New Investment Strategy (mutual funds, commission, invest, stocks)

[Harleyman123]

Hey Jedi Investors,

Do any of you guys utilize Foliot or Motif investing? Its the first i hear of it but apparently your able to customize your own stock portfolio and only pay one execution price. This is similar to mutual funds and ETFs but you can build your own with the stocks you like. Anyone use this before or can give me their opinion of it?

thanks,
Harleyman

[marshallcrawford]

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[bmw335xi]

Originally Posted by Harleyman123

Hey Jedi Investors,

Do any of you guys utilize Foliot or Motif investing? Its the first i hear of it but apparently your able to customize your own stock portfolio and only pay one execution price. This is similar to mutual funds and ETFs but you can build your own with the stocks you like. Anyone use this before or can give me their opinion of it?

thanks,
Harleyman

From my understanding what Motif allows you to do is buy other peoples' "Motifs" or create your own "Motifs." Motifs are bundles of individual stocks (mini-portfolios) that are based on an idea such as "Chinese Solar." Instead of paying commission to buy 5 stocks, you pay one once ($9.95) to buy your Motif. If you want to make changes to an individual stock in your Motif, the commission rate is $4.95, which is reasonable.

They are trying to make it a social exchange for members. What I find interesting about the company is that they are trying to get approval from the government, so members can be paid whenever another member chooses to invest in their Motif. They also said, they would like to get to the point to reward top performers by allowing them to promote their Motif(s) and get paid whenever someone chooses them. In addition, they are working on allowing members to copy the moves of their favorite member(s). Let's say your favorite member is Jack123 and you want to buy when he buys, or sell when he sells, essentially you could choose to copy his movements and it would all be done automatically for you.

This isn't for me, but it does sound interesting if all their plans actually happen.

[OutPerform]

This is an interesting concept. I went to the Motif website and you can open an account with as little as $250. I may experiment with small amount.

[Harleyman123]

Originally Posted by OutPerform

This is an interesting concept. I went to the Motif website and you can open an account with as little as $250. I may experiment with small amount.

I will do the same, let me know when your vested and what your screen name is so we can group up.