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Any fee-site worth the money? - ronn38 - 12-30-2013
I pay for Morningstar premium service, and have found that to be quite worth the cost, but I was wondering if any of you feel there are other fee-based sites that are worth the cost?
I was considering the Dividend Investor Strategy service on Morningstar--but the cost (even for a premium member) doubt my annual MS costs--that's a lot!
I've heard great things about D4L-Premium Services, and of course The DBG just stared his own premium service.
Or is weekly cruise of the blogs we all know (dividend growth investor, dividend mantra, dbg, etc.) as good an any service?
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Ronn
RE: Any fee-site worth the money? - rnsmth - 12-31-2013
I use Morningstar's DividendInvestor newletter/service and FAST Graphs. I am not an overall Morningstar Premium subscriber.
Both of those have helped me make money and I think both are very well worth it. I do not think either is replaceable by free services for my purposes.
RE: Any fee-site worth the money? - Owner - 12-31-2013
I use fastgraphs and I think it is worth the 9.95/ month if you are doing a lot of stock buying. And I rarely pay for anything unless it is a good value so I guess that is saying something. It will allow you to follow many different stocks and see many years worth of earnings, price changes, dividend raises/cuts, etc, all in a glance. Doing all that research manually would be hundreds of hours. I normally follow about 125 different stocks, so it would be impossible.
RE: Any fee-site worth the money? - hendi_alex - 12-31-2013
I think that dividend detective is a very useful free site. They also have expanded access for paying users. They have lots of education info related to income investments. Also they have lots of fairly complete listings of various income investment classes.
http://www.dividenddetective.com/
I also like dividata which gives upcoming dividends and includes yield, years paying, dividata rating info.
http://dividata.com/dividates
CEF connect is a great source for in depth info related to various closed end funds.
http://www.cefconnect.com/
Quantum on line is probably the best source for info related to all forms of corporate debt instruments.
http://quantumonline.com/login.cfm
RE: Any fee-site worth the money? - mjs_28s - 01-02-2014
I like Fastgraphs and Borntosell, which is for my covered calls.
RE: Any fee-site worth the money? - Be Here Now - 03-03-2014
I rely on Morningstar Premium and FAST Graphs Premium.
RE: Any fee-site worth the money? - EricL - 03-04-2014
I use FAST Graphs as well and think its worth every penny of the reasonable $9.95 per month for the basic plan.
RE: Any fee-site worth the money? - Be Here Now - 05-24-2014
(03-03-2014, 07:58 PM)Be Here Now Wrote: I rely on Morningstar Premium and FAST Graphs Premium.I am technically oriented and use technical analysis to aid in identifying the 'best' buying opportunities, in the stocks that I want to own for the long term. I recently discovered stockrover.com, which has some excellent technical tools and some pretty good fundamental tools. I am giving stockrover a one year trial.
RE: Any fee-site worth the money? - Robandcindy2 - 06-08-2014
We first started with Richard Band-utra conservative value investor. But a couple of his choices cost me a lot in losses so moved on.
I actually began our DG investing with D4L. Very good author and ultra conservative analysis. However, after he announced several purchases that were waaaay above his buy price I moved on. No real explanations for this either... Still read his articles on SA.
I too am a M* subscriber and M* Dividend Subscriber. Really enjoy Josh's analysis and macroeconomic insights. He is our "fall back to" guy if the going gets tough as I clearly have way more stocks than he thinks you should have.
I also am a basic AAII subscriber. Tried their Dividend newsletter but scratched my head a lot over their stock choices so canceled that. Monthly magazine is very educational.
I also start every piece of analysis with FastGraphs.
Then moving to M* and then to see if Josh covers that company.
I then come here to see what pearls of wisdom exist about a company (heck, why reinvent the wheel?).
Then I head to SA and see what's covered over there.
There are quite a few authors out there, some with blogs, that actually have some good advice. Just have to be careful. Some professionals publish at SA too. Sometimes though I wonder why they are on SA at all.
Just remember, no body cares more about your money than you do.
RE: Any fee-site worth the money? - nixon5 - 07-12-2014
I am currently looking at Divsoft they have a tool to check when any of the current Dogs have a 10% pullback. Right now its FREE!!
RE: Any fee-site worth the money? - Be Here Now - 07-12-2014
Darren McCammon writes a blog on SA. One of his themes is the YMBC (you must be kidding) portfolio which is almost entirely in 2x leveraged ETNs. In one of the articles (http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/379412-darren-mccammon/3056245-you-must-be-crazy-high-yield-portfolio-risk-analysis) he describes a portfolio risk analysis tool that is available for free on a small scale at http://www.macroaxis.com. I have created a small portfolio with it and am starting to learn about all the features that are available. If anyone else has an interest in using this tool it might be profitable to discuss it here.