Thanks for the feedback! We fixed the issue. You can now use hyphen or space in your name. Please try it again at www.nvest.me. If there's any other issue, please let me know! Thanks.

We do take dividends and splits into account. Currently, our approach is compounded ROI.

Interesting site!

We are currently focused on providing information and stock market. Etoro is mostly working on Foreign Exchange.

We will be pushing more comprehensive features for the ranking evaluation soon!

I mean there are many mathematical model to calculate risk. But, how do you objectively evaluate risk? We can definitely include multiple different models on the site.

> how do you objectively evaluate risk?

You should know this, you are advertising a trading performance evaluation site.

Thanks for the feedback!

There are actually many ways! If you are really that interested, ping me at harry@nvest.me!

I'm curious too. Will send you an email.

We do plan to implement features, such as validating phone numbers, to prevent that.

Phone numbers are a dime a dozen these days..you need more like SSN validation.

Is there any way to delete recommendations? E.g. delete your account?

If so, you may end up with people deleting their account if they have bad predictions (the usual survival bias of mutual fund investments).

A solution would be to never delete postings, just maybe changing the username into [deleted123] or so.

Phone numbers cost $1 to bypass this.

Notice that he wrote "features". That's plural, meaning more than one. And then notice that he wrote "such as validating phone numbers". The "such as" part indicates that phone number validation is just one example among several. I'm sure he's quite well aware that phone numbers alone are insufficient. That's why they would likely be combined with other approaches.

I'm uncertain why pointing out the mentioned feature is easily bypassed is irrelevant?

It isn't like I was attacking him on it, just pointing out that feature is effectively ineffective except against truly mass bot type stuff.

Currently, they have to sign up before they can get tracked. There are challenges to track non-structured recommendations from other platforms. If you have suggestions, we would love to hear about them!

We have a system in place for quantifying quotes at http://backrecord.com . On the system that is live, all data has been entered by hand. The task is difficult enough that I've found even educated people who know about finance screw up the data entry more than I would like. So we have a sophisticated verification system in place to try and deal with that. We have also experimented with NLP algorithms with some success. If the data extraction is tailored to a particular source, it is quite doable in some cases.

Maybe import all of the posts, tickers and dates, and then get the user to manually go through and tag each one as buy/sell/hold, and enter the target price.

It's not perfect, but it might reduce the friction as you solve the chicken and egg problem.