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I looked at the site and it really looks good – especially for the cost involved. Anyway, to any current members – do they tell you when to sell. The one “sample stock alert” they had said “we expect this stock to see 145% increase over 2-4 months”. (Or words to that effect.) Some of the picks are or were in very LONG term uptrends (months). Is there an exit point or do you just use trailing stops as you see fit once the first target is hit? Thanks. Martin.
PS. “heresjohnny” (gotta love that one) said this was his favorite of four newsletters. Johnny – are the others worth mentioning? Appreciate it.
Dear mfortier:
Thanks for your comment!
I think you may have slightly misread the sample report. In our conclusion, we originally stated ”
We feel that IDN could post 25-50% gains in the short-term (2-4 weeks) and as much as 75-100% gains in 2-4 months. ”
However, that stock (IDN) did rise 145% in total. That may have been the mix-up there.
As for exit prices, we do post short and long-term price targets, but do not give a sell alert or anything like that. It’s usually a good idea to avoid services that do that type of thing. It gives control over to the website owner and allows them to profit over their readers. (We do not own shares that we pick, so we are 100% unbiased.) It’s how many ‘free’ sites make many times more money than we could ever hope to. We do recommend readers use a stop (especially a trailing stop if possible) at around 15-20% below their purchase price.
While everyone is different, we did a survey and found that if readers sold after gains if 35-50% then moved on to another, they would make the most profits over time. We do have readers that like to hang on for 50-80% or more, but the fastest and most profits are made when folks sell after just 35-50% and move to another as those gains usually come much faster.
The reason for that is simple… in most cases, after a small stock rises 35-50% rather quickly, it will almost always pause and possibly pullback a bit before finding more support and moving higher again. This can take a while and over time, selling at that point and then moving on to another stock will usually provide more profits over the same time-frame. As we mention, we believe that all of our picks can double (or come close to a double) so many of our readers do hang on for those larger gains.
A few weeks ago, we picked NBEV at $2.28. In this case, hanging on worked as it’s now trading over $8 and closed up 80% for the day yesterday (Sept. 20) and looks to open higher this morning (Sept 21) after trading over $10 in after-hours.
I hope this helps!
Pretty impressed with these folks. I’ve subscribed to quite a few other newsletters from Motley Fool to a dozen others but always come back to them. From what I can tell, they’re a family that runs the whole show.
Great write-ups on real companies, no shells. They seem to like either fast growth small stocks or turnaround stories that investors seem to be missing. They usually find stocks where they know a bit more than anyone else (maybe from their pro/institutional trader buddies they mention as they used to trade on the NYSE) or know that “something” is coming up soon nut cannot mention. Hah!
In short, nice folks writing about good but small companies that are missed by the ‘street’ currently but who are starting to make waves.
They’re always good with advice or with explanations on how things really work and suggestions on trading (they emailed me back and forth with suggestions and ideas even though I wasn’t a subscriber at the time). They seem to just like talking about it.
I am real happy with this newsletter. I signed up about a month ago, I had issues logging in and Shane sent me an email fixing my problems. I have had some great gains so far. What I most like about the newsletter is that it actually tells you quite a bit about the company, it is not just an alert. I have subscribed to other newsletters in the past and the only one to come close to the research is the Bowser Report, however Falcon stocks are usually traded by all brokers and from my track record are better picks.
An interesting note is I started this subscription on the same day as Superman’s Picks and I kept this newsletter and no longer subscribe to Superman’s, partly due to his price and he seldom sold me on his picks. I did have some great picks with Superman but as he says, “not all are winners.” Falcon Stocks seems to have a better percentage of winners and is less technical for a newbie like me.
Shane is a man of deep integrity. And truth be told will find you some rising stars. Now some of them may take hours to take off and some of them may take months. If you’re a patient investor looking to land on the moon every now and again, this is for you. I haven’t received any special benefit for this commentary nor do I have any relationship with Shane or his family or his business.
Josepe
Happy to see a review of Falcon Stocks on here. I have been a member for about 6 years now and, though I haven’t followed every pick, the results have been substantial. I fully trust Shane and his analysis on the stock picks he chooses.
I really enjoy their website. Their research reports are top-notch and their stock ideas are just plain excellent. They post their latest winners on their front page, so do check them out. They’re a family-run place and this is all they do, so they don’t try and sell you anything else.
I’ve been with them since early in the year and took a flyer on 6 of their stocks since then. All were up and 4 of those doubled or more. One of them, AEHR flew from about $2 to over $20. I got out at a double at $5+ when it first popped… wish I held, but a double is a double! That only took a month, so I’m extremely happy.
I’m a small retail investor and these folks really lay out a nice report and explain why they like it and what they believe the stock price will do. Try them out, I think you’ll be impressed.
I found Falconstocks by accident and joined up, I applied very strict parameters to any investment both in terms of size and amount of draw down, 15%. Whilst Smallcaps are of course volatile and each to their own style, I was stopped on on the 5 stocks I went in to. This was in April, May.
Today I decided to revisit to see if any new opportunities exist and found, the stocks I’d been in are now down 70 to 80% yet no mention of this drawdown but on the few that have done well there’s are big banner. The losses on the stocks were small ( due to my own management !) but I think this promoter is very disingenuous because they don’t high light the losses from the “buy” date but do high light the profits on the picks.
I think they got lucky in a rising market because if they were trying to earn a living on these stocks, the family wouldn’t eat much
Before anyone tells me the obvious, I’m well aware of our own responsibilities but if a vendor takes ones money, they should at least be held to account for performance.