Review by Andrew Garden, October 21, 2009

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I always wanted to understand how to trade using technical information and charts - but could never really figure it out until SmarTrend. This relatively new service has a bunch of offerings, from the free Morning Call newsletter (which is what I started with) to news items and analysis all day - to their top-of-the-line product: SmarTrend Alerts. ALL the services give you instant access to understandable trading information in simple language - with LOTS of explanation. Maybe the best part: THEY read and interpret hundreds of factors and charts FOR YOU - and then issue UPtrends and DOWNtrends. I just changed from a monthly to an annual subscription since I’ve already made back the whole amount!

Review by Casey, October 21, 2009

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The service is great and has helped me better understand the markets (thanks to the Morning Call) and has allowed me to understand how to trade without confusing language/analysis. I recommend this service to anyone. Customer service is also great, they really know what they are talking about.

Review by Truth1234, November 12, 2009

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Here’s what I think about the two previous reports…BULL CRAP. Next time you try to Up sell your product don’t use form responses that characterize the same pattern of quotations and descriptive benefits.

From your friend at Be Smarter.

Review by John, November 19, 2009

I find this to be the best yet of the stock services. I use stocks from IBD, which is great for fundamentals, then use Smartrend to actually chose and follow them. I have a MBA and can pretty well evaluate the many services and I feel this one is the best I have tried in the past three years.

Review by Gary, January 14, 2010

I’d really like to know about Smart Trend and how accurate and helpful it is. But like a previous reviewer says, the first two reviews, and even the fourth, sound more like advertisements. How about an objective review by someone who knows the site?

Review by Tim, February 8, 2010

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I have been using smartrend since March of 2009, and I am not pleased with the service. In fact I have lost around $4,000 using the service. I started out investing $6,000 and within the first 2 weeks of using the service I had profited $2,000. Out of the 5 stocks that I had in my portfolio at the time, only 2 of them actually gained. I do not understand the stock market and I was mainly using the smartrend service to decide what stocks to buy (this was a mistake). The only lesson that I learned from smartrend is that if the stock doesn’t gain within the first month, it probably won’t gain for a few months (which is stressful when you are paying $100 per month for the service). My problem is that I wasn’t patient enough to use smartrend because I noticed that if I had waited to sell some of the stocks that I had in my portfolio I would have made money instead of losing on some of them. But again like I said that is tough to do when you are paying $100 per month for the service and it seems that every stock is rising in value except the ones that you own. I must admit though that when smartrend calls a downtrend on a stock, you should sell it quickly because it will probably drop like a rock.

I am going to give smartrend another month or two but I will probably drop the service in the near future.