Written by admin on January 23rd, 2010
what return can I expect?
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January 23rd, 2010 at 9:28 pm
They claim that they are very good at finding small cap companies that yield huge returns. To be honest though, I truly believe that you can do better finding a few diverse group of companies based on products you know well (like apple, caterpillar, etc) and investing in those.
granted, I think that the Motley Fool stock advisor may have a great history the past few years, but it’s also been pretty easy to pick winners in this last half-decade (at least until the whole credit/mortgage crisis) Overall, I think that if you do your own research and study the financials of the companies you find, then you’ll have a better understanding of when to buy and when to sell
January 26th, 2010 at 1:16 am
No. Just watch Jim Cramer on Mad Money. You will do fine.
January 28th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
I like Waleed’s answer. Also, I had signed up for one of the MF letters and I started getting TONS of financial offers and junk mail. I don’t remember the exact return, but the junk mail was enough to make me drop them.
I am curious to see how their news letters do in a bear market like this.
Also, the best advice is to listen to what the pros say, but then check on the stocks yourself instead of blindly following their advice. It is not that difficult to make a company sound good by just looking at some of their numbers and not all. Plus, good companies can get their stock bashed in a Bear market. This goes double for the small-cap ones that MF usually talks about.
As for Cramer, he has admitted to deliberately manipulating the markets, so I don’t trust his picks. He is the type of guy that would recommend a stock just so the price goes up and he could exit a loser at a better price point. However, he does say some sensible things sometimes.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Take a look at – there are many portfolios you can follow there, most of free and you can check the performance of each portfolio.