• Armchair
Millionaire Chat
Quicken, a maker of personal finance software, is behind this site that offers
financial advice. This is the discussion forum where there's at least one
moderated discussion every weekday.
• BullBoards: StockHouse
These message boards are full of interesting advice and commentary about all
things investment-related.
• Business and Investing
Chat: Chat World
This room is designed to be an open forum for trading and conjecture. This chat
will let you check out tips with other users to filter the facts from stories
and speculation.
• Commodity Hearsay
This site harbors over 40 chat rooms for commodities traders. Go to a general
commodities forum or any of several specific commodities, including grain,
cotton and stock.
• Critical Mass Discussion
Forums, The
You can chat about penny and small cap stocks, telecom stocks, drug stocks, big
cap tech stocks and Internet stocks, check out brokers, read technical analyses,
discuss day trades and more at this bulletin board site.
• Daytraders.org
Get info on the IRC channel designed for U.S. Stock Market traders, who gather
to discuss stocks every trading day; here find bios of regulars and info on
getting connected.
• Dow Jones
The forums at this site cover financial services, personal computing,
accounting, and more than 25 different industry sectors.
• DRIP Central
Message Boards
This message board is for information and discussion about dividend reinvestment
plans. If you have a question about DRIPs, here's the place to ask it: answers
seem to take about a day, and are friendly and well-informed.
• Interactive: Avid Trading
Co.
The chat site for this financial outfit offers three rooms for investing
discussion. Avid Traders Chat is a popular room to discuss general investing.
InSight inFormation and By the Horns are members-only rooms for stock-pickers
and short-sellers.
• Investment Club Central
Describing itself as an invest-o-rama, this online service makes the most of the
Internet, bringing you articles, research, software and everything else designed
to enhance your portfolio. Direct questions to a financial pro and find chat
opportunities.
• Market Central Chat
Rooms
In environments both bullish and bearish, regulars will come here in droves to
speculate with each other about market trends. Give and receive stock tips, ask
about a esoteric form of investing or just make friends.
• Real Estate
Chat Room
The Insider's Club is actually not so exclusive. Join it and chat about a wide
range of subjects regarding the field of real estate. Talk apartments,
commercial property, mortgages, trust deeds and more.
• Silicon Investor
Specializing in high-tech stocks, this site offers quotes, charts, company
profiles, SEC filings and discussion forums covering a variety of topics.
• Social Investment Forum
Here is a financial site developed with the goal of helping you make more
socially responsible invesments.
• Stock Club Chat Room
The Stock Club offers two chat rooms for its visitors. Free For All is the
general-purpose meeting room. Day Trading is for traders who generally sell
stocks the same day they buy them.
• Stock-Talk
One of the largest investment forum sites on the Internet. Over 7,800 individual
stock discussion boards. Includes hot stock and IPO categories, as well as a
downloadable quote and news ticker.
• StockTalk
If the more general Hot Stocks forum and IPO forum at this page don't have what
you need, they also have more than 7,800 discussion forums about specific
stocks.
• TalkStock
You can chat about stocks and options at this open-message forum.
• Wall Street After Hours
Chat
While many of the slick Wall Street brokers are out on the town spending their
money in dark corners of the city, the true finance fanatics are in places like
this room, where brokers, analysts and bankers wind down with more work talk.