "tags" because the ones above are not perfect obviously.

[XOM]

I have no problem with the jokes, zingers and one -liners at all, however there are times when I'd like to concentrate soley on making money. The idea of sharing trade ideas can become lost in the sea of humor that is the predominant theme in chat.

I would hope that enforcement would not be necessary, leave the current room as the default entry room and those that wish to exchange trade ideas more than they wish to merely socialize can enter the second room. I realize that a room can be made by anyone and even password protected, the drawbacks to that are that someone has to create the room every day and if there is a password the people that are not given it will likley resent those that are.

Anyway, just a suggestion as asked for.

[Hondaboy]

Xom doesn't like me in the chat room .

[blaster]

Originally Posted by XOM

A second room in chat geared more towards trading. Perhaps rename the current room as Casual Trade & Chat and the second as Serious Trade or something along those lines.

I suggest that u don't chat at all and focus on ur trading

[ChartShark]

How about a "Single and looking" chatroom? That would be swell.

Seriously though, I don't know what additional rooms would do aside from fragment the already relatively sparse population in the chatroom during the day. I'd rather have 15-20 people (of which maybe half are talking on a regular basis) in a room talking about the market, and/or other random things than a choice of 5 rooms with 3-4 people in them chatting about super specific stock market secrets. (Check out my sweet math skillz)

Don't mind me though, I'm still rather new.

[aiki14]

Originally Posted by blaster

I suggest that u don't chat at all and focus on ur trading

No offense Blaster, but you may not have given your comment enough thought.
In the year or two I have known XOM, I have found him to be real sharp, and I tend to pay attention when he offers his views, especially in the energy arena.
No doubt the chat room gets "off topic", and occasionally over focused on one stock or topic, I don't know how that can be prevented (or even if it should).