@garyt, now you're being silly. Do you work for MF or some other industry player?
>>>>I'm being silly? You're the one whom said the guy is on an island with all the money his stock picks made him. And no, I have nothing to do with MF other than I once used the service.
A trivial problem if someone actually has some skill.
That's a big "If." There is a century or more of data that says that stock picking doesn't work. The root cause of this is that stock prices are best approximated by a random process. Harry Markowitz made this observation the foundation of Modern Portfolio Theory in 1952. The average stock picker will achieve the market average less his costs. Deviations from the average are due to luck. Try Ken French on picking a manager:
https://famafrench.dimensional.com/videos/identifying-superior-managers.aspx
Think how much he'd have if he knew how to pick stocks!
>>>>Cute but more silliness, you said these guys make pennies on newsletters.
Malcolm Forbes: "The only way to make money with a (market timing) newsletter is by selling one." David Garner knows this.
>>>>>MARKET TIMING being the important words there, nobody's talking about market timers, but you knew that
Jeez. Competition 101: Your buys cost you more and your sells yield less. You can avoid this by buying and selling before you tell the crowd, aka "front running," aka "pump and dump," aka illegal price manipulation.
>>>You never bought more of one of your winners as it went up? So long as the financials show it's going up higher, who cares? If it never goes up, you don't make any money
Do you read at all? >>> Nice veiled insult I can recommend some books. You can also start with Nobel winner William Sharpe's three page paper:
https://web.stanford.edu/~wfsharpe/art/active/active.htm and Google "S&P U.S. Persistence Scorecard" to see the randomness.