Who on here uses or have used any of them like Barrons or Stock Advisor and are they worth subscribing too? Thanks.

I took Barrons a few years, but that was in the day when all the info I could get was on the phone or news by mail. I equate that a lot with trapping books. You can read them and get familiar with the workings of it . But knowledge and someone else's advice doesn't replace your drive and work. The thing I've always thought about people selling advice is that the Public is a market in itself and plenty of fish for the catching.

I'm not a stock person, but over the years buy and hold is professed by many. But I can't even do that right, I still have K-mart stock somewhere, lol.

I know I've not given much advice as to what you was wanting but this will get back to top and maybe some of the stock-guys will chime in.

My best advice is to find a system that will lose consistently and then have your wife do the opposite 3 fold and you will be a winner, lol.

For over 2 decades I used Morning star.com After Y-2K we used our first financial planner and worked with that firm for a decade. Today about half of our securities are held in stocks and funds we have owned for 15-30 years. The other half of our securities we have with Thrivent in the managed account sector and they manage those funds. Our management fees are higher with this system but our returns have been better for us.,

Bryce

Buy an SP 500 index fund and then forget about it.

I have some index funds already.

But I keep a Schwab account for my interest at home to work with.

Looking for a better source of information to select options for my "fun" money. Getting info from the Schwab research data not as easy.

I have been a Barron's subscriber for at least 40 years. It was tough back when everything was print only. When it arrived in the mail it was already two weeks old.
It can be a good source for ideas but nothing is a substitute for your own due diligence.

Other guys that I read when I can are ;

James Grant. Grant's Interest Rate Observer.

Mark Hulbert: Hulbert's Rating Service.................his newsletter digests and rates other newsletters

Howard Marks: Oakmark Capital. This guy IMO is the best there is at getting a good read on what is happening in the economy.

Steve Sosnick: Chief Strategist at Interactive Brokers........contributes to a daily aggregation of articles and opinions on markets and the economy. He is a must read daily for me.

You can find his stuff at Trader's Insight......and sign up for free access emailed to you daily........I am an Interactive customer, but I don't think you have to be to sign up . Give it a shot


If you are looking for a service that tells you what and when to buy..........I can't recommend any

Thanks guys. I will check some of those out.

Just follow what Nancy Pelosi and other Congressmen are buying; you can't go wrong. Some guy has developed an App for following their stock purchases.
Of course they get the inside scoop. How else do they make tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars from a job that doesn't pay over $175,000 a year?

Maybe Hillary could give a recommendation on some sure fire cattle trades !

Motley Fool can be useful. It is a love/hate relationship for me. Continuous up-sell attempts for other products is a real turnoff for me and they really aren't for traders but investors. Our relationship goes back decades.

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I have been going through similar thoughts. Basically have some fun money I don't care to loose to play with.

Yet then I read study adapter study that shows dollar cost averaging and index funds always come out ahead over time. Then I question if I should bother and start leaning to sector based etfs to kind of split the difference.

Basically financial advisors from Fidelity and Edward Joan's both basically advised index funds or etf's. Stating they tend to win long term. At that point I feel like there's is no point in paying them that's not bringing anything to the table worth paying for and its easy to do self directed.

Yet I still seem to want to buy some individual stocks. Sometimes it doesn't have to make since and if I play with less than 10% and kee the rest in etfs and index funds I figured I will be OK.

But paying for advice or managed funds don't historically best simple index funds and dollar cost averaging over time. Buti don't know much and have been doing lots of reading and studying charts. It's fun to learn things and even more when a better future is likely the result. White gave me some good reading to look up not long ago.

If there was a person to tell us what and when to buy, he would be a popular person. No one could give a true or honest answer to that question. No one knows, it would be a guess.

Great advise White.

My dad has used Motley Fool for many years. He has never had an annual earned income over 35K. He is a multi-millionaire today and inherited nothing. Granted, he is 84 years old now and quite thrifty. He bought me a subscription last Christmas and there is some decent information to be gleaned from their stock picks.

Check out a youtube channel called "Carnivore Aaron Trades". He is basically a technical analyst and posts a 20 minute or so video on days the market is open. Great content on what happened that day and why and where he thinks things are going. Covers everything from the SPY and QQQ to financials, home builders, oil, uranium, gold, silver, bonds, dollar index, bitcoin, etc. It is a daily watch for me.

X3 White17 great advice. Still looking for my crystal ball))))))!!!!

Seeking Alpha. has a morning news letter. Gives you a run down of the week ahead. Talking Feds. Earning report dates and times. It is free.

IBKR is excellent. Steve Sosnick. Articles are for everyone to understand. Steve does a great job explaining markets. White17 told me about him awhile back.

white17- Any of your folks telling you of a 30-50% correction when the ole US of A slides into a major recession or an outright depression in the next couple of years...? Do anyone of such folks recommend either shorting specific stocks in general or the use of ETFs that are basically shorts...??

I follow Investor Village, There are a few smart people on there. You can take a lot of advice, but in the end, do what is right, for YOU. old243

If you have extra cash, let your wife save it!