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Investors Business Daily

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The advice given in IBD is tremendously useful to both the novice investor and to the more seasoned investor. Following the CAN SLIM rules set forth by IBD along with the rules for investment success that IBD provides will enable you to be successful in your investment endeavors. The IBD 100 is a useful tool in which IBD ranks the top 100 stocks, based on fundamentals, etc. Obviously, the editorials prove to be controversial. If you're interested in making money and you don't agree with the views of the staff, simply don't read that page. I don't and I make money. If you want to ignore this paper simply because of its conservative viewpoints, you are probably doing yourself a great disservice. Yes, there are cheaper financial newspapers out there. The point; however, is not what you put into something--it's what you get out of it. The return on investment can be astounding if you let it.

You may think twice when you see the subscription price. DON'T!!!

Investors Business Daily (IBD) is the top resource for beginner to professional investor. Each day IBD uses their highly successful CAN SLIM formula for identifying the next up and coming stocks. Great Features include:

The Big Picture - A daily paragraph reviewing the previous days activity, along with a barometer of how the market is doing.

The Real Most Active - List of stocks that see unusual increases/decreases in volume trading. Not your typical Microsoft/Cisco/Nasdaq 100 list.

Investor's Corner - A daily lesson on becoming a better investor. Using history and examples.

IBD 100 - The current 100 most promising stocks recognized by IBM thru a multitude of fundamentals.

Leaders and Success - A daily biography of a historical political/business/military/sport leader and how they changed the face of their industry.

Finally, when you subscribe you get access to the IBD Learning Center which gives lessons on buying and selling.

If you pickup one lesson from this newspaper it will more than save you or make you back the subscription fee.

My greatest lesson learned thus far:
No matter what, if a stock falls below 7-8% of your initial purchase price, sell it. No matter what.

Now a fifth year subscriber, this paper is my investing Bible. But remember, it's the INVESTOR'S, not TRADER'S Business Daily. If you learn and follow their CANSLIM method you will be a successful investor. Get rich quick? No, but you can definitely manage your own stock portfolio better than your investment advisor or mutual fund manager can. Give yourself two years to learn, and expect to make all of the typical mistakes, and probably lose some money. After two years, if you stick with it and learn from your mistakes you will be ready to make your stock portfolio grow. There's nothing more satisfying than controlling your own money successfully. Skip the right-wing drivel on the editorial page. I read it just for a giggle occasionally. But the advice on investing is GOLD!!!

I have enjoyed subscribing to this newspaper; also for it's online access. It has some interesting articles some times. It provides insight and valuable information about many companies (stocks) that I find interesting as well as about other news related to business. It does have some conservative writers; but it is only in the editorials and a few articles. I recommend this newspaper along with the Financial Times. The IBD does not have the range of articles as the Financial times.

I signed up for the two-month trial to Investors Business Daily, and spent the whole time trying to overcome my suspicions that IBD was a an elaborate scam to suck money out of hapless individual investors. The IBD 50, Mutual Fund review, and other lists are useful starting points for evaluating investments. But the "editorial" that reports on these stocks is shallow at best, and often seemed biased - as if the writers were trying to manipulate the reader's opinion. Same thing for "reviews", such as the new iPhone for Verizon. Is Verizon a big advertiser in the paper? The editorial sounded too much like advertising for my taste.

Other aspects of the paper rubbed me the wrong way: the charts are so small that you can't read any meaningful data from them, so of course you need to pay extra to see the electronic version (eIBD). My conclusion is that there is more value in reading William O'Neil's book "How to make Money in Stocks" that is free with your IBD trial subscription. The daily information you need to apply his principles is generally available free on your brokerage house website - such as Fidelity or Vanguard- although minus the hand-holding.

This is a great paper for investors who like to do research. It is not a paper for editorial content. I found IBD's investment approach very logical. They give you all the data you need to find quality stocks. I have never read the editorials because their reputation. If I want editorial content I will go to newspapers or magazines.

Mark LaMoure, Boise, ID

I've enjoyed reading IBD since 1987. Nothing I've seen in 25 years even compares to it. As a first-class, daily investing newspaper for self-education on the stock market, its outstanding. IBD is the finest newspaper of its kind covering the stock market. It offers sparkling, gold nugget news stories that give you precious insight for investing. IBD's insider's secrets are superior.

IBD is full of blue chip, top level information. It merits my gold seal of approval. I believe the useful ideas in IBD makes it the finest newspaper of its kind in the world today. Exciting on multiple levels, IBD's helpful insider's tips are superior for starting investors all the way up to the professional.

The newspaper is rich with top value information. With IBD's trademark CAN SLIM formula (For better investing), IBD's Top 50, IBD's Top 2500, The Big Picture, Leaders And Success and Investor's Corner (For better investing lessons) -nothing comes close. These are just a few of IBD's blue ribbon investing tools. The newspaper delivers far more excellent material than you would ever expect. I'm not exaggerating. Check it out.

For a great, 3rd-person opinion about IBD, check out the book called: Investor's Business Daily and the Making of Millionaires: How IBD Rewrote the Rules of Investing and Business News. This excellent, 4 Gold Star book gives you golden insider's secrets on IBD's many lucrative uses. You can't afford not to check it out.

IBD's price pales in comparison to the value of its powerful enrichment potential. The newspaper uses top investment research with stories and information that are of the highest caliber anywhere.

I rate this newspaper: FIVE GOLD STARS, or higher. For excellence in investing guidance, analysis on Wall Street and world affairs, IBD provides you with a powerhouse of investing ideas not found in other stock market newspapers anywhere else. With a gilded shine, you'll savor the newspaper's top wisdom and significant ideas. No doubt in my mind, IBD is phenomenal.

Have to say that I am underwhelmed by this paper. The whole investment strategy is momentum based. Every day they select the IBD "top 50" which purports to be those stocks that rate the highest on their selection system. However, they repeatedly advise against buying any stock that has increased by 5% or more over its chart base. However, virtually all of the stocks on the top 50 are above 5% of their breakout or they wouldn't qualify as momentum stocks in the first place. The magic moment for an IBD pick just really does not exist

The system is absolutely useless in timing your buys relative to the market. A "99" relative strength stock is just that in a tumbling as well as a rising market. What the system is good for is picking stocks that will likely lead the pack in a solid bull market; so, its more like a good times stock picker. Rely on it for true "investment advice" at your peril.

This is a good newspaper with TONS of financial data on individual stocks. But their recommendations are typically very reactionary and are pure momentum picks(where the stock has already appreciated substantially). Rarely are there any sort of contrarian picks or stock that have not already moved a good percentage in price.

Also, as has been mentioned before, their editorials are so right-wing that it makes for nothing more than sensational comedy.

The investing advise, fundamental and charting is the best in the market. The other people writing reviews about the IBD Editorial as right-wing extreme are incorrect. It is a CAPITALIST, FREE MARKET perspective. If you believe in free market economics, you will understand that the other comments are probably coming from socialist minded readers, still good investors perhaps, but have their views incorrect. IBD does not push social agendas, it pushes what is good for the market, the free competition of corporations, less government intervention and prosperity. If you want to learn about the free market capitalist system, then read these editorial pages.