Newsletter

Most of the newsletter writers offer their subscribers access to a special
telephone hot-line service. Most newsletters are published and mailed once a month. They usually offer their paid members recommendations to Buy, Sell, or Hold specific categories of stocks.

The majority make 2 to 3 stock picks per issue. Any good newsletter will
always provide information on the progress of all the previous picks from
the past issues. The newsletters are all mailed at the same time. Some
people get their letter in one day, while others wait 3 to 4 days, or more.

Note! It is our opinion that printed and snail-mailed newsletters have become obsolete. Waiting for your stock picks to show up via the postal service puts you at a distinct disadvantage. Every member that lives closer than you do to the publisher will get their newsletter (picks) before you do.   

And, the main reason most newsletter stock pickers won't make the transition to a web-based service is because they're able to sell many of their members a telephone hot-line service for an additional $50 bucks a year. They could put everything on a web-site and e-mail you an alert instantly. But, they won't do it until they're forced to. Competition changes everything.

Some newsletter publishers offer a special over-night mailing service for an
extra charge. Again, why pay extra for a 1 day late piece of information! It's obvious that at some point e-mail and web-based services will force even the most ardent die-hard publisher to make the transition. We saw the light!

So look at the phone hot-line services very carefully. It's my opinion that they're just not as useful as they once were. Once you try an e-mail alert service with a web-based member area you'll never go back to the old way.

If an e-mail alert web-based newsletter issues a buy recommendation on a specific stock at $1.00 a share on Friday night, every subscriber has an equal and fair chance get in at the same time at the market open on Monday.

Old style newsletters would show up on Tuesday through Thursday and you could unfairly miss the buy-in price of $1.00 per share. All those lucky members who lived closer to the publisher got a chance to buy in early at a cheaper price. This usually drives the share prices higher before all those unlucky members get a chance to enter the market and place a trade.