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dpt2369
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dpt2369
February 28, 2013 2:51 pm

Can’t say enough good things about Dividend Lab and Todd Johnson. He as well as his service has been a tremendous help to my investment strategy, education, and personal stock portfolio. I have also learned about hedging with options which I now do with my portfolio.

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sunnyjim
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sunnyjim
August 17, 2013 12:46 am

high unnecessary trading generated 22 k1- first year, very egotistical thinks he is the best stock picker in the world.
Plays favorites on the forum and berates any one that asks questions he dose not have a good answer for.
will not publish year to date returns, these would be much lower if trading costs were included .

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tomray
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tomray
August 25, 2014 10:08 pm

hello
tried his option portfolio all calendar calls lets many short calls go in the money with no guidance . then will post to friends on the blog site forum that he sent them a email to adjust calls . has a private group of friends that get all the investment information first and admits it . the paid subscriber is last on the list to get any guidance , people seem to be leaving the newsletter in mass and as they do he gets angry and ignores the remaining mostly subscribers that paid for the annual subscription . Avoid Todd he is a big talker that will stab you in the back.

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wary
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wary
December 17, 2014 10:16 pm

unreliable at best, misleading , missing news letters. forum members giving investment advice not professional. many broken promises( i will have a update tomorrow never comes) always trying to get you to Singh up for some new services
that will help you follow hedge or use quant screens to manage investments already recommended. in short stay away from from this site

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wary
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wary
March 24, 2015 1:38 pm

now has qaunt screens guaranteed results
2 years of great returns i subscribed since he started the screens were never posted he promoted screens from AAII now out of the blue he has a guaranteed money machine that only a lucky few will be able to take part in.
lost my ass on his option portfolio he turned it over to a former subscriber a non professional while he developed on his newest investment idea “quant screens”
best stay away from Tood

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Robd
September 26, 2016 4:28 pm

Here is the problem I have with Todd; while he is bright and sincere, he is highly defended and sanctimonious. He has a small coterie of fanboys who spend their life posting comments and participating in forums.The problem is that Todd is doing newsletters, charging a high fee, but of course the disclaimer that subscribers will not likely “copy” his portfolio, and, besides, it is only a newsletter, they are not financial advisors, one should do one’s own “due diligence”. While I realize that any newsletter service needs this disclaimer, in the case of Todd’s very active service and frequent recommendations, “due diligence” on the part of the subscriber is not really possible, unless your whole life is spend doing this.

I just looked at the web site dividendlab. com. The “Big Deal” subscription claims to have returned 248% last year compared to 33% for the SPY. I know that this service requires very active involvement of the subscriber, much more than is realistic for most of us. In addition, that return is the theoretical return if you had executed trades right when Todd did them. Of course the trades are done usually well before you get the notice, or look at the notice on your email, so it is impossible to know if you would get anthing like that return. Doubtful.
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The Advanced DL subscription is $499 per year, not bad, but look at the return. For a lot of active trading and following Todd, you only beat the SPY by 4 percent, and after taxes that is even less.

Finally, the Quant, while not cheap, generated 178% compared to 33% fpr the SPY. Now that might be achievable if it were fully automatic, ie your money was traded according to the quant recommendations at the same time that Todd did the trades. But unfortunately Todd refuses to do any money management. That baffles me, as I would be happy to pay more for him to trade my money . However also with that comes fiduciary responsibility, and ultimately responsibility for real rates of return. When you do a newsletter, the published returns are theoretical, precisely because a subscriber is going to read the recommendations minutes to hours later than when Todd acted, so how in the world could you compare.

The other reviews are correct, ie Todd really is not subscriber friendly. There is a peculiar anger at any questioning or criticism. I don’t understand it, and that is one reason why I did not renew. It would seem that if Todd and his employees are generating these returns, why do they need subscribers? I wish I could be a happy subscriber, but I just don’t think you can work with these people.

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throwingbricks
throwingbricks
November 27, 2021 11:42 am

RIP DividendLab. U no longer exist.

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