Show HN: An investment forum where everyone manages a $1M imaginary portfolio

Hi there! Made LongTermBoard.com as a Jr. FE engineer fresh from leaving the investment field but still in love with it.

Back then, I'd read articles on investment forums and wanted a quick way to determine if I should spend time reading the analysis. I wanted a quick way to determine if the author is a good investor.

LongTermBoard solves this by making it easy to view the competency of the author by seeing his investment performance of his profile. It's long-only for now, as the goal is to look for great long-term businesses to invest in.

It ain't perfect as its a controlled investment environment, but my hope is that over the longer term, the portfolio performance should be a good proxy.

It's super rough now, so hope it doesn't break.

Show HN: An investment forum where everyone manages a $1M imaginary portfolio
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Actually, I'm not selling anything. The authors themselves get to sell subscriptions to their readers when they gain reputation. Yea, it's fictional, but hopefully it will be a better proxy to their value as compared to outright selling a newsletter subscription.

Plus, authors can only start selling subs after 6 months, and no one would subscribe if their ideas are bad. I'm trying to build a skin-in-the-game kinda system as much as I can with the constraints that I have.

Might need to work on my copy since you didn't get it. :(

oh hey this is cool, I'd like to start investing some time so this seems fun to play around with first

Sounds like fun!

Never got a verification email. So I don't know what it offers, but I'd say it should allow shorting, if it doesn't already.