Method for implementing a virtual community of investors having investment portfolios

Abstract

A system and method for providing analytical tools for a community of investors having investment portfolios. A first tool provides an indication of a user's selection effectiveness regarding the user's choice of investments relative to those sectors in which the investment resides, and relative to a broader market. A second tool allows the user to evaluate the effectiveness of community stimuli on the user's portfolio. A third tool provides the user the capability to view relationships among a plurality of preferred analysts. With a fourth tool, a user may view a plurality of other analysts the user referred to the community.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A computer-implemented method for a virtual community, said computer-implemented method comprising:
 accepting a set of investment preferences from a plurality of community members;   receiving a first request from a first community member to view said set of investment preferences of a second community member, recording said first request, and displaying said set of investment preferences of said second community member to said first community member; and   receiving a second request from a third community member to display related other users and displaying a set of community members represented as nodes and a set of relationships between community members as connections between said nodes.