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[babe!]

Originally Posted by EIC

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thanks. thanks alot.

[babe!]

some things i have learnt:
i spend about 1hr or more each day on this forum and it is imperative for me to know what i have come to know as per investing in stocks since i joined SMN over 2month or so ago. there are about six things i' ve identified.
1. Give Back.
this site is replete with snr members and others who have chosing to give freely. imagine if KOD is miserly with his tips, Zain with her analysis, and c kenneth keeping his contrarian opinion to himself, and all others on this site not putting in? wow! perhaps many portfolio will be in tatters or atleast the guy twenty percent would have changed is name to one percent!
what goes around comes around. i can only sincerely pray that all snr members' portfolio on this site appreciate by leaps and bounds. i pray their altruistic contributions be rewarded in many other ways too.
give. either of your time, money or yourself.
2. trade! trade! trade!!!
making money (on nse) is like going to lagos island from ikeja via ikorodu road on a monday morning. waking up early, and the type of car you drive is not the only factor that determine your getting there on time. granted you will be there on time if you hit the road by 4am. but most importantly you have to overtake(carefully of course!!!) others on that road. there are too many bystanders on that road just like thare are lots of greater fool on the market cycle in cycle out. this does not mean u shouldn't also invest for the longterm. but u gotta trade!
3. buy right.
i use to buy stock every now and then, (i had read a beginners book on cost averaging). now i know u really had to bid your time. i still can't remember what i was doing when there was a bargain awhile ago. profiting in this market is also about having funds (BBHS) at the right time. it may not be there if u don't plan 4 it to be there o.
4.protect yourself.
don't joke. the market is not father xmas. and not for kids really. protect yourself in every way possible. good portfolio balance etc. one thing i really learnt is that you have to put price and date limits on your orders. there are others as well. but those are minimum. unless u are desperate.
5. keep winners. cut losers.
i keep doing the opposite.coming of age now though. GOD help me!!
lastly,
6.Do your Research.
Easier said than done. truthfully i have not improved much in this area. which is painful really. it's also why am writing in this thread...
a) how can SMN evaluate itself, viz service provided here. how can it monitors its' performance and its' impact?? bright ideas anyone?
b) can SMN be a one stop centre for NSE info-related services?? after spending about 1hr here daily, its painful to have to keeping surfing for tips here and there. for investment purposes those time could just have been wasted. well, i just used a web crawler to mirror entire TRW. hopefully i can study it later.
i have divided services i currently enjoy at SMN into 3 areas
1. Financial tips: SMN excel here, i will willing give 95%, though i must say KOD is getting too cryptic!!
2. Resources: resources and data are painfully not readily available. some members have said this may confuse beginners into making bad decisions. hnm. this is indirect censorship!! pls provide it and let everyone use it as he or she likes. allow me to say there's little or no censorship on this site.my honest opinion. so i wil give a borderline 50%
3. Advocacy: not much is apparent in this area!! a low 20% or so.

which of this service will i be willing to pay for??
i may not want to pay as in month in month out (remember, i be beginner!), but i could donate now and then. that means yearly or so really.lol. so if it's okay with the site ethos pls, put that little button that says "donate".

on a final funny note, there this "signature" i really don't understand.
"The minute you stop having fun investing stop investing . . . . . ME"
i have tried to have fun investing really. it's just that every time i try to smile, the market sneezes, and my smiles turns out to be more of a grimace!!! oga NOSA2, abeg how U dey do am??

[EIC]

Thanks so much for your analysis and suggestions babe! . This your feedback is highly valuable and helpful to us.

One thing we would like further light on is your suggestion around advocacy. Please could you explain this a bit more and what you would suggest SMN do in this area?

Many thanks indeed.

[babe!]

the stockbroker thread on this site is wonderful! i just feel more should be done in monitoring erring stockbroking firm and passing it on to SEC, on behalf of members! a structured form could be constructed. firms with least complaint could/should obviously get more referrals.
really any thing that is pro-investors!!(especially members of SMN.)
a lot depends on SMN goal and vision, and also legal hurdles. so am particularly happy for whatz being done already.

[knightofdelta]

Originally Posted by babe!

...

1. Financial tips: SMN excel here, i will willing give 95%, though i must say KOD is getting too cryptic!!
2. Resources: resources and data are painfully not readily available. some members have said this may confuse beginners into making bad decisions. hnm. this is indirect censorship!! pls provide it and let everyone use it as he or she likes. allow me to say there's little or no censorship on this site.my honest opinion. so i wil give a borderline 50%
3. Advocacy: not much is apparent in this area!! a low 20% or so.

****Runs for cover before getting hit with fresh tomatoes****

[nosa2]

Originally Posted by babe!

some things i have learnt:
i spend about 1hr or more each day on this forum and it is imperative for me to know what i have come to know as per investing in stocks since i joined SMN over 2month or so ago. there are about six things i' ve identified.
1. Give Back.
this site is replete with snr members and others who have chosing to give freely. imagine if KOD is miserly with his tips, Zain with her analysis, and c kenneth keeping his contrarian opinion to himself, and all others on this site not putting in? wow! perhaps many portfolio will be in tatters or atleast the guy twenty percent would have changed is name to one percent!
what goes around comes around. i can only sincerely pray that all snr members' portfolio on this site appreciate by leaps and bounds. i pray their altruistic contributions be rewarded in many other ways too.
give. either of your time, money or yourself.
2. trade! trade! trade!!!
making money (on nse) is like going to lagos island from ikeja via ikorodu road on a monday morning. waking up early, and the type of car you drive is not the only factor that determine your getting there on time. granted you will be there on time if you hit the road by 4am. but most importantly you have to overtake(carefully of course!!!) others on that road. there are too many bystanders on that road just like thare are lots of greater fool on the market cycle in cycle out. this does not mean u shouldn't also invest for the longterm. but u gotta trade!
3. buy right.
i use to buy stock every now and then, (i had read a beginners book on cost averaging). now i know u really had to bid your time. i still can't remember what i was doing when there was a bargain awhile ago. profiting in this market is also about having funds (BBHS) at the right time. it may not be there if u don't plan 4 it to be there o.
4.protect yourself.
don't joke. the market is not father xmas. and not for kids really. protect yourself in every way possible. good portfolio balance etc. one thing i really learnt is that you have to put price and date limits on your orders. there are others as well. but those are minimum. unless u are desperate.
5. keep winners. cut losers.
i keep doing the opposite.coming of age now though. GOD help me!!
lastly,
6.Do your Research.
Easier said than done. truthfully i have not improved much in this area. which is painful really. it's also why am writing in this thread...
a) how can SMN evaluate itself, viz service provided here. how can it monitors its' performance and its' impact?? bright ideas anyone?
b) can SMN be a one stop centre for NSE info-related services?? after spending about 1hr here daily, its painful to have to keeping surfing for tips here and there. for investment purposes those time could just have been wasted. well, i just used a web crawler to mirror entire TRW. hopefully i can study it later.
i have divided services i currently enjoy at SMN into 3 areas
1. Financial tips: SMN excel here, i will willing give 95%, though i must say KOD is getting too cryptic!!
2. Resources: resources and data are painfully not readily available. some members have said this may confuse beginners into making bad decisions. hnm. this is indirect censorship!! pls provide it and let everyone use it as he or she likes. allow me to say there's little or no censorship on this site.my honest opinion. so i wil give a borderline 50%
3. Advocacy: not much is apparent in this area!! a low 20% or so.

which of this service will i be willing to pay for??
i may not want to pay as in month in month out (remember, i be beginner!), but i could donate now and then. that means yearly or so really.lol. so if it's okay with the site ethos pls, put that little button that says "donate".

on a final funny note, there this "signature" i really don't understand.
"The minute you stop having fun investing stop investing . . . . . ME"
i have tried to have fun investing really. it's just that every time i try to smile, the market sneezes, and my smiles turns out to be more of a grimace!!! oga NOSA2, abeg how U dey do am??

its not about smiles or tears, its about enjoying what you do, let me give an example , a small business owner never closes he/she goes home and plans for the business, while their workers close for the day. They have to enjoy what they do even if they go out to the beach or anywhere else, if they spot an opportunity their business brain kicks in, it should be same with an investor, if you read a non financial newspaper and see a news item that senate is about to pass a law mandating co location of masts or increasing military activities in niger delta, your average person who buys shares but does not have fun doing it would just take it at face value, but as an investor who enjoys his job/hobby you would deduce that if the bill is passed it would greatly affect companies that offer such services, and increased activity in delta region may affect japul, so ask yourself do you have fun doing what you do, cause if you do in the long term it would reward you greatly

[amajike]

@ EIC I noticed that the "Thanks" and "Thanked" figures of all forum members were reset, was this on purpose or wasit a system failure?

[hispy99]

Originally Posted by amajike

@ EIC I noticed that the "Thanks" and "Thanked" figures of all forum members were reset, was this on purpose or wasit a system failure?

EIC explained that the old "thank you" data was lost during the last system upgrade. Check post #234.

[EIC]

Originally Posted by amajike

@ EIC I noticed that the "Thanks" and "Thanked" figures of all forum members were reset, was this on purpose or wasit a system failure?

@amjike : Yes, it was due to an error during our recent upgrade. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[williamschichi]

@EIC,Please i noticed that if i dont visit SMN in some few hours,i dont get reports to any latest comment made to my email box,actually,am always on mobile and prefer to read via this means because of my job type or nature and only visit SMN on weekends for a long readup or writedown.

Please,with due respect,is it in your power to make it a permanment subcribtion to my mail box?

i/we,really appreciate your good works and u have change lives with this site.

i would look forward to your favourable consideration

LONG LIVE SMN

[EIC]

Thanks williamschichi.

We can arrange to integrate specific threads to a mailing list. That way when you subscribe to the mailing list , you will always receive an email whenever someone makes a post to the thread.

We can provide this feature, but it will take considerable time and effort to develop. If we provide this feature it will have to be at a cost. Is a cost for this feature something you are willing to consider?

We can provide this feature, as well as a personalized blog on SMN forum for members who will be willing to pay a small subscription. Having a blog on SMN forum will enable members get lots of traffic to their content, as well as share their views with a ready investment community. However, we will only do this if sufficient members indicate interest.

[williamschichi]

Originally Posted by eic

thanks williamschichi.

We can arrange to integrate specific threads to a mailing list. That way when you subscribe to the mailing list , you will always receive an email whenever someone makes a post to the thread.

We can provide this feature, but it will take considerable time and effort to develop. If we provide this feature it will have to be at a cost. Is a cost for this feature something you are willing to consider?

We can provide this feature, as well as a personalized blog on smn forum for members who will be willing to pay a small subscription. Having a blog on smn forum will enable members get lots of traffic to their content, as well as share their views with a ready investment community. However, we will only do this if sufficient members indicate interest.

@eic,sure go on and comeup with the main thing i will be willing to,i am very much intrested.hope to hear from you very soon.thanks alot in advance.

[EIC]

Originally Posted by williamschichi

@eic,sure go on and comeup with the main thing i will be willing to,i am very much intrested.hope to hear from you very soon.thanks alot in advance.

Working on it.

[EIC]

Originally Posted by Monwowo

Hi EIC,
Is it going to be of value to SMN members, especially the newbies, to create a section which shows either the top ten or twenty holdings of members (which is either updated quarterly or as may be found practicable) or to have a section showing a investors' poll of which coy will outperform or underperform the market (based on the investor's gut, estimation or research) or both? The investors' poll is much like the CAPS motley fools' poll: The CAPS Stock Rating

I believed that many of our members have hit the bull's eyes many times with their intelligent and accurate picks, predictions and judgement. We can harness this into a pool of community intelligence sort of, this will hopefully benefit all members.

Based on Monwowo's suggestion, would it be valuable to provide a forum where only a select group of senior forum members can make stock recommendations ? Or would it be better done as a periodic poll where everyone can vote on stocks to buy / hold ?

[nosa2]

Originally Posted by EIC

Based on Monwowo's suggestion, would it be valuable to provide a forum where only a select group of senior forum members can make stock recommendations ? Or would it be better done as a periodic poll where everyone can vote on stocks to buy / hold ?

personally i think this already happens, as any newbie who is serious and reads thru the forum would get an idea of whats happening in the market and the various risk levels attached to the various securities, formalising this and putting it in one place may sound smart but to me its not needed

[Gengen]

Originally Posted by Gengen

EIC,
The drop down menu "Get Posts" used to get New Posts and old posts from one to seven days has dissappeared. Only "New Posts" is showing in this position. (I am using Internet Explorer browser) Please rectify.

EIC,
Are you still planning to return the "Get Posts" drop down menu?

[EIC]

Originally Posted by Gengen

EIC,
Are you still planning to return the "Get Posts" drop down menu?

Done. Its now called the "New Posts" drop down.

[babe!]

i was trying to invite my brother to this site when i realize there's no link for that! is this an oversight?? can we have a link that make it easier to invite friends and family to this site? i had to leave the url of the site on his Facebook wall...
thanks.

[hispy99]

Originally Posted by babe!

i was trying to invite my brother to this site when i realize there's no link for that! is this an oversight?? can we have a link that make it easier to invite friends and family to this site? i had to leave the url of the site on his Facebook wall...
thanks.

So when we see a member with forum Id "guy!", we should know he's your brother, abi?

[EIC]

Originally Posted by babe!

i was trying to invite my brother to this site when i realize there's no link for that! is this an oversight?? can we have a link that make it easier to invite friends and family to this site? i had to leave the url of the site on his Facebook wall...
thanks.

Thanks babe! We are working on this.