The InvestAnswers community is built by the community for the community. The channel started with just me, and now we are a team of 12: writers, developers, graphic folks, customer support, accountants, etc. We recruit from the community.
A few new members requested a walk-through of the IA community, and we have some old members who may not be aware of everything available to them, so we decided to do a tour.
In the first 20 weeks since inception, our Patreon community completely sold out. At the time, per Patreon statistics, it was the largest financial Patreon community!
At the beginning of 2023, we had 5% attrition due to the bear market. It’s opened up seats for new members to join.
My goal for this recap is to show you how vibrant and the amount of knowledge sharing that is going on in the community. Since our channel is all about data, let’s start with that.
Over the last two years, the community has produced more than 1.047 posts per minute, to which I personally contribute a large chunk.
Now let’s drill down into all the moving parts…
Most people only know me from InvestAnswers YouTube Channel, where I consistently produce a video per day. But there are so many other pieces to the community outside of Youtube.
There’s Patreon, where you obtain access to the community. Patreon is not about supporting the YouTube channel. It is about supporting you and the community as a whole.
We have 5 membership tiers on Patreon with many benefits available for each level.
Let’s take a look at some of the knowledge-sharing happening inside...
I post a plethora of content: from crypto to stocks, to real estate, to news impacting the financial world, and more. As a result, different content will be found relevant depending on your interests. I engage with members on posted content on a daily basis.
Discord is available for the top two tiers of Patreons for the IA Community, Capitalist, and Executive.
In addition, there’s also the InvestAnswers Community Forum platform, aka Discourse. It’s available for the top 3 Patreon membership tiers: Investor, Capitalist, and Executive. This is where you can:
Submit a question to the Weekly Q&A series that airs on YouTube each Sunday
Participate in the I GOT CHALLENGED video series that airs on YouTube
Interact with the community
Get access to training material for our trading indicators and models
What is the difference between Discord & Discourse?
Discord is for fast-paced discussion between a medium sized group of people.
Discourse is far better for slow-paced, in-depth discussions or long-form topics.
Different folks prefer one over the other. I am active on both platforms to best support the community.
We’ve created numerous models in Google spreadsheets that are available to the community depending on your membership level.
Newly released Digital Asset Portfolio Tracker helps you manage your crypto portfolio, buys, sells, airdrops, staking rewards, and lost coins. It’s available on the Investor tier or higher.
Support for Digital Asset Portfolio is available on Discourse. When we build a model, we listen to the community’s feedback, resolve any issues and implement new features.
The Executive tier is our top Patreon membership tier and includes IADSS; decision support system giving guidance on when to get in and out of the market based on my 30 years of trading and three key drivers: Confluence, Trend, and Mean Reversion Model. All models can be back-tested instantly across all your settings on TradingView. When all three are aligned - bing!
And there’s more…
Our website, investanswers.io launched last month; this is where you can find tools for beginners and pros:
Arb Cloud helps you trade between BTC and BTC proxies
DCA on Steroids (DCAs) helps you optimize your DCA strategy
Bitcoin Top & Bottom indicator helps you identify the top/bottom of BTC
Macro Model is for investors who are seeking to determine how various types of assets perform against certain commodities or macro situations in the market
LAYER OUT MODEL coming over the next week or so! This will help you optimize levels at which to take profits.
Members have consistently asked if we can create a written form of the YouTube content we distribute. Hence, we sourced a writer from the community and the IA Newsletter was born. If you’re reading this in your inbox, you’re already signed up! There’s a free version and a paid version. We try to cover expenses with this publication, so the paid version is only $1/mo.
The IA community is getting bigger, stronger, and better than ever. As a result, we have an ambitious roadmap of products and offerings coming to market, including the Layer Out Model to optimize how to take profits.
I’m also on Twitter. Beware of scammers there (and everywhere). Shout out to the community members that help keep the channel scammer free.
Summary
Community First
Tools for every user - DCAS, TABI, IADSS, MACRO, ARB, and
Layer Out is coming soon!Discord
Discourse
Models
We may not always agree or have the same perspective on things, but at the end of the day, we all want what is best for each other; it’s one of the many reasons I love this community. See you inside!