Where have all the threads gone?

[_coda]

In the Boards summary, the CFD forum reports 127 threads with 977 views. The Forum itself however shows only 8.

I have recently been exposed to the fringes of a company that pushes a software analysis tool. Their recommended investment instrument is CFDs. Their high pressure tactics make them laughable non-starters for me. However, some of the features of CFDs looked interesting. Particularly being able to go short in times like these.

So I have been trying to learn more about CFDs. Its disappointing to find an almost empty CFD forum and puzzling to find the above discrepancy. Possibly a limitation of the board software?

I have found several articles on the subject and looked at what CMC and the other brokers that offer CFDs have to say. I still have some issues with the whole concept, particularly with what I see as a possible conflict of interest on the side of the broker.

I have searched through the forums and read what there is to find on CFDs. Pity that it's not consolidated here.

As a neophyte to trading I find the information in the posts of enormous value and wouldn't dare ask a question here before seeing what has already been said. kudo's to you all for a very high quality site.

 

[Lord Flasheart]

Hi coda and welcome. I used to trade CFDs with CMC but switched to spread/binaries as the spread price was the same as the cfd but without tax implications.

 

[rossored]

In the Boards summary, the CFD forum reports 127 threads with 977 views. The Forum itself however shows only 8.

Er, are you sure about that? Attached is a screenshot I've just taken from the CFD forum - showing 6 pages of threads.

If you can really only see 8 then please post a screenshot and I'll get it looked at.

 

[_coda]

Matt,

I've attached an image showing the CFD forum without any of the additional pages that you have in your image. Thanks for the response and I'm glad that the info is there.

I'm using firefox with NoScript but with T2W allowed to run scripts. I wonder whether some issue with ff that is causing this. (Other forums here do not have this problem.)

Julian, thanks for the welcome.

Sorry folks, looks like this post is off topic.

 

[rossored]

Can't see any reason why you shouldn't be able to see those. Have you tried with a different browser?

 

[_coda]

Matt,

Much wierdness today.

I've attached a screenshot from IE7 which also lacks the additional pages. FF and IE are the only browsers I have installed at the moment.

 

[rossored]

OK - do you mind PM'ing me your password? I'd like to log in as you temporarily and see if I can replicate at my end. Better than me resetting your password

 

[timm]

I get the same thing on IE7, Firefox and Safari. Only 3 threads showing in CFD section. It's also the same problem when logged out and viewing as a guest.

 

[_coda]

done

 

[rossored]

there you go - should be sorted for everybody now. Backend setting had been messed up, I've reverted it.

 

[_coda]

Thanks Matt, works fine now.

 

[rossored]

actually I've found a few others with the same problem - thanks for pointing it out.