TradFi Guidelines Update - Member and Authors Access Update

Hello to my fellow Hivians and members of the TradFi community,

I apologize in advanced if this post comes off a bit pretentious. I am trying to run this community like a "tight ship" and want it to be an exceptional community to read posts and comment in. I am trying to stop spam, highly repetitive content, and AI content.

So the TradFi community has grown faster than I expected. There are some things I want to touch on first and then we can get into the weeds on what kind of content "should" be posted.

First, TradFi Community is not meant to be a copy of how other communities typically work on HIVE. I want to do something different.

Things that are different with TradFi vs other communities:

1. This is not an open community. I will pick who can be a member and who can be an author. I will remove people from time to time as well.
2. This is not meant to be a community where people make blog posts daily (with some exceptions).
3. We have 2 types of members. (1) Authors (Blog Content Creators) and (2) Commentors (Comment Content Creators)
4. Authors are encouraged to engage with "good" comments.

Before we get into guidelines, let's try to get a better idea of what "Traditional Finance" means.

Definition of Traditional Finance (using Google's AI):
"Traditional finance (TradFi) is the established, centralized financial system using institutions like banks, stock exchanges, and insurers, operating under government regulations to manage money, loans, investments, and payments, relying on intermediaries to facilitate transactions. It's the familiar system where you trust central authorities and third parties to handle your assets, unlike decentralized finance (DeFi) which uses code and blockchain without central control."

Source Google AI

Below is my attempt at "guidelines." The guidelines of the TradFi community will change overtime.

Topics that are 100% ok to cover:

1. *Stocks (I will provide a list of stocks at the bottom of this post that are good examples).
2. Bonds (Corporate Debt, government bonds, etc)
3. Corporate finance concepts (For ideas on this, I recommend reading about Aswath Damodaran who is about as famous as a finance professor can get 😅)
4. Textbook style Economic posts (@angeluxx's TradFi posts are fantastic examples of this)

Topics that are "not ok" to cover:

1. Personal finance
2. Cryptocurrency
3. Precious metals
4. Technical analysis
5. Options or futures trading

Topics that are sometimes "ok" to cover (These are grey areas):

1. The commodities Silver, gold, bitcoin (when something news worthy happened).
2. Current Economic events
3. Current financial news

1. Whitelisted Authors/ Blog Posters (Not in any particular order):
• borsengelaber
• wiseagent
• cajiro
• gungunkrishu
• rimurutempest
• blkchn
• dd1100
• yusmelys
• angeluxx
• solominer

(If you are not white listed as an author and your post a blog post to TradFi, I will handle this on a case by case basis. Ideally, you will ask me before you start posting in here).

2. Whitelisted Comment Content Creator - If you are a member of the community you are considered a Comment Content Creator in the community.

What is a "Comment Content Creator"?
So "Comment Content Creators" are important to any community imo. They provide good questions or perspectives with comments. They say things that the author of the post can engage with. Engagement is very important to me. I care more about the quality of engagement.

Update to my curation practices within TradFi
I am going to start curating this community "better." I will curate comments more based on the quality of the comment going forward.

Things I will look at when curating:
• Are you a "good" stakeholder? Typically I reference KE ratio for this. I like to curate people under 2 KE and I really like to curate people under 1 KE.
• Is your post or comment "interesting?" (Does your content make other users think?)
• Do you engage with people in the comments?

*A "good" list of stocks that can be covered are on the CBOE website. Please scroll down to "Available Weeklys - Equity"
https://www.cboe.com/available_weeklys/

This is a list of stocks that have weekly options in US stock market. I reference this list for my own research and investing. I DO NOT trade options like I trade investments. Options are hedging tools. Options are also a way to easily lose a lot of money so I do not recommend trading options. The number 1 rule to options and futures is do not trade options or futures. I like this list of stocks because they are "popular" stocks primarily based on their trading activity.

Also, as I said above, if you are generally interested in Traditional Finance, I recommend reading about Aswath Damodaran. He provides a lot of his research and education materials for free. Please Note - To the people who are big into conspiracy theories... no... I am not Damodaran 🤣

I sometimes get feedback that I am not super clear on what I want in my posts. There is a life hack to this.... You can ask me me things in the comments 😉

Cheers,

Hurt