richfool wrote:Melonfool wrote:That board exists - Share Ideas. Or Investment Strategies. Or you could use Portfolio Review. There are also 'sector' boards where you can post about the shares in that sector.
The fact that people don't post much on other boards doesn't mean they are not there. Topics have to be initiated - HYP has some dedicated people who do that, so the board gets busy. Make another board the place where YOU dedicate yourself to starting topics.
Yes, "Share Ideas" is a valid point. I had previously seen it more as a board for more specialised stock suggestions - e.g. small caps etc, but you are quite right, there's no reason why one shouldn't post/discuss Non-HYP FTSE 100 stocks there.
I had ruled out the Portfolio Review board, as I was thinking of single stocks. Similarly I didn't see Investment Strategies as appropriate.
I recollect on the Motley Fool boards, whilst stocks were actively discussed on the HYP Practical board, their alternative for Non-HYP stocks seemed to be their Stocks A-Z board, but on the odd occasion I posted on that, the post seemed to be "lost in hyperspace", rarely receiving a reply, or if it did, it was many weeks later, when someone happened to stumble on it..
The Lemon Fool "Share Ideas" does seem to be used a lot more.
A key point I should have included in my above reply was: IF one posts on the "Share Ideas" board, would it be read by many people? I suggest that a large proportion of the true HYP'ers would not read it.
I think this is one of the reasons why topics on the HYP Practical board so often get pulled off topic, -- because "Non-HYP" interested readers want to discuss broader non-hyp issues relating to the many stocks that are the subject of threads on that board.