Introducing Portfolio Yoga Elite Discussion Forum

In February 2004, I started a Yahoo based group for discussions around Technical Analysis. Over time, this became a group that was thousands of members strong with hundreds of messages exchanged by members whose contribution has remained invaluable. Personally, I learnt a lot and made a lot of new friends. 

Today, when I say messages, the first thought that comes to mind is Twitter sized messages, but the messages we exchanged on the group were email based and many times consisted of deep writing – God, I miss those days.

Thanks to a commercial event that literally split the group down (the group was a non profit initiative that was supported only by members’ passion to learn and exchange ideas), the group met its death a few years back.

I have had many requests to either re-start the group or start a new one. But over time, I am beginning to feel that most people these days don’t have the interest of reading let alone reading through deep discussion emails especially when we have been addicted to Twitter.

Some time back, I opened my Twitter DM to Public to try and provide views to anyone who had queries when it came to finance. With the turmoil we are seeing in markets, I have got more messages than what I expected. 

On Twitter, it’s easy to just shoot and forget on what portfolio to build. But without some sort of support, this can be implemented only by those who are knowledgeable and understand the nuances of such investment

One of the things I learnt at Capitalmind where I worked for nearly 3 years was that there is a very high requirement for people to have a platform to interact. While Twitter provides for such, if you are not followed by others, you don’t get answers to your questions either and its not easy to build a network either. On the other hand, there are good people with low following which means that their views and opinions don’t get the publicity they need to get.

The future path of Portfolio Yoga I envisioned to be an advisory with active discussion forum that can provide investors ability to understand finance better. Thanks to Corona, that has got delayed. But markets being what they are, there is a huge vacuum that requires to be filled.

I have created a Slack Discussion Forum which in future will be open to only paid members, but given the uncertainty in the markets and the delay in starting off my own venture, I am now opening it to the public at large. 

Do note that the whole forum being public, I have no way to monitor all messages or approve the same. Please do follow etiquette you would normally follow with your friends and family. Members violating the same including abuse would be removed. No discussion on Politics or Religion either. 

Please do note that this is not a Financial Advice forum nor is Portfolio Yoga registered as one. This is a forum designed to help answer your questions. Hope you see you there. 

If you have any queries, ping me on Twitter @prashanth_krish. My DM’s continue to be open.