General information about the forum
The forum belongs to Forex Factory website, which is is an informational website. Apart from a forum there is a Forex calendar and trading analysis.
Posting frequency
Posting Frequency is very high, there are new messages in each section.
There are at least 120 new messages every day. The most popular section is probably “Forex Discussion”, but “Trading Systems” and “Forex Articles” are also very popular with both guests and registered users.
Users
The number of registered users is either not mentioned or unavailable to guests. Still, it is easy to notice how popular the forum is after visiting the “Who's online” section. Most users ever online was 3283, 12-15-06 at 09:46.
Active and unactive users are approximately 50%\50%.
Moderation
It is impossible to tell anything about moderators, because their nicknames are not mantioned anywhere. But probably they exist, because someone is definately moderating the forum – there is practically no spam (and no premoderation).
Structure
The forum doesn't contain any subsections, only sections with topics. There sections are “Forex Discussion”, “Forex Systems”, “News Trading Room” (dedicated to news traders), “Journal Factory” (where users will find personal trade journals and blogs), “MetaTrader Forum” (dedicated to MetaTrader platform discussion), “Broker Discussion”, “Forex Beginners”, “Forex Articles”, “Forex News and Analysis” and, finally, “Member's Lounge”.
From the front page you can see the date of the last post in each section and whom it was posted by, threads and number of posts in each section. Amazingly there is no information abolut moderators.
Advantages
Disadvantages
- The structure could be better.
