I've got an idea for a series that all of the (few?) regulars here can take part in. "All about ___"

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Wherein the various regulars in here start threads about subjects they know about, answer question posed in the thread and expand all of our knowledge.

Of course, this may be entirely redundant!! LOL. I suppose it's what we are meant to be doing anyway, I'm just thinking more of a structure where if you wanted to know details about a specific security type, how it works, reference one you're looking at, etc. there would be a thread about it that you could enter and read and ask questions in.

Ideas: (And each of these would be an individual thread)

Mutual Funds
Stocks
Bonds
Exchange Traded Funds
Closed End Funds
Master Limited Partnerships
Preferred shares
Options
IRA's
Roth IRA's (and the specific differences)
401(k)'s
403(b)'s
457 Plans
Plain vanilla investment accounts
Margin accounts
Futures
Commodities
Estate Planning strategies
Wills and Trusts
(Edited to add the following which I shouldn't have forgotten in the first place!)
Portfolio structure and management
Portfolio Diversification
Portfolio balancing and rebalancing
Risk Mitigation
Risk Management
others


I know we have touched on many of these subjects over the years, but I was thinking more on the lines of, if you have particular knowledge or expertise on a subject like that or any others that fall under the heading of this group, please expand on it. Share what you know in detail.

If you are a tax expert or CPA or preparer for example, start a thread about what you do and help us understand better what you do, how you do it and how we can make our lives easier and by turn, yours.

Stuff like that.

I'll put together a starter about Mutual Funds in the coming days. I'm pretty well versed and I have written about them in the past. I'll get into what to look for, how to understand a Morningstar report, the differences between the various types of funds, etc.

We don't get a whole lot of traffic in here, but if we could build a real...sort of library of accurate, unbiased and honest information, it can only help.

Good Idea?

Or should I just go to bed early?!