I think it would be great to hear how finding the Inderes discussion forum has affected you as an investor and what it means to you?
In my investing career, finding the forum was a turning point!
Has the forum changed your perception of investing? Have you made new investor friends here?
Do you write posts yourself or are you more in the role of a reader? Do you write more public or private messages?
Do you get new ideas or more understanding from the forum—perhaps comfort in moments of disappointment? Or is the forum an obsession for you that you can’t stay away from, even if many things and writers irritate you?
Maybe every writer’s forum experience could be respected as such? Could we even trust that everyone who still posts here feels they are on the positive side overall?
It would be great to hear about these experiences!
And by the way, I’m not starting this thread at the request of Inderes, but purely out of my own interest.
Writing has been a natural way of self-expression for me, and the forum is a suitable place to structure my thoughts into a written form.
I regularly update the two threads I’ve opened, which, as foreign small-cap stocks, do not attract wide attention. That’s only a positive thing; I certainly don’t miss the atmosphere of the old Smart Eye thread. In these couple of threads, I can play analyst and expose my own thoughts to (imaginary) public criticism. The mere thought of writing for others encourages critical thinking and helps distinguish what is essential from what is noise. Looking back, one can see with burning ears what nonsense they have written before!
It’s hard to say if it’s specifically the forum that has changed my thinking about investing. As the portfolio size and age increase, thoughts about money and wealth inevitably change. The more wealth you have, the less you think about it. Building wealth seems to be like a bird in the palm of your hand – the harder you squeeze, the more certain it is that you’ll be left with a white splatter and a couple of feathers on your skin…
There are a few “trusted regulars” on the forum whose writing I follow more closely than usual. They might provide links and well-reasoned thoughts that offer new things to reflect on and chew over. In an era where the problem is not the amount of information but the lack of time, it’s great to have competent curators picking out the pearls.
