First thoughts were, why should I submit these ideas or stocks. Why should I really trust people's advice based on karma? I would rather see people ranked by the accuracy of their predictions.<p>Perhaps when you submit a stock or vote on one during the week it could record the current price and after a few days your karma points are based on the new price of the stock.<p>I also think you should have links to the stock price. I'm too lazy to type in all the ticker names into google.
Also, how would you detect fakes! I can say I bought 1000 $AAPL at 80 last year and sold them for 270 this year to get some karma.<p>Look at <a href="http://profit.ly" rel="nofollow">http://profit.ly</a> for a twitter like take on stocks
I currently use the Motley Fool CAPS site[1]. What about your service is going to be better than CAPS?<p>[1] <a href="http://caps.fool.com" rel="nofollow">http://caps.fool.com</a>
I'm not your target audience at all but here's the first thing I noticed:<p>The big blank blue space up top (plus the logo) take up roughly 20% of the screen real estate. The nav then takes up another 5%.<p>1/4 of the screen wasted and now I'm finally at the content!
An ok concept, but poorly executed, in my opinion.<p>What is the user voting for? The stock itself? Or the reasoning behind the submission? What will you do about multiple submissions on the same stock, say AAPL, that could flood the frontpage?
It would be useful if you find a way to link a stock with a news' submission. You know "buy the rumor, sell the news".<p>So for me the useful information is the news or the rumor and not any user's bet.
Instead of showing the vote buttons but having them do nothing when the user is not logged in, use a tooltip to tell them that they can vote, comment, etc if they create an account and login.