General information about the forum
The forum is a part of Daily FX website.
Daily FX is an informational website, fully dedicated to Forex. It features news, articles, central bank rates and lots of other useful services.
Daily FX is a FXCM’s website, that’s why nothing is mentioned about Daily Fx itself.
Posting frequency
The total number of threads on forum is 8,516, while the number of posts is 81,498, which is really enormous.
Posting frequency is average. There are about 5 new posts a day, sometimes more (except for holiday time, when posting frequency is very low on every forum).
Users
There are 13,064 registered users on the forum. Some of them are very active, some are not so active, others are spammers. Still, the number of active users is rather high, it’s about 1\4 of these 13,064 members.
And, of course, there are lots of guests on the forum.
There is nothing mentioned about the most users ever online, there is only a note about the newest member.
Moderation
It is impossible to tell anything about moderators, because their nicknames are not mentioned anywhere. But they might exist, because someone is definitely moderating the forum – there is practically no spam (and no premoderation).
Structure
The forum traditionally has sections ans subsections. The sections are: “Announcements & Community Lounges” with Official Announcements and Community Lounge, “FXCM Products and Services” with PropFX, FXCM Radio, FXCM Managed Funds and FXCM Trader for Hire Program. Next comes “DailyFX Trading Center” with General Trading Discussion, Trading Ideas, Member Trading Journals and Charting Center, “Products and Services” with it’s Forex Tax and Computer Hardware Help. There is also a section about trading journals, which is not really interesting. Becides, there is a section called “Currency Pairs”, which has common subsections, such as EUR/USD, USD/CHF and so forth. Then goes “Commodity Bloc Currency Pairs” with Commodity Bloc Currency Pairs and Archived Discussions.
Advantages
Disadvantages
- Some subsections are not necessary for a forex forum and are too specific.
