2007 Jan 21 - Sun

Trading Site of the Day -- Elite Trader: Opinions, Facts and Heresy

Elite Trader is predominately a forum based site. It caters to traders of all types, where type may be newbie/experienced, forex/equity/commodity, day-trader/swing-trader, to name but a few combinations.

The forums include coverage for a variety of topics. Here are but a few: Trading, Stocks, Wall Street News, Economics, Trading Journals, Psychology, Order Execution, Automated Trading, Technical Analysis, Retail Firms, Prop Firms, Software, Educational Resources, Futures (many categories here), Currency, Options, and Politics.

In addition to the forums, the following are rated, reviewed and commented upon, pretty much on a daily basis: books, brokers, and software.

There is also an ability to chat in realtime. There are quite a number of interesting Chat Room Transcripts.

Forum search is comprehensive but could use some improvement from a user-usability perspective. Even so, I do find myself getting side tracked on to other threads, finding useful pieces of information in most every forum I visit.

In a nutshell, even though there are the usual cranks and heretics, the site is rich in content. I do visit the site regularily for the knowledge as well as the laughs. And talking about humour, hidden away in there somewhere is a decent compendium of trading and related and not so related jokes.