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Recently I have been considering to subscribe to Fat Prophets. They seems to perform quite well and their idea "Buy in gloom, sell in boom" looks like good one. In fact I've used this approach myself for long time and it worked for me. Now I have many other things to do and really keen to have someone to do such research for me. Fat Prophets seem to fit the picture. Does anyone has expirience with them? Any opinions?
 
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Why do you want to pay someone else if what you are doing is already working?
 
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Trading stocks is not my main business any more. Researching stocks takes alot of time and it prevents me from doing other things. After 7 years in the market I think to move on. But I believe that stock market is good place to preserve the capital (sound strange but in my expirience it is primary goal of a good investor - making money is secondary goal). Thus I need someone reliable with good reputation who will do research in about same style as I did.
 
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I just realised that my post sounds like fan mail for Fat Prophets! But really, I took a long time figuring out who was best I felt more comfortable with their open approach. Best Advice Is: TRY BEFORE YOU BUY! 8)

There are a whole lot of tipsheets that give you samples. I've started another thread on Tipsheets so if you want to compare have a look.

I'm still trying out FatProphets so my opinion is still being formed but I have very little that is negative to say at the moment. They also have 30 day money back guarantee but I don't know if it's that easy to get out once they get your cash.

RichKid
 
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I did comment on their strategy somewhere else in this forum already. Personally I don't think you should invest with somebody like fat prophets if you don't have time to check what they are trying to recommend. In this case you would be better off investing into a professional fund rather than putting your money onto the line by following a stock tip sheet.

You can't have it all. You either put the time into research or you leave it to somebody else. But if you do, you better make sure you know what's going on behind the doors. I VERY MUCH doubt that ANY of those stock tip companies would stand a proper investigation into their performance figures.

My 2 cents worth of advice:
Stay well clear of these Gurus.

Happy trading

Stefan
 
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Well... That's good point that no one should rush into buying stock just on recommendation of some Guru. And I believe that doing so will be act of stupidity. ;D

I simply do not have time to do bottom up analysis, reading through balance sheets, calculating actual (which I believe is actual) company worth and comparing it with market capitalization and then reading and tracking current news about particular company. I would prefer someone to do this job, give me list of companies which fit my model and then I can do abovementioned steps only to recommended stocks.

When I read through FP site I was surprised with their "openness" but when they claim that their performance was audited by big accounting firm I would really like to have name of that company (and such company probably will want to have their name out there as well). I would like to verify their claims before I will commit my money to something which they claim to be good enough picks. I always have doubt that any tipster may be ramping up the stock for their own benefit (provided they have good number of subscribers).

On other hand I took the list of their former recommendations and recalculated their performance. If the list is actual and no bad recommendations witheld then their claim for their performance seems to be true. Probably I will be able to say for sure when I will buy up their old issues and recalculate their performance.

In my opinion there's not big difference between fund managers, tipsters + stock exchange or banks... In all cases there are three components: your money, manager, investment vehicle. They just blended different way. As combination of stock picks + stock exchange provides more flexibility than managed fund I prefer to have greater control over my capital.

Stefan: I will invest your 2 cents of advice and then will see what kind of dividents I will get...
 
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Mega, I need you to correct the email address in your profile ASAP.

I'm getting your automated alerts for this thread bounced back at me.

Thanks!
 
MA's and Fat Prophets

Well since my last post I have been looking around these and other sites regarding a simple entry and exit point for some sort of system.
Seems the majority prefer moving average types, 3 13 39 5 15 30
etc. All warning of whipsaws etc. Some say include a Directional movement indicator to avoid the above.
We have ppls for and against including ROR , OBV and ADX in the above
analysis
Yes I am looking to go down the path of Mechanical Trading.
Anyhows I am in Darwin, and last Thursday I went along to a Fat Prophets
investment evening, The two boys were there explaining their golden rules and future of gold, oil and the finance sectors.
Wasn't a bad evening.
Cheers
starlight

ps a pat on the back for the admin ppls who look after this forum.
 
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Hi Starlight,
Welcome to ASF! Must be hot up there nowadays with summer in full swing.
Like to share what the fat boys had to say about futures, gold, oil etc?
I'm interested.

Also, thanks for the thumbs up about the admin- Joe is the main workhorse, slowly but surely taking this site to dizzy heights!!
 
Re: MA's and Fat Prophets

Hi Richkid
We dont have the four seasons here in the Top end, Its either the WET or the DRY. The Wet is here with us now, high humidity and welcome rain at some times. The monsoon should really wet us when it normally arrives here around Christmas.

A brief was not issued at the meeting, so I had to take notes......

The Fat Boys (your term :>) advised on avoiding the Banks, avoid the US, avoid international trusts funds portfolios. Also avoid growth!!! I misssed the meaning of that???
The good news was LHG Lion and OSA.
Their Golden Investment Rules were a bit contradictory, I dont believe you can have a plan and be contrarian within the same plan.
 
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Thanks starlight, yes, I should have remembered about the tropical climate (or is it subtropical?).

Yeah, don't know what they mean by avoid growth, maybe they expect lots of volatility. They have their own hold and hope strategy, not stop losses from memory, they are all about stock selection and seem to have a good track record (I haven't audited it myself though), there is a thread here on ASF on Fat prophets that you may like to look at, do a search it should come up or ask me. LHG is already running so they're okay on that front. Will look at OSA too. Their site has lots of free tips, they publish them so that the public can jack up the price once the subscribers are on it early imo. the FP site is quite good btw.

Look forward to chatting with you more, enjoy the forums!
 
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Thanks Richkid
It is tropical, and we are now in our build up towards the wet.
Yes I have been to the FP site many times, but please remember FP lean towards investment not trading.
I went along to their course because it is a novelty to see such (may I say)
'talent' here in the Top End re ASX.
Is that right? you have posted 1700 odd posts here?
oh dont forget Lion
cheers
sl
 
Re: MA's and Fat Prophets

hi fellows, thought i'd chip in a bit...

i subscribe to Fat Prophets weekly recommendations. bought about 5 stocks on your recommendation list but sold out all but one. they seem to be investors more than traders. my subscription finishes next june or will be monitoring their performance.

starlight, missed the seminar in darwin by the fat boys... was down with a flu bug. i hope the coming wet season is forgiving... can't take another cyclone warning.
 
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Hi Kerosam
You sound a bit worried if we do have a cyclone warning, sounds like you experienced Tracey.
 
Re: MA's and Fat Prophets

starlight said:
Thanks Richkid
It is tropical, and we are now in our build up towards the wet.
Yes I have been to the FP site many times, but please remember FP lean towards investment not trading.,,,
Click to expand...

Hi Starlight,
Yes, investment is there ethos. I've posted a lot but that doesn't mean quality I'm afraid! I like fat prophets explanations and general layout.
I notice they have some big winners, and some big losers and don't use stop losses, that's a worry but they must be doing well with this bull market.
Interesting to discuss these tipsheets....
 
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Starlight,
I like the avatar!

"Don't go for growth...."
I like that one. The industry is designed to beat you into submission just to support those who have interests in the industry.

Snake
 
Re: MA's and Fat Prophets- starlight & snake pliskin

Starlight,

only here for about two years but the stress i got from Ingrid was bad enough. hope the early down pour this season will minimise the build up peak early next year.

Snake pliskin, i think it is a good idea to discuss about Fat prophets recommendations... to get others' opinions. i hold GGN, one of their recommendations. Got them at 33 cents and was glad there are finally some up movement after 2 months. Telstra was a disaster.

how about yourself?

note: would we start a new thread instead?
 
Re: MA's and Fat Prophets- starlight & snake pliskin


Kerosam,
I'm not sure what your last line means but I don't subscribe to any tipsters or recommendation companies.
 
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I dont subscribe to any either Kerosam.
Am working on a mechanical trading plan, I think thats what it is refered to here. I wish to stop being influenced by the newspapers and other media regarding the markets.
 
Re: MA's and Fat Prophets- starlight & snake pliskin


Hi Kerosam,
I was thinking of starting a new thread and then realised it would be easier to merge this thread with an existing one on fat prophets, so here we are, all the fat prophets discussion in one thread. There's also a thread on the Fat Prophets listed investment company called the fat fund in the ASX stock chat forum.
 
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