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InvestingNote is the free social network platform designed specifically for crowdsourced investment ideas, news and interaction for the holistic stock investing community. Investors can identify trends, market movements and sentiments through crowdsource analysis that can make them better at investing. With free access to a wide variety of stock data, investors can share research reports, utilize technical charts and make stock price targets that will be visible to other investors. It is built to connect investors for better investing outcomes.

It is both a web platform and app which is available on both Apple and Android playstores.

Taglines
Connecting Investors For Better Investing Outcomes.

Goals
InvestingNote aims promote investment and financial literacy to retail investors by bridging knowledge gaps between retail investors, professionals and institutions through social media and networking.

Exchanges Covered
InvestingNote provides comprehensive stock data from multiple exchanges such as SGX, ASX, NYSE, NASDAQ, BURSA, SET and IDX.

Community
It is a platform for users (which InvestingNote often calls community members) to share their views, opinions and experiences on securities and equities. Another key feature is "verified" users. Verified users include but are not limited to: trading representatives, stock brokers, analysts, stock educators and esteemed financial institutions like CIMB Securities. These verified users contribute their knowledge, skills and experience to other investors by connecting and interacting with them on a real-time basis. InvestingNote verifies these users through an internal process.

Estimations
Estimations is a feature that allows users to make a forecast on a stock, based on their own time horizon, target price and analysis. Once an estimation is made, it is visible to the public and the system tracks the estimation. Once the target price is the same as the current price of the stock in the market, it will be reflected as a hit. If it does not hit the target price within the stipulated time horizon, it will be reflected as a miss. As users are not allowed to delete the estimation once it has been made, it is a useful feature to track the accuracy of each user's analysis and forecasting skills.

Technical Analysis: Charts
Technical charts powered by TradingView are available for every stock listed on various exchanges, complete with technical indicators and drawing tools, which is free and easy to use.

The charts also contain a unique "crowdsource sentiments indicator" labelled as the "show ideas" button, which aggregate vital user-generated information such as opinions, news and estimates tagged to any stock. This information is useful to identify stock price movements and trends.

Fundamental Analysis
Users get free access to key financial ratios such as beta, P/E and P/B ratios and fundamental data. The platform allows the posting of trading/investing ideas, stock-related pictures and research reports in their original PDF format.

Watchlist and Portfolio
Users can create multiple watchlists and a virtual portfolio to track P/L and stock prices, which are tracked in real-time.

Stock Events Calendar
It has an stock events calendar (only for SGX-listed stocks), which tells users the respective Annual General Meetings (AGM), Extraordinary General Meetings (EGM) and the various corporate actions such as ex-dividend dates of listed companies.

Other Unique Features
Similar to social networks and media like Facebook and Instagram, users are able to follow other users, give likes, comments, share their posts or block them.

It uses a "cash-tag" function like StockTwits, which is also similar to the hashtag function found in social networks like Facebook and Instagram, to categorise information according to the respective stocks.

Users are ranked according to their contribution and the community's reception to it, in the form of reputation points. Reputation points earned are then redeemable for a wide variety of gifts.

To cater for beginners who are interested in investing, the platform also has a dedicated education section, known as the Invest Academy, to help them get started. Invest Academy is both an original content provider of InvestingNote and a curated section of useful articles contributed by its community.

Typical Usage
Normally, users sign up for an account for free using just their email, self-created username and password. After signing up, users begin to see the trending stocks and discussions on the platform. If they're interested in a particular stock, they can search for it and see all the data that is associated with that particular stock.

They can also search for top contributors in the community via a reputation ranking page, to find the users who are more reputable and active and follow them.

Users who adopt technical analysis will utilise the platform's technical charting software to do their own analysis.

Users are also known to ask the community questions regarding stocks or investments. They will then be given answers contributed by the community.

Users have also utilised the app while attending AGMs or EGMs, to do a live reporting to their own followers.

Power users including verified professionals, share their trading signals and forecasts for stocks on a regular basis. They are also able to use the platform to interact directly with the public and gain a strong followership.

History
InvestingNote is the brainchild of Shanison Lin, Walter Yue and SP. It was incorporated as a company under ACRA since late 2014 and currently a registered business in Singapore.

Before it had attained any funding, Walter and SP left the company to pursue other businesses, leaving Shanison as the sole owner of the company. Shanison managed to build the platform and his team over time.

It was funded initially by angel investors and it hit a milestone when Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) funded $xxxK in the company, instantly valuing it at $xx million SGD. At the beginning of 2016, active marketing was done when a marketing lead was hired. Ethan Ho is currently serving the role.

Popularity and Significance
InvestingNote's holistic community consists of retail investors, traders, stock educators, brokers, financial institutions and financial bloggers and writers. Its social networking aspect serves to appeal to the tech-savvy adults and younger millennials of retail investors.

Partners
InvestingNote's current partners and supporters are:

Financial Institutions
 * CIMB Securities


 * RHB Securities


 * PhillipCapital


 * Singapore Exchange (SGX)

Organizations
 * Singapore Press Holdings


 * ShareInvestor Pte Ltd


 * Singapore Remisiers Society


 * Singapore infocomm Technological Federation (SiTF)

Student clubs/bodies
 * National University of Singapore (NUS) Investment Society


 * Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Investment Interactive Club


 * Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) Investment Club


 * Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) Investment Club