Getting out of Zeal Newsletter Subscription
Posted by Frugal on December 14th, 2007
Adam Hamilton is an excellent writer as a gold-focused newsletter. But that does not help you much.
My personal experience with Zeal Intelligence newsletter is that it talks about the general market conditions a lot more than individual companies. He has a risk ranking of some 30 to 50 resource companies. But that doesn’t help me to select and narrow down to just a few.
Furthermore, his trading records don’t appear to be all that great. He was stopped out of MANY positions on August 16 2006, even though he claims that his performance for investing near the August 16 bottom is terrific. Well, yes of course, when you constantly recommending purchases month after month. And if you don’t include and factor in all those stocks that were stopped out with heavy losses.
And certainly, one of the bad thing about Zeal is that they do NOT refund your subscription at all. I could NOT find a trial period either. I guess that I should have taken that as a sign.
Certainly I still valued Zeal’s publication and analysis highly, as a guide for the general trend/valuation of the gold market. However, I think reading those free posts from 321gold.com is probably sufficient, since Zeal Intelligence offers few actual stock picks.
The above is SOLELY my own opinion as a past subscriber. Please read my disclaimer. I welcome any other differing opinions and comments posted in the comment sections. All people are advised to read the comment sections for any other inputs.
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December 14th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Frugal,
As far as advice in the arena of PM, I think you may find value in replacing your Zeal subscription with one from Steven Kaplan at www.truecontrarian.com or perhaps reading Tom Szabo’s updates on his silveraxis.com website. Mr. Szabo is wirking on a pay site for the new year and I feel it will be a valuable resource. Mr. Kaplan gives a broader view than just the PM sector, and reading him helps keeps one balanced with an opposing viewpoint to the popular one.
Keep learning and sharing with us!
December 14th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
I don’t blame you, Frugal. If you want an overall view of the market, turn on CNBC and listen to the talking heads for a few minutes.
I’d love to have a resource that profiles, in depth, individual stocks. Not necessarily a recommendation to buy, sell or hold, but just an overview of the company, and maybe a comparison to the peers in the industry.
I’ve started trying to do this at my blog, as I’ve come across few others that actually dig into the financials of individual companies.
I’ve never really put much credibility into financial newsletters. The guy writing them is out to make money, plain and simple, and could really care less if you make money off his recommendations, so long as he gets your subscription. And it appears in your case, he has no intention of giving your money back if you determine his paper is nothing more than a rag.
-Grant