Create your own mytrade page; get followers!
Your mytrade dashboard is for keeping an eye on the stocks and people that you’re following.
Your mytrade page is a platform for sharing your thoughts, ideas and content-finds with the people that want to follow you. Think of it as your home for investing.
Here’s how it works:
Choose your home! (mytrade URL): The first thing you’ll need to do is establish the address for your new home. When you first go to set up your mytrade page, we’ll ask you what you want your URL extension to be…. in other words, mytrade.com/whathere. It is strongly recommended that you use your real name so that you can establish a true identity and following on mytrade and so that your friends and family can easily remember it.
Add your picture: Click on the blank picture and go through the quick process of uploading yourself to our system. Again, real faces work best here. Mytrade is about REAL ideas from real people…dig?
Tag yourself!: Near the top of the page next to your name, you’ll see a box where you can add “tags” that help describe you and your investing style. Words like options, daytrader, dividend, rookie, etc. Be accurate here, because these words are how other mytrade users will find and hopefully follow you!
About me, on the web: These areas let you tell us more about yourself and also will help drive traffic to your existing website, blog or other social networks.
Watchlist: This is the grand-daddy of watchlists, automatically combining all of the tickers from every watchlist on your mytrade dashboard to give the world a clear view of exactly what stocks you’re looking at.
Want followers? Start Posting!
Now that your page is all set up, it’s time to start posting new content. Click the icons and you’ll get the right form. There are several different ways to post new content into the mytrade “stream”, so that all of your followers can see it:
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Note: You’ve got 140 characters to tell us exactly what you’re thinking! Perfect for quick thoughts and built to be shared via mobile down the road
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Blog it out: Full posts with links, images, text editing, etc here. Each blog post will also automatically create it’s own URL so you can easily share your post with others.
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Video: Found a leaked video on youtube of the next iPhone? Share it here and tag it AAPL so we can all enjoy!
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Image: Good for you artsy types who speak through photos….oh, and also pretty good for uploading your marked-up charts showing off your technical analysis wizardry!
- Link: If you find a great story or article, share it quickly here. Be sure to tag it so the rest of us know what stocks it is about!
IMPORT what you’re already writing!
Already blogging? Pumping out stock thoughts via Twitter?
Awesome! Just click the appropriate icon, input the info and boom…your existing feeds become part of your mytrade page automagically!
Ok…now you’ve got your page all set up and you’re pumping out content, it’s time to get some followers! Tell your friends and family to check out your page and follow you….follow others….and promote yourself on the web.
You’ll be a mytrade all-star in no time! (more on that later ;) )
