Chart Forum Rules
The forum rules are listed in order of importance. Your co-operation in maintaining a friendly and helpful atmosphere will be appreciated.
Treat other members, communities and the forum with respect at all times.
We will not tolerate derogatory or disrespectful comments regarding race, religion, gender or sexuality; nor flames, insults, sarcasm or personal attacks on other members.
Show courtesy and tolerance
You are welcome to disagree with opinions, ideas, and facts, but please do not take conflicting views as personal criticism -- it would be a boring world if we all shared the same opinions. Under no circumstances will you be allowed to attack, harass or pester other members.
Stay on topic
Trading and technical analysis are serious subjects. Please keep your posts relevant to the topic and confine any banter to the Back Page.
No ramping
Ramping or stock tipping (without analysis) will not be accepted. Posts, outside of the General section, should be limited to technical analysis, fundamental analysis or trading systems.
Do not promote or advertise other software, websites, books or training courses
The Forum is provided as a free service by Incredible Charts. Please respect that and do not promote or advertise other software, websites, books or training courses. We have no objection to members posting useful links, but we object to members continuously or repeatedly promoting specific software, websites, books or training courses.
Disclose commercial interests
Members who have a direct or indirect interest (whether as employee, agent, shareholder or partner) in any commercial venture connected with shares,
securities, currencies or derivatives are required to disclose such interests in their Forum Profile. They are not, however, allowed to promote or advertise their interest in any posts on the Forum.
Failure to disclose any such interest will be viewed as a deliberate attempt to mislead Forum members and will be reported to the appropriate authorities.
A privately-owned company, trust or super fund that solely invests or trades in stocks/securities for a members own benefit is not a "commercial venture" and need not be disclosed.
Stick to the format when discussing stocks
Ground rules when discussing stocks or securities:
- Limit your submissions to one or two stocks and don't post your whole watchlist;
- Identify the time frame as:
(a) short (10 days or less),
(b) medium term (2 weeks to 3 months), or
(c) long (more than 3 months); - Identify bullish/ bearish stock signals;
- Avoid making recommendations like "buy this stock" or statements like "this is bound to go up 50% in the next 10 days".
Do not use
this forum for investment advice
None of the members of this Forum (as far as we know) are licensed financial advisors. Please do not interpret any of the content as a securities recommendation nor use this forum as a substitute for investment advice from a qualified financial advisor. We remind visitors of their undertaking regarding General Advice under the
Terms of Use of this site.
[Apologies for the legality but I would hate to see someone invest their life savings in ENE - only to find out later that it was Shonky's compass bearing]
Verify information before acting upon it
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Ask the moderator to deal with objectionable posts
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Not our opinions
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Review by your peers
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Thank you.
Colin Twiggs
