All,

Adverts for tipsheets abound, all making their own various claims of success, some of which are somewhat dubious, to say the least.

In particular, I am thinking of the tipster that advertises his gains by using mid prices, which grossly distorts the true figure, if you were to utilise the bid-offer spreads that existed at the time.

I see adverts for Trendwatch, Red Hot Penny Shares, Growth Company Investor, Fleet Street Letter, to name but a few.

The question is, is there a GOOD tipshheet/tipster out there?

Is there a tipster/tipsheet that gives only occasional tips, rather than the "3 tips every week" type?

If so, please name them, and give your reasons for the nomination.
An idea of subscription price may be helpful as well, in case anyone was thinking of purchasing.

looking forward to some interesting replies!

TIA

extract from a piece in The Tgraf:



.... All I've done is adapt some analysis he (Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England) recently employed in a speech to the British Academy, called
What Fates Impose: Facing up to Uncertainty.

His lecture is filled with cautionary tales. My favourite - largely
because it's the time of year when big `eads like myself are supposed to make
hubristic forecasts (and you should turn the page now if you're expecting one
of those) - is his scam for persuading investors that he has perfect
foresight when it comes to predicting stock market movements.

What this King of cons would do is select 6,000 names at random from the London
telephone directory. And he would then divide them into two equal groups and
send letters to one group predicting that the market will rise over the
succeeding week, while the other group would be sent letters forecasting that
it will fall.

If shares rise, he will then write again only to the 3,000 people to whom he
gave the right prediction. And again he will split them into two groups, and
despatch missives to each group, with half the letters calling an imminent fall
and the other half prognosticating a rise.

This process of binary fission is repeated for several more weeks, with letters
only being sent to recipients of accurate predictions. Anyway, after five
weeks, there would be 187.5 people who would probably be convinced that the
Governor - as King should for ever be known in the community of grifters
and hucksters - has almost magical powers to predict market movements.
And if he so chose, he would probably persuade a fair old number of them to
hand over their life savings to him...

Havent read all the way back on this thread, but how many of you subscribe to MoneyWeek - which I consider a little gem. Whilst it(since its a digest) does not give tips of its own it shows a rare ability to cull the worlds news for good companies. Working on the old basis that, unless the tipster has discovered a RARE GEM the initial post disclosure price will NOT hold through two weeks, its always possible to, then, make a sensible purchase. Of course you do have to have the ability to recognize a future star rather than a market puff...but this is not all that hard. Some are genuine stars and fail for good reasons, mainly bad luck.Some are run by crooks or incompetents and some are so good that you spend the rest of your day's thanking the Gods that you noticed them AND took action. I must confess that I prefer the reflective rather than the imperative and, thus, prefer MoneyWeek to most others.

hildee,

Thanks, I would like to have monitored Moneyweek for a few editions, but sadly the only place I know where you can buy it "off the shelf" is WHS in Kings Cross Station!


And as I am rarely there, I haven't really has the chance to form an opinion.

My initial observation is that I already receive the daily newspaper tips, aso n ot much else to add in Moneyweek, as they list them too.

Stop mucking about lads, although just 4 weeks behind so what, use your noggings.

http://www.techinvest.co.uk/NewBuys.php

The best tip site going andIm giving it you more or less free, plus you dont get taken in in the first week or so by the greedy MMs.

cheers GF.

Know what I mean? LOL. Happy new year.

cheers GF. Deal Group Media DGM for the top 2005.

Goldfinger,

Yes a timely reminder for techinvest, and looking at the table, they have dome ok again thois year, and our shareclub would have exited the large losses around the 20% mark, so would have gained more then the claimed 7% easily.

Chers, and a Happy New Year to you too!


ps

PDX will be 2005 champions IMHO!

Hi All
The Zurich Club
Part of the Fleetstreet Publishing stable, "private investor's network"
They look a very professional group and claim to tipped gains:
125% Wimpey
202% Glisten
98% House of Fraser
25% MEPC
87% IMPERIAL TOBACCO
46% Travis Perkins
96% powergen electricity
39% great universal Stores
123% Galagher Group
67%Matin International
They are a subscription only 120.00pa--selective customer---service
If anyone interested I could post further info
alan

Andy The Moneyweek subscription line is 0870 126 1720 and you can have the thing posted each week. Costs me around 1.20 and is well worth every penny. The point being that it culls from sources your newspaper doesnt even consider.As to the other ones. I found Techinvest to be rather difficult to follow and seems to produce more tips that I could ever follow. Since it then picks the best of that blanket to claim advances it follows that, unless you backed them all, you are not always a winner.The Zurich Club (I was, also, a subscriber) - I found to be pretentious and somewhat boring.Covering areas I might LIKE to indulge in -like second passports and secreted bank accounts But, since I am NOT a multi millionaire....

Techinvest's 7 year record looks pretty decent!

http://www.techinvest.ie/NewBuys.php

scottie7
no offence, but ive been invited to join the "exclusive Zurich Group" at least 4 times in the last 12 months.

In answer to your question, no, I don't think so. They only broadcast the successful ones. I think The Naked trader's site's not bad.