After reading some of comments on other threads, some praising others and some knocking others, I thought it might be interesting for us to comment on who's judgement you DO and DO NOT trust.

Any tips on this board should be taken with bucket of salt. Although they may point you in the right direction if YDYOH, if you don't your are an idiot and by bitching when you loose out advertising the fact.

Harrier - if you bought one of these just cos someone said so, continued to hold despite a growing loss, and then continue to blame someone else for your crass stupidity, then you made a mistake and should move on.

If you then bought the other cos the same someone said so, continued to hold despite a growing loss and then still blame that same person for your even crasser stuipidity and gross naivity then you are a danger to yourself. Either realign your mind yourself or go see a specialist who can help.

SueHelen? What a babe!

ps Harrier - you'd better hope you don't find him. His 'driver' is 7ft tall, legs like treetrunks, muscles like coconuts. He's well known as an 'enforcer' in the pan-european underworld, and has the sort of mates you wouldnt want to bump into.

goldfinger is pretty crap at tipping shares.............i've seen a lot of his in last 2 years

People on tip on free BB for one reason. If you haven't worked it out yet buy a basket of these baskets and learn the hard way. Some very switched on posters in here but they get drowned out it's like trying to find a christain in mecca during haj.

More scams than Ebay

Dil is ever more my hero. He can drive by my caravan any time cos I'd love to bump into those coconuts.

Can anyone tell me why trouble follows Dil everywhere ?

Endorse what Scrip says. If you buy anything which does not make money, generate cash and pay dividends, then do not bleat if you lose it (in some cases, fairly quickly).

contie cause he's a herb ;-)

ask a simple question??? lol.

Best - ninceonecyril. Only two tips in MoneyAM, VOG more than trebled at one stage and IEC almost doubled. Both shares were tipped in July at 41p and 296p respectively. I think VOG is now hovering around 96p and IEC is about 450p.

Worst - has to be goldfinger. Too many examples - take your pick. Follow goldfinger's tips and you'll end up with burnt fingers. This guy works in industrial cleaning and his tips are just good the bucket. Maybe we should call him burnfinger!

Thank you Ramu, for well written and sensilble reply.

Bit harsh on Goldfinger , posts a lot of sense on many threads imo.

Worst ... Sue Helen , best .... your own research.

Kivver: Over many years, I too have searched for the Holy Grail of investment - Just find out who usually gets it right and follow them. Often at the year end, many national papers publish their assessment of fund managers' performance, aiming to identify the master, but among the many thousands of professional and amateur researchers, there seems to be no outright winner, or if there is , they are keeping very quiet. The best I've ever found was John Lee an FT colunmist, who some years ago made a genuine 1M in his PEP/ISA and in the process, led readers along the way (I followed only a short distance); unfortunately, he is much less active nowadays.
Throughout this year, I have been using Sharescope watchlists to chart the tips from all the main contributors on this BB, to see whether anyone stands out and so save us all a lot of DYOR research. There is no clear winner and I will be reporting my impressions of this survey at the year end.
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Interesting idea squidd but if there were a holy grail do you really think "gurus" like Michael Walters and Tom Winnifrith would be charging users to access their "tips" ?

Better off finding something your comfortable with and works for you and sticking to it.

Good luck.

its got to be me ;-)

cause my tips are TFC SER SCO PXC ORM BSP CSH

Well your above MW and TW imo :-)

well things never cease to amaze me, I knew you was one of the worst tipsters Kat but too come on here and nominate yourself and actually mention all the tips we should all stay well away from was very brave. Thanks for your honesty and warning.

Worst goldfinger - after making copious research, all his tips are usually at the bottom when he tips them, people buy they go up he sells. Nice arrangement.

Even more bad is paul masterson. Mind you if you short any of this tips, you come up a very big winner. ( i.e. EVS MMG LGB). On second thoughts, shame he is banned really.

ringo , you contradict yourself,,
lets get this straight ,Goldfinger tips a share at the bottom ,, people buy,, they go up ,, he sells,, why don't people sell ???
If the SP has gone up ,,you've made money.. I'm confused..