Mighty Bargain Hunter

List of money-related forums and discussion boards

Discussion boards are a great resource and a good place to exchange ideas with like-minded people or, at least, people with interests similar to yours.  Anyway, I hope you find this list of money-related forums useful; maybe you’ll find a new favorite.  I’ll add to it as I hear of more sites.  If I missed yours, or if your favorite isn’t on the list, please comment or contact me and I’ll check it out!

1. Money Blog Network Forums — a meeting place for personal finance bloggers to congregate, share blogging tips, and answer questions about all aspects of personal finance.
2. Get Rich Slowly Forums — forums of JD Roth of GetRichSlowly.org. Forums on personal finance and personal development, and “fiscal fitness” journals.
3. Saving Advice Forums — run by veteran personal finance author Jeffrey Strain. Contains forums on frugal living, investing, personal finance, freebies, and more.
4. FatWallet Forums — a potpourri of topics, from CD rates to credit card deals, tax issues to financial urban legends. And lots and lots of deals.
5. Kiplinger Forums — contains a decent number of posts on taxes and retirement.
6. Free The Drones Forums — a good mix of finance topics, like credit and debt, retirement planning, tax planning, and careers.
7. PFTalk.com — has the standard array of personal finance topics and a big section on financial software.
8. Early Retirement Forums — for those aiming for the good life early. High-power finance topics in this one.
9. Simple Living Discussion Forums — a community that takes a stand against consumerism and more, more, more. Finance topics centering around the three Rs abound.
10. Morningstar Discussion Forums — man oh man a lot of investing talk here. Could easily get lost in these. Fidelity, stock picks, Bogleheads, Buffett investing, and lots more.
11. Talk About Investments — another big investment forum to wade through. Some non-American investing forums as well.
12. Go Talk Money Forums — a cozy forum with state-by-state local bank deals.
13. CreditorWeb Forums — centered around credit cards, resolving issues, education, etc.
14. The Finance Forums — a good mix of financial topics at this one.
15. Financial Services Forums — discussion of news articles about finance and business.
16. Financial Webring Forum — Canadian forum with general finance, investing for beginners, stock picking, ETFs, and advice and consent discussions.
17. Bogleheads Investment Forum — the moderated Vanguard Diehards investment forum.
18. Ask the Experts Message Boards — engage the MSN Money columnists here.
19. Elite Trader Forums — huge trading forum covering lots of topics for active traders.
20. CreditBoards — another biggie with 176k+ topics in the credit forums.
21. MoneyMakerGroup Forum — the largest subforum is the HYIP area but lots of other investing and business discussions.
22. MoneySavingExpert Forum — a UK board, and the biggest finance board according to Big-Boards.com.
23. The Frugal Shopper Community Forum — one of the first message boards I found when I was starting up the site. (SavingAdvice.com was the other one.)
24. Money Forum at the NURV Forum Network — a good mix of investment, online business, entrepreneurship, and day-to-day money discussion. Also has a totally separate auction forum for online sellers.
25. Online Traders’ Forum — discusses investing tips, investing eduction, investing news, and the shows “Mad Money with Jim Cramer” and “Fast Money.” Also has a section for hosting trading competitions.
26. Money Forums — lots of subforums. A little sparse in places perhaps, but has some thoughtful threads.
27. Gold and Silver Forum at GoldIsMoney — precious metals, numismatics, energy, and related highly-charged topics.
28. Money Forums UK — lots and lots of subforums in many categories of finance.