For those just started out investing, the global investing community offering useful information and learning points is much bigger than you would think. Other than scouring through third-party websites such as popular investment blogs, finance websites or just grabbing research reports from your retail broker to search for investment ideas, there are several investment forums/message boards one can utilize to augment one’s investment knowledge.

Michael Burry, founder of ex hedge fund Scion Capital (the guy that went to work in shorts and slippers in “The Big Short”) which ran between 2000 until 2008, had frequently wrote on message boards such as Silicon Investors on stock investments. Joel Greenblatt, one of the more renown value investors we know today and author of  “The Little Book that Beats the Market” which introduced the “magic formula investing” co-founded a website called the Value Investors Club (VIC) which stores a library of stock ideas. He ...