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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
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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.
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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.
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I like Fastgraphs and Borntosell, which is for my covered calls.
I rely on Morningstar Premium and FAST Graphs Premium.
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I use FAST Graphs as well and think its worth every penny of the reasonable $9.95 per month for the basic plan.
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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.
There are people who use up their entire lives making money so they can enjoy the lives they have entirely used up
Frederick Buechner
