Recent debate about moderation policies and the desirability of an investment hub set me thinking...
We each have our own favourite investment sites and we'd all like to make sure we don't miss anything that might be useful posted on any of them. Twitter is a very useful medium for alerting others about quality articles but suffers from one disadvantage: it is a transient medium and you can easily miss an article that you should have read. So, what we need is somewhere where all the links to "good stuff" can be found... well this may be it!
Let's try an experiment and post links to anything useful to our investment community here - whereever it's been posted. Please post the link with a brief description and, maybe, what you like about it, but keep it short, twitter stylee. Clearly there is a risk that this thread could be swamped by junk and spam but the voting system will help to highlight what is worth reading and what isn't and I do have the power to moderate spam. I also suggest putting an * after a link if accessing it may require membership, subscription etc. (e.g. FT articles, posts/articles on ShareSoc's member network)
So, if you come across a quality investment-related post/discussion/article, please cross-link to it here. Will be interesting to see whether this works. We can develop "rules" (if necessary) as this evolves. I have created a separate thread for Stocko-hub meta-discussion, so we can keep this thread "clean" for just investment links: http://www.stockopedia.co.uk/content/stocko-hub-metadiscussion-68419/
Thanks,
Mark
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Looks a good idea Mark. It should reward Stockopedia for showing a more liberal attitude than TMF, by increasing readership and perhaps getting those who read more than post (me included) to post a bit more.
Post quality here is undoubtedly good, and control of trolls and those with a grudge more effective than TMF, which is imho the only other place where the ratio of informative posts to drivel is reasonable, but to me stockopedia needs to get the volume of posters into a geometric progression until they get to the point where they become of interest to the trolls and grudge bearers. We would then have to hope that the moderators could maintain sanity and ruthlessly ban trolls and grudge bearers!
Regards.
Premier Oil (LON:PMO) announces sail-away of FPSO for Huntingdon field, due on station in 3 days time: http://www.investegate.co.uk/Article.aspx?id=201210011036275728N
I have just spoken to Premier and they have advised that initial production of 12kbopd, net to Premier, is expected from this development. :0)
Good stuff, guys - we've no problems wlth people posting links (if they explain their significance so people know what they are clicking on). The Web is one big conversation, and there's no point trying to silo-it. The only reason we'd moderate (I think) is where a) someone is posting links that are just self-serving without admitting it or b) someone has a bee in their bonnet and they are drowning out the rest of the conversation. Hopefully, that's a good thing.
As a starter for 10, I mentioned this on Twitter but here's a interview with French Value Investor David Pastel on DFS Furniture and Carpetright (LON:CPR): http://greatinvestors.tv/video/?currentPage=2 . It's interesting to hear him chat through his rationale and realise this supposedly well plugged in institutional investor seems to know little or no more than an individual investor would, which I found heartening. BTW, that whole site has some really good video interviews with various investors.
p.s. Another really great site with top-notch content is this one - it does what it says on the tin: http://www.hedgefundletters.com/
Excellent write up of Chime Communications (LON:CHW) Mello presentation: http://boards.fool.co.uk/mello-chime-chw-12652055.aspx
Good comment on China PMI data: http://www.news-to-use.com/2012/10/china-manufacturing-pmi-remains-weak.html
Now reports on US: http://www.news-to-use.com/2012/10/conflicting-u-s-pmi-reports.html and global: http://www.news-to-use.com/2012/10/global-manufacturing-pmi-up-0-8-to-48-9.html manufacturing data.
Looks to me like caution is advised regarding expectations for many manufacturers and raw materials producers, in the near term.
In reply to muckshifter, post #1
Thanks muckshifter,
I've replied to the last part of your comment here: http://www.stockopedia.co.uk/content/stocko-hub-metadiscussion-68419/?comment=3#3 and would ask others also to put any "metadiscussion" there too.
Let's keep this thread for the links.
Cheers,
Mark