Raging Bull Message Boards

Pros: User posts and information, free-real time quotes
Cons: Caution on the source of posts

How else can you find information on stocks that you just can't find information on?

I suggest signing up and reading the posts on ragingbull.com. The site gives the user not just access to its many message boards but also free real-time...

Pros: great place for newbies and veterans to stock trading
Cons: pump-and-dump, short selling and other scam postings

Last June my dad became really interested in researching stocks and trading online. He was on the Internet all night looking up stocks that had potential. He would look through Investor's Business Daily and when one peaked his interest he would go...

Pros: Lively discussion of just about any stock out there
Cons: Sometimes a little like a chat room

I signed up for Raging Bull about a year ago when I started investing (small sums) in penny stocks. You can do basic research on Raging Bull, as there are links to charts and articles on many stocks, including penny (OTCBB) stocks. But I do most of my...

Pros: Includes all stocks, including OTC, Many posters
Cons: Use with caution

I first became involved in the Raging Bull Message Board when a stock I owned (PDIM--great restaurants like Koo Koo Roo and Hamburger Hamlet, but a lousy stock) got kicked off the NASDAQ.

We had had an active group of stockholders who...

Pros: Member history, MBs on every stock imaginable.
Cons: Must be careful of info

There are many financial websites available on the internet and nearly all of them offer message boards to their members. These message boards are filled with people's individual opinions on every stock imaginable. Sometimes there is good information,...

Pros: Amusing , sometimes informative
Cons: Too many nonsense posters

I don't so much heed advice of these message boards, but the informative ones provide you with links to do research on a given company, an excellent resource particularly for the penny stock investor, because finding information on a penny stock can be...

Pros: Fast, many boards, free signup
Cons: Some ads, some mouthy people

Raging Bull has been a mainstay in the investing community. It has loads of information on various financial topics and has a huge userbase. One of the things that makes the site so great is its huge message board. There are literally thousands of...

Pros: tons of info,easy to use
Cons: spammers

I have been using Ragingbull.com now for a little over a year an I truly have enjoyed it. It is a lot like epinions in many ways except for the constant spamming that goes on in most of the forums, but there is an ignore button. It won't get rid of all...

Pros: concentrates several types of financial info into one site
Cons: message boards contain some off-topic and poorly-written posts

Browsing the message boards on Raging Bull can be quite a bit of fun, but investors must be very careful with the advice they see. The fact that this is a financial web site should clue any smart person into the idea that the people that use it are...

Pros: great place to research IPO's, many good postings
Cons: a lot of messages with little or no content (spam)

Since stock message board postings differ widely in quality, it is difficult to know in advance which one to go to when researching investments. For a specific company, I first scan through posts on Silicon Investor, Raging Bull, the Motley Fool, and...

Pros: democratic, free, well-organized
Cons: reliability of information, and riddled with scams

There are a number of traps and scams operating, but they can be avoided. Here's how to get the most out of Raging Bull.

1. Beware of "insider information". It probably isn't. Would a top-level employee of a company really risk...

Pros: easy to use and you can ignore posters
Cons: sometimes slow

Raging Bull bulletin boards are fairly easy to use and have a few features that make it nice. There is an ignore button so that you don't have to see posts from those that are rude or flamers. Posters seem to be a intelligent and provide good...

Pros: Well designed, great user features
Cons: Posters have their own hidden agendas with every post.

Raging Bull is now probably the most posted on "stock discussion" board on the net. Orginally set up as a free alternative to "Silicon Investor" (who used to charge $100 to join but now have free registration thanks to RB's success)...

Pros: members are posting, can ignore abusers, compiles news from many sources
Cons: 50% of posts are self-fulfilling prophecies

Any message board relies on rumors. However, as an investor, you must decide which rumors (posts) to believe. I have found that nearly half of all posts on Raging Bull are from people with a self fulfilling prophecy.

If an investor is...

Pros: lots of info, very specific to stock, stocks move on rumors
Cons: too unreliable, too much information, people posting are just trying to make a quick buck.

I really like the way epinions is set up. It is a way for a community of people to get together and share opinions and inside tips on various items. Raging Bull is very similar, except it is about stocks. One very important element that Raging Bull is...