General information about the forum
FXstreet.com, the leading independent portal dedicated to the Foreign Exchange (Forex) market. It was brought to life in January 2000 by its founder, Francesc Riverola, an economist from Barcelona (Catalunya), who moulded his original "home business" into a solid international company. Together with his partners, Míriam Pinatell and Sergi Fernández, their project has grown to become the trusted source of Forex for millions of users throughout the world.
The website contains real-time quotes, news, interactive chats with experts from all over the world, Fundamental and Technical analysis and a forum which participates in our rating.
The forum is powered by vBulletin Version 3.6.2.
Posting frequency
There are 195 threads and 912 posts on the forum, which is very rational and means, that there are mostly relevant threads which are being widely discussed.
Posting frequency can be characterized as average: 3-7 new messages appear every day. Of course, at holiday time the forum becomes less active.
The most popular sections are “Trading Strategies and Methods” (28 threads and 136 posts) and “Technical Analysis” (19 threads and 225 answers).
Users
There are 7,210 registered users (members) on the forum. Out of these 7,210 745 are considered to be active.
Most users ever online was 143, Dec 13, 2006 at 06:08.
Moderation
It is impossible to tell anything about moderators, because their nicknames are not mentioned anywhere. But probably they exist, because someone is definitely moderating the forum – there is practically no spam, no useless or old threads and all threads are organised very well.
There is no premoderation on the forum.
Structure
The foum is very well-stuctured. It consists of sections and subsections.
They are: “FX Strategies and Analysis” (with Trading Strategies and Methods, Technical Analysis, Fundamental Analysis, Money Management, The Psychology of Trading), “Markets” ( with Futures and Options, Forex, CFDs, Bet On Markets), “Resources” (with FXstreet.com Live Sessions, FXstreet.com Education, Software, Books and Magazines), “FXstreet.com Community” (with Request Your Forum, Trader Journals, FXstreet.com en Español, FXstreet.com in Chinese, LEFT Brain Trading, FXstreet.com Café) and “FXstreet.com Website” (with FXstreet.com Announcements and Site Feedback).
Advantages
- The structure of the forum is perfect.
- The forum is reasonably active.
- Moderation is rather good.
