Let's say that you place an order to buy a 1000 shares of some penny stock at $1.00 a share. You place the order over the weekend. Let's assume that you get 1000 shares at the $1.00 price on Monday. If you got your newsletter Tuesday
and the price is up just 1/8th, then you'll pay $125.00 more for the order.

That $125.00 is lost money due to old information! If you miss a recommendation to sell a penny stock, or a "Do Not Buy" recommendation, you could loose much more due to people selling off shares to get out. Old information is becoming very expensive.

The hot-line can make the newsletter publisher a very large sum of money. That's precisely why they do not want to make the transition to e-mail alerts and web-based content. They will not sell you the telephone hot-line service by itself. You must buy the late obsolete newsletter to get the hot-line!

When we started our service we considered fax alerts, telephone hot-lines, and e-mail alerts. E-mail alerts made the most sense. If we ever decided to launch any of the other two options we would not make buying a newsletter mandatory. To do so would be blatantly unfair to any and all subscribers.

There's something else we need to discuss. Some newsletters make one
(1) recommendation a month. Others make 4 or 5 a month, or as many
as 10 to 15 a month. Many only make 7 or 8 recommendations a year.
There's no set rule when it comes to how many is enough.

I personally just can't imagine, how any newsletter writer, could expect
any investor to purchase 4 or 5 stocks at one time, much less 10 to 15.
I would only subscribe to newsletters that recommend one (1) stock, or
2 to 3 stocks a month. This is what I would feel comfortable with.

Look at it this way. Which one of the stocks recommended is the best one to buy? Which one should I load up on? Which one has the most or least
amount of risk? Which one, which one, which one? Yes, I realize that the
research can indicate that each one could be the "stock-of-all-stocks".

But be realistic! Most people just can't afford to buy enough shares of
each stock that gets recommended, and even if they could, I would not
suggest doing so. What happens when the next issue comes out? Do you
dump what you brought the month before and start all over again?