Does anyone subscribe to the Motley Fool Stock Advisor?
There are a lot of “stock advisor” newsletters on the market today. Each has it’s own specific philosophy on how to make money in the stock market. Almost all of them have good picks and all of them have failures. There is nothing really wrong with them, it is just that there really isn’t anything right either. What this means is no one has a crystal ball to predict how the market will do over a specific time period. If all these newsletters were an accurate gauge of future market performance, there would have not been such a massive loss of wealth in this last market down turn. None of the popular advisor letters saw this big market correction coming. In the Motley Fool stock advisor newsletter, over a five year period (2002-2007) they done rather well. Before the latest market downturn, they were averaging a 22% return. But, to accomplish this, they were spread over 134 stock positions. This means you need to have a sizeable amount of money to invest to be able to match their perform
