User Scenarios 451
Tezcan Atik
Tezcan Atik who is a 28-year-old graduate of Boğaziçi University, majoring in history and working as a research assistant. He has recently entered the investment world in order to ensure his financial freedom and hedge against inflation. In his free time, he is interested in history and economics and his hobbies include sports and reading books. However, he has never invested in stocks and doesn’t know who to trust. Tezcan Atik has lost money several times by buying stocks based on recommendations he heard from social media and friends. Just when he was about to lose hope, and return back to interest, he heard about our app from a friend. Since our app prevents inexperienced people from posting forum posts with edited market graphs it provides a reliable environment for people who are new to investing. Tezcan Atik now discovered a platform to learn chart analysis accurately without losing money.- Read trustworthy posts about graphs
- Learn how to understand stock graphs
- Stop losing money
- Not a member
- Opens the website
- Heads to forum
- Searches for the stocks he had lost money on and filters the posts with edited graphs
- To like the posts and follow users which he likes the ideas of, he will register to the website
Temel Kazıcı
Temel Kazıcı, a 54 year old ship captain who has 30 years of experience in the field, has been interested in investing for the past two years. Since his job require him to spend long periods at sea, Temel can’t frequently adjust his portfolio. Also since he doesn’t have the necessary experience in investing to feel confident about himself he often consults his friends, asking questions like, "How many stocks should I hold? Which sectors should be bought together?” in an effort to shape his own strategy. Temel is on the lookout for an app that allows him to both manage his portfolio and gain insights from other investors' portfolios. In his search, he comes across our app and realizes it is exactly what he's been looking for a while. With the search feature provided by our app, he starts searching for the portfolios of investors who hold the stock of the firm his working. After examining several portfolios and gaining a solid understanding about how many stocks he should hold, and what are other investors buying together with his sector, he decides to sign up for the app to be able to create his own portfolio and follow others. He then creates his own portfolio based on the strategies that align with his ideas, allowing him to track and manage his investments more effectively.
- Portfolio monitoring
- New ideas about portfolio construction
- Not a member
- Opens the website
- Searches for portfolios that include a specific stock
- Decides to be a member and registers
- Follows some of the users whose portfolios he liked before
- Creates his own portfolio
Hakkı İşbilir
Hakkı İşbilir is a 40-year-old engineer working in the defense industry. He is married and has two children. He is interested in archery and camping and often goes camping on weekends with his wife. Since he uses both mathematics and analytical thinking skills frequently in his life, he invests using pair trading, a method of trading related stocks by selling one while buying the other. He is very skilled at this method and manages investments for himself, his wife, and his parents. However, ever since he was promoted, his work has started to take up more of his time. That’s why Hakkı began looking for an app with a comparative chart feature for posts. While browsing through different apps, he came across ours and realized he could search for posts with comparative charts. He then selects the stock he wants and reads the chart comparison posts about it. Impressed by the app's usability, he becomes a member and creates his own feed by following people who frequently share chart comparisons.
- Seeing comparisons about stocks
- Viewing expert's comments on finance
- Having knowledge about the analysis of stock graphs
- Not a member
- User enters the application
- Goes to the markets page to see the status and reviews of the market he/she is interested in.
- Filters to see only the posts that include graphical comparison about the market he is looking for.
- Signs up to follow the users whose posts he like
- Now he has a specialized feed that includes mostly his followed accounts