In this thread, we are discussing the merits of prosper.com. Since there is a fair number of financially savvy Dopers out there, I thought I would start a little roundtable. Fair game for discussion might be:
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[li]What kinds of assets do you like to play with? Do you have an industry or specialty?[/li][li]How’s your ROI looking? How are you weathering today’s conditions?[/li][li]OMG Bear Stearnz![/li][li]eTrade? Scottrade? Sharebuilder? Your brokerage of choice.[/li][li]Where’s your high interest savings account at? Or do you prefer CDs?[/li][li]Interesting online or offline investment resources.[/li][li]Any big wins or bad beats lately?[/li][/ul]
Only one thing strikes me as being positively out of bounds: exactly how much you play with. If you bought Delta at $9 and sold at $15, please crow about it and tell us your reasoning. But nobody needs to know whether you made $200, $2000, or $200,000.
I’ll give it a little time before I weigh in with my own (sob) stories to see if there is enough interest.