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BlueLight
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December 15, 2021 3:26 pm

I’ve subscribed to Contrarian Outlook for around 10 months. When I first started, I thought it was a reasonably decent service and value for the money. I did start to make money at first, but then again, the market was gaining so it was a higher probability to gain. The problems I ran into is Brett’s buy up to amount for many of his recommended CEFs and stocks are much too high. If you bought at these recommended prices, you would lose much more than the yields’ income provided. For example, FAX was recommended to buy up to $4.45 It is now under $4 and oftentimes quite a bit under – plus FAX is a very poor performer anyways historically not covering its yield. I ran into the same issue with many of Brett’s recommended CEFs and stock. The damage would be limited if he issued a reasonable exit price or limit stop price but i had to sell many CEFs before too much damage was done. I was primarily interested in CEFs but much of the newsletter is devoted to stocks I wouldn’t be interested in. The portfolio is limited to under 50 names and rarely changes much. His articles are repetitive and way too much hype to my liking. He appears to be very knowledgeable, but his newsletter and its low price seem to be designed to upsell you to his more expensive offering like CEF insider or his books. In summary. it started out promising but was more glitz than substance. This is not to say you can’t make some money with his advice, especially if you are a long term buy and holder. Just not my cup of tea. I’d now rate it 2 stars overall.

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grouchyoldman
December 25, 2021 2:09 am

Agree with some of the comments by the first poster. I’ve been a subscriber for 2 years. If you look at each of his recommendations and do your due diligence, you can make out fairly well. I have about 25% of my portfolio with his recommendations. They have done very well with 1 or 2 exceptions. I will remain a subscriber.

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September 27, 2023 3:01 pm

Losses with Contrarian Outlook can never be recovered.
In these 4 ETF’s alone DSL MPW LAD DFP I have taken losses of nearly $100,000.
Additional losers almost too many to mention are CCI D DLY PK BXMT CIM PMT RQJ AWF
ABR KMI RITM UTF.
Chasing yield with Contrarian Outlook is not worth the risk.

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January 5, 2024 12:13 pm

Subscriber of all 3 newsletters for 3 years here with over 3 mil, 1 mil playing with each newletter(DST, HY, and CI): The problem is that these newsletters are not financial advise necessarily and the amount the writer has on the line is unknown if any. Dividend Swing Trader lost me the most amount of money, tens of thousands by following their advice closely. Hidden Yields, I would have done better just putting it in the S&P and moving on. Contrarian Outlook (cheapest newsletter) has beat S&P 500 and provided income, just nothing near what is professed in the monthly newsletters or what is advertised to get you hooked into some entertaining writing by Brett. If you find yourself midway through a newsletter and paid for an annual subscription of somewhere around $900 bucks for DST, they will not prorate you funds but will apply them to other newsletters.

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Turcotte
February 3, 2024 4:35 pm
Reply to  Justin

Justin, could you provide some added detail about why you think the Dividend Swing Trader stuff failed you. I’ve been pretty happy with the basic service and was considering buying into one of their other products and was leaning towards DST, so your experience is making me re-evaluate, can you provide more info? Thanks.

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Randy
February 12, 2024 8:46 pm
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I take offense with your comment that the CIR beat the S&P500. He has never beaten the S&P. I have lost an embarrassing amount of money by following Brett’s recommendations. It’s especially harsh on new investors, because most of his pics fail. His portfolio looks good due to the years ago buys.
Notice he does not publish or make it easy to see his returns.
The S&P is a better place for your money. Larger growth. Forget Divs.
Just invest in the S&P, and sell what you need to pay your bills.
Take a look at his CLOSED positions. Portfolio destroyers is what it should be called.
What kind of incompetent, would invest in MPW or Six Flags. I didn’t; thank goodness.

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