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There area a lot of stock forums and financial investing sites. Further, I don't know of any blue chips (large cap by definition) below about $10B in market cap. Your threshold of $25M is barely a nano-cap.

My smallest market cap holding is NFI with a market cap of just under $2B and I doubt it is considered a blue chip. All other holdings have market caps in excess of $10B (and nominally, though not necessarily, all blue chip).

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Bud said
Disagree we need it for sure the asset classes are connected.

Peter be aware of competitors trying to dissuade u.

Fw was very harsh on gic investors they have stock n fund forums. Altared arent u a regular there not suggesting why ur against

You could put.a mod on a stock forum  

AltaRed is a prolific poster on another message board, of which I'm also non-active member, yes, but he's not a moderator or co-owner of that board (as far as I'm aware). Thus, he's not exactly a "competitor".

Also, I took AltaRed's response as a highly tentative, "soft oppose" based on your initial proposal. In light of my response and further responses, I suspect he could be persuaded to support. I also didn't take Dean's response to be a particularly strong opposition to a separate discussion forum, too, and he, too, could likely be persuaded to support your proposal with added, logical, and strong rationale. Have I got that right, Dean and AltaRed?

Cheers,
Doug

Bud said
25mill to accomodate fallin angels mostly for example for someone who owned a breX for example before it was delisted. Also the odd microcap with reputable directors. 2nd cup market cap 30mill etc there are some names out there in the cheap seats that may have some life left..  

Yes, that's true that micro- and nano-cap stocks can be potentially good value despite their small market caps. Likewise, large cap stocks can be dogs and, eventually, worthless. However, in the latter case, there's a process under which their continuous downward pressure in stock price reduces them from being a "mega cap" to a "large cap" to a "small cap" and so forth. I also personally believe it's important to define market cap sizes differently in Canadian and U.S. contexts. Thus, I wouldn't put a $200 billion requirement on being a "mega cap" in the Canadian context. And, of course, you have some companies that are trading on sheer momentum and potential for growth due to favourable business sectors (i.e., Shopify) that have now become one of Canada's 10 largest publicly-traded companies. Despite being a "large cap" company, I wouldn't characterize Shopify as "blue chip". They have incredibly low barriers to entry. Indeed, privately-held Automattic makes their WooCommerce software available for free and is arguably better than Shopify, from what I've seen. 😉

Cheers,
Doug

One of the reasons I think THIS forum succeeds is that it is not full of a lot of clutter.
Not a good idea to add stocks IMO. There are other places to go for that, where it is their focus.

There are occasionally subjects that come up which overlap with stocks or extend our understanding of fixed income, and I think those do have a place here as they add perspective to the main subject of interest-bearing investments. These would include market-linked GICs, money market or similar funds, bonds, historical relationship between returns for cash/GICs vs stocks, proportion of assets to invest in fixed income vs equities, some balanced funds (e.g. Mawer), etc. However, none of these has drawn sufficient traffic to warrant their own sub-forum yet.

I'm not that familiar with Financial Wisdom Forum or Canadian Money Forum, but I used to look at Bogleheads ( sister site of FWF ) and found it was a few people posting all the time who were fairly elitist and quick to ban you if you stepped out of THEIR line. That turned me off of FWF whose website is built to look the same way.

I think this forum is just fine the way that it is, information and discussion of savings rates and related items.
There are plenty of forums that discuss stocks and the stock market without getting off track here. This is one of the better sites that I have come across to find up to date on rates, offers, etc.

FWIW,I have been a member of Financial Wisdom site for over 10 years and find it to be the best site on the internet for discussion of various issues.

The seem to have a lot of very knowledgeable posters that post quite often. Shakespeare, Norbert, Norm come to mind. James Hymas stops by occasonially with insights on the preferred market. IMO, his own blog on prefs,Prefblog is unbeatable.

If someone wishes they may ask all the questions they want and will usually get an answer but don't go over there and start acting stupid because they don't suffer fools gladly.

AltaRed said

Bogleheads does run a tight ship. Less so at FWF which uses the same software package. CMF is more of a free for all. Depends on what one is looking for. Personally, I like a high signal to noise ratio and civility and people who can spell and use some grammar.  

I've been attracted to Canadian Money Forum and like how civil everyone is there. I also like how organized everyone's thread titles are (that is, name of company and stock ticker symbol in parenthesis). I've never been to Bogleheads (I tend not to be attracted to Jack Bogle pseudo-fanboy clubs) and FWF, but Canadian Money Forum, despite the ads (they have server costs after all) does run a respectable "ship."

RedFlagDeals/PersonalFinance and reddit.com/r/PersonalFinanceCanada are total free for alls. If anything, they would actually be an argument for creating an "Investing and Portfolio Strategy" for discussions on equities, fixed income, ETFs, and portfolio strategy, instead of currently lumping them into the enormous catch-all that is "General financial discussion." Similarly, "Your stories" has also been used as a sort of off-topic grab bag for social chatter, so perhaps a "Coffeehouse" sub-forum could be helpful for that and then "Your stories" could be used for drafts of articles one proposes to write for the site (pardon the rhyming) and solicit feedback on or to link to one's newly published article.

Cheers,
Doug