Forum Overview

ASF has been founded in 2003 and is now among the most important forex websites based in Australia. It is naturally focused on the issues interesting for the Australian forex traders and on their views of the global forex issues. The forum is also well-known in the US, India and Russia.

Structure

The Forum has a convenient drop-out ‘Forum Jump’ menu, which provides access to the following Forum sections:

-    Announcements and Site News
-    FORUMS
-    AFX Stock Chat
-    General Investment and Economics
-    Beginners’ Lounge
-    Derivatives
-    Commodities
-    Forex
-    International Markets
-    Trading/Investing Resources
-    Brokers
-    Trading Software and Data
-    Trading Strategies/Systems
-    Long Term Investment Strategies

Search option is available on the forum, though for registered users only.

User Activity

The forum is very active, fresh posts appear there on a regular basis.

Threads: 17,800
Posts: 638,500
Members: 41,100
Blogs: 91

The topics that have already gained posts of today get blue label, whereas all the others are labeled grey.

At the moment of writing this review, the following topics got today’s comments:
-    General Investment and Economics
-    Commodities
-    Derivatives
-    General Chat

The most active ASF topics are the following:

-     ASF Announcements and Site News:    120 Threads; 2,600 Posts           
-    ASF Stock Chat ( Daily discussion of ASX shares and market action): 4,000 Threads; 240,000 Posts
-    General Chat (For the discussion of all non-market related topics): 4,600 Threads; 171,500 Posts
-    General Investment and Economics: 1,800 Threads; 62,000 Posts
-    Beginner's Lounge: 2,200 Threads; 32,700 Posts
-    Chat about options, futures, warrants and CFDs: 900 Threads; 22,300 Posts
-    International Markets (For the discussion of all non-Australian markets): 600 Threads, 12,700 Posts          
 
Blogs: ASF features Blogs on the website, however, these blogs are rather a billboard where forum members post messages not necessary relevant to forex trading.


High Points

The forum provides exceptional information about forex trading in Australia and is also sufficient to get general information about forex issues. The forum is set up with a Calendar which provides actual posts as per the day/week/month/year in question. However, this option is available only for registered users.

 
Low Points

A significant part of the published information is available for registered users only.
Only registered users can post, search the forums, view attachments and access other advanced features.

The organization of content is somewhat embarrassing, a visitor encounters the same threads in different subsections of the Forum.