yeah, quite a number of comments. No problem, shoot as many as you want.

Best Wishes,

Very nice review.

I like your constructive and honest response. It is a commendable effort on your part (on behalf of moneyvidya.com) that you looked at this review from a constructive frame of mind. It made my effort worthwhile.

Regarding item 3, (i.e Rs. 1 vs. Rs. 5) – I went back to read what I had written. Yes I was wrong in a sense that I made communication mistake. I agree with your comments. I was attempting to bring out the significance of “total amount for trade i.e. share value x no. of shares” rather than just the pick alone. I used a wrong example and perhaps a wrong sentence formulation. I made a mistake.

I will drop you an email at your email address.

Best Regards,

I enjoyed reading your review of MoneyVidya.com. It’s fair, and gave us some solid feedback. What’s your number / email id? Drop me a note on gautam.kshatriya@moneyvidya.com if you’re okay with connecting.

I’d just like to comment on some of your points:

1) “Quality of contribution being a question mark.” I completely agree that we could do far better in terms of quality of content. Our experience has been that the issue of content quality on a user generated site is however a chicken / egg sort of situation. high quality users (such as finance professionals) do not necessarily want to contribute to a site where they don’t see traffic. The hope is that over time, as users of all sorts of quality join the site, the contributions of high quality users float to the top and are most visible. this will take time.

2) Our ranking mechanism is continuously evolving. There is certainly scope to improve this. With our current limited resources, however it will take time. We hope you stay patient. Also note that the ranking system has been built with a long term, higher activity view in mind. Right now, the output is not perfect. They are, however, better than in the past. The output of the ranking will continue to improve as activity increases on the site.

3)I completely disagree with your point about a Re. 1 gain on a Rs. 5 stock vs. a Rs. 25 gain on a Rs. 500 stock. The former is definitely a better outcome, as I could have earned Rs. 100 on an investment of Rs. 500 in the former, rather than Rs. 25 on the latter. Note also that while somebody could have made that 25% gain in the first example, they could have very easily made a 25% loss as well. Moreover, a lower priced stock doesn’t necessarily mean a speculative stock. We’re also limited to NSE stocks only, where the number of penny stocks are highly limited.

4) Incentivisation: Yes, agree. Additional ratings (e.g. contribution) definitely on the cards. Exploring other ideas as well. Would like to get your views on this.

5) Minimimum criteria: Good point, will look into this.

6)Dividends – working on it (give us time).

7) Additional data – costs $$$, working on it, will take time..