winston wrote:
Dear All,
We would appreciate any feedbacks that you might have on how we can improve the forum.
Winston
My feedback as follows, please:1. Huatopedia is an informative, enriching and educational forum for investment as well as for other aspects of life.
2. There are a number of forum participants who not only selflessly sacrificed much of their time to share their valuable knowledge, investment skills, information and administrating the forum, but also generously share their investment views, market perceptions and daily market outlook with others. Their sacrifice and generosity are most commendable.
My suggestions, please:Suggestion 1Create a thread for brainstorming current investment opportunities.Q: What is this thread, ‘Brainstorming Current Investment Opportunities’ for?
A: People who have potentially high-probability trading/investment ideas can post them here to share and to brainstorm with Huatopedia forum participants for mutual benefit.
Q: How does this thread, ‘Brainstorming Current Investment Opportunities’ work?
A: Take for eg: on Wednesday, 26.11.08, Mr A noticed that palm oil price which had fallen from July 2008 high to September 2008 low had been recently creeping up. He reasoned out that since the share price of palm oil related companies had fallen a lot already, they might start to rise, with the presence of other positive market indications.
With the existence of ‘Brainstorming Current Investment Opportunities’ thread, he put up a post of his observation and deduction that taking a long position on Wilmar, a leader in the palm oil sector, had a high probability of yielding profits.
Other forum participants could then post their views, their TA, FA and other knowledge of Wilmar and the palm oil industry.
Q: There is already a Wilmar thread. Why don’t just post there?
A: Members who don’t ‘play’ Wilmar are quite likely to skip this thread, or they may only read it when they are very free, probably at night after dinner because most of the time posts there are of reports. By then opportunities could be over.
Q: What topics to post in this thread?
A: Any topic. It can be on DBS or Wilmar or Gold or …
Q: Won’t it mess up the forum?
A: Forum Admin may need to have the extra work of shifting the posts after awhile to the threads under their titles.
Q: Won’t this thread be construed as influencing readers to take a position in a stock? If the consensus of opinion turns out to be wrong, won’t it be blamed for misleading readers?
A: Forum Admin may need to state some disclaimers.
Q: Are there other benefits for forum participants?
A:
1) With the ‘Brainstorming Current Investment Opportunities’ thread, people who do not have much free time, can zoom into this thread to read the day’s speciality investment opportunities, hot from the oven.
2) At present, people who post in the investment threads are mainly the more investment savvy ones. The ‘Brainstorming Current Investment Opportunities’ thread being for brainstorming, opens a window for less savvy investors to come forth to post their ideas.
3) The brainstorming will be educational for the less savvy investors. It also offers different perceptions to the savvy ones.
4) As this is a brainstorming thread, not an information thread, more of the savvy investors would feel more free to express their views, and more of the less savvy ones would feel less inhibited to express their 'look-like-not-so-clever' views.
5) This thread serves as an avenue for people to cross-check their potentially high-probability investment ideas quickly with others.
Q: Who will benefit?
A: All readers. Sometimes non-savvy investors may have great investment ideas.
Q: Will it be feasible to have a template to guide contributors?
A: A draft template as follows may be helpful, needs improvements though:
1. Proposition: Take a long position on Wilmar.
2. Reasons:
2.1. Palm oil price reached a high of >3000 in July 2008 and fallen to a low of …
2.2. Palm oil related companies’ performance correlated with...
2.3. Wilmar is this industry’s leader…
3) Technical Analysis Support:
4) Fundamental Analysis Support:
5) Other Supports:
6) Vested:
Q: Isn’t it a ‘cheapskate’ way of ‘fishing’ for investment tips and not doing your own homework?
A: Anyone who puts up a proposition for brainstorming has to have done some research, and/or made some intellectual observation and deduction. Contributions to the brainstorming are voluntary.
Suggestion 2 Have a Thread with tables for the counter-parties of trades done.Q: How does the design of this thread look like?
A: A rough idea: Have some blank tables, eg the one below. Forum participants fill in the data of their trades. Admin may need to shift them according to alphabetical order.
I believe Admin will have a much better idea of the design for this thread, if deemed suitable.
Q: How does the table look like?
A: Something like as follows, may need improvements though.
Counter-Parties of TradeS/N Stock Date Long/Short Lots Price Counter- Party Contributor Comments
1 Wilmar 26.11.08 Long 20 $2.45 Kim Eng Cherry Target:
Cut-loss:
2 Wilmar 27.11.08 Sell 15 $2.80 Phillip
3 Wilmar 27.11.08 Sell 5 $2.80 OCBC
(Admin: Help if Boleh! Table for above data Lost in the Post!) Q: What for?
A: To help detect Funds’ activities in the market and also in certain counters.
Q: For what?
A: If eg, when we buy into a stock, a very high % of the counter parties are eg, MSCO, CSFB, we know these 2 funds are selling.
Q: Why need to use the forum to find out this info?
A: I don’t think the info of who are selling/buying how much is available to the retail investors.
One person’s own data is not enough for drawing a conclusion. If a high % of the forum participants are willing to contribute, we will have a bigger pool of data. This, though not really conclusive, is better than nothing.
As a matter of fact, throughout the months of April, May, June, July and August, whenever my friends bought into Sino-Enviroment, A very high % of the counter parties were MSCO and CSFB. The knowledge helped them to cut loss fast.
Q: Will the data be authentic?
A: Users have to use his/her own judgement.
Please ignore the above 2 suggestions if deemed unsuitable.