Other forums?

RenovationMan

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nearlynew

If you can ovecome your dislike of its core message, you will find HPC to be one of the best forums for economic news and analysis.

http://www.greenenergyinvestors.com/ is another good site.

Graham_Devon

RenovationMan wrote: »

I have only recently started using forums (MSE and http://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/) but would be interested in other forums that cover financial stuff like this board but without all the bull and bear rubbish. Does anyone have any recommendations?

p.s. NOT HPC!

If you find one, can I follow? :A

RenovationMan wrote: »

isn't HPC where all this 'bear' and 'bull' claptrap came from?

What is HPC's core message and why do you think I have a dislike of it?

I don't post on HPC. But you do get clear explanations and real debate over there. Many will claim otherwise, but they have mostly been banned from the site, which is an issue.

But have a look, and have a look at some of the threads. Even the disagreements are polite, and no one appears to be attached to various other peoples legs constantly humping.

Indeed, the humping gets pulled over here, when we are given several threads about what a poster on another forum is saying and how they are so so wrong.

nearlynew

RenovationMan wrote: »

What is HPC's core message and why do you think I have a dislike of it?

p.s. thanks for the link - just looking at it now.

Well, the clue is in its name


As for the link I posted, I think you will probably find THIS sub-forum of real interest.

chucky

RenovationMan wrote: »

I have only recently started using forums (MSE and http://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/) but would be interested in other forums that cover financial stuff like this board but without all the bull and bear rubbish. Does anyone have any recommendations?

p.s. NOT HPC!

fool.co.uk is interesting. never posted there though.

HPC.co.uk is for people with the economic Armageddon mind set. very few credible posters over there.

wotsthat

This is the best site if you want to 'debate house prices and the economy'.

I've posted on fool sometime ago but there's still the bull and bear thing going on. They do have a boards just for bulls and one for bears but obviously gets a bit boring.

I used to post on a satellite TV site about receivers and signal encryption and so on. If you think it's bad here it was worse there - people really would have come to blows about which satellite receiver was best.

Thrugelmir

Recommend Citywire and Trustnet websites.

geneer

RenovationMan wrote: »

Where did you get the idea from that I would dislike a house price crash?

When you said you last bought in 2007 maybe?

Generali

I like fool.co.uk. The house price forum has kinda died a death as prices stagnated and it lost its best poster.

The Paulypilot's Pub boards are very good:

Economy: http://boards.fool.co.uk/paulypilots-pub-macro-topics-51686.aspx?mid=12217819
Other stuff: http://boards.fool.co.uk/paulypilots-pub-other-stuff-51700.aspx?mid=12168070
Share ideas: http://boards.fool.co.uk/paulypilots-pub-share-ideas-51144.aspx?mid=12206759

Fool is definitely an investments based website and the posts tend to reflect this slant. For example, discussions of the economy will tend to shift towards how you can make money from it. Even the Football Fools board can start dissecting the balance sheet of various football clubs!

When it comes to looking at the investment boards, just be careful of 'group-think'.

On this (and ADFN which I tend not to use as I think it has more 'share rampers'*) you often see a tendency towards group-think, where everyone starts to see things in the same light. You particularly see this on share boards (there are forums for each individual share) where all the posters have a position in a small company and will keep talking up the positive news as the share price drops to zero, shouting away any dissenters in the meantime.

















*people looking to promote a dodgy share for their own gain

setmefree2

Generali wrote: »

When it comes to looking at the investment boards, just be careful of 'group-think'.

On this (and ADFN which I tend not to use as I think it has more 'share rampers'*) you often see a tendency towards group-think, where everyone starts to see things in the same light. You particularly see this on share boards (there are forums for each individual share) where all the posters have a position in a small company and will keep talking up the positive news as the share price drops to zero, shouting away any dissenters in the meantime.

*people looking to promote a dodgy share for their own gain

Yup the same is true of the MSE Investment & Savings board...