I recently made 432 online stock purchases and plan to do more after the first of the year. There is no forum to address these issues of stock trading but you would always be welcome to stop by my thread. Some members actually resent the topic of individual stock purchases but they are mostly lower echelon and inexperienced in the category.
Now, Birch...I'm for sure in the lower echelon and inexperienced group you so "lovingly" refer to, and I never begrudge you trading your little heart out in individual stocks. There is no resentment here. However, when I, and the other 90+% inexperienced, TSP, poor, government workers, come to Tom's/our's site, aptly named "TSP"...that's "TSP" Talk, and we go to a thread about a certain fund in the TSP funds and we see a lot of info (mostly appears to be bragging?) about other stocks, trades, how much money someone has made, and things that we don't know about, or plan to, invest in....well, it just seems a little out of place. However, the idea of posting such in "your own" thread, or even a thread set up for those who wish to discuss such, is a marvelous idea. And this thread, as long as Poolman approves, is a fine place for such. Otherwise, a lot of these type posts "clutter and cloud" the brain of us poor inexperienced folks who are just trying to learn, and decide, how to handle our meager TSP fund so that we can have a simple, plain ole retirement. So, don't think that you are not respected for your great input in the arena you talk about...just would be better talked about in a thread about that area, in order to prevent some of us the confusion of it all. That's right, some of us, probably most of us, are just plain simple-minded folks....and, well, quite frankly....we like it that way.
Lobo
