Review by tnvolfan, May 16, 2009

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I have only invested in this crazy market less than a year. I
got in at the worse possible time last may or june, just in time for well u know the rest of that story. I have only subscribed to the famous gumshoe (which by the way is awesome and full of information) and just recently 1st of May subscribed to The Street Authority’s Stock of the month by Amy Calistri’s. I know its very early but right now I’m very impressed with Amy’s pix and articles and also results of the 1st 6 pix. I paid 59.99 for 1 year and like the simple approach she uses.

She gives all her customers the next stock she will be purchasing and then she doesnt buy for 2 or 3 days later, so you can actually have a better price than hers or not if it falls. This is a 50,000.00 portfolio for those that have that much money LOL–so mines much less. The followinf is a list of her 1st 6 picks:

#1 70 shares of DEO my price 45.65 now 52.35 she recommends buy under 58 target-stop/loss 82.00

#2 400 shares of IAF my price 7.03 now 8.10—buy under 9.50
target stop/ loss 14.00

#3 200 shares of PIO my price 11.91 now 13.65—buy under 16.00—target stop/ loss 22.00

#4 90 shares of CPSI my price 33.58 now 32.67–buy under 38.00—target stop/loss 47.00

#5 150 shares of VOD my price 18.50 now 18.47—this was released this week and she has not updated the buy under or the –target stop/loss price.

That is up to date and if anyone is interested I will be glad to up date each month when I get her Stock of the month pick.

Review by ic, May 28, 2009

A couple of weeks ago the subscription price was $49.99/year. Apparently as the market advances, the subscription price advances too. Currently it’s $19.95/quarter. If the newsletter were a stock, it has a 63% gain. This is not to disparage Amy, just an observation. Other newsletters, worthwhile or no, cost more.

Review by tnvolfan, May 29, 2009

Amy Calistri–Street Authoriy
June Stck of the Month is
OLN–she reccomends 220 shares
and to buy under 14.00. When
she released stock price was
12.58–closed today 5-29 @ 13.36
Pays .20 per share div. and a
yield of 6.4%.

Review by Stock Newbie, May 31, 2009

Hey tnvolfan, thanks so much for your posts! I am also interested in this one, please continue to keep us updated. I read about this one elsewhere and figured I would search to see if was listed on the ole Gumshoe, and hey! Gotta’ love it! Thanks to you too, Shoe! Where would we be without you? Spending our money just to find-out that a service was no good!

Review by bumbleb572, May 31, 2009

thanks tnvolfan i decided to sign up.So far Amy is doing well but its early; however, i like her explanations on her selections.

Review by Stock Newbie, June 1, 2009

Been looking over these stocks and their
charts so far:

DEO-Summer party play. Noticed all the prices on alcohol have been going-up lately, but that could be due to taxes. Stock had a recent reversal of fortune, 10-day currently crossing above the 20-day. 50-day will be the next overhead resistance level to watch.

IAF-Australian closed-end fund. Aussie currency has been having a field day recently. 10-day crossed above the 20-day and the stock took-off when the price crossed over the 50-day. It IS over the recommended buy level, but I wouldn’t have any problem purchasing this one here.

PIO-Hmm, global water play. I’ve heard this theme before, the “new oil”. Price is currently trying to break-out above the 50-day, it may pull-back a little if it doesn’t make it on the first try. If it does clear the 50-day, watch for this one to take-off like IAF did.

CPSI-Healthcare information services, hospitals will need to streamline as much as possible in this economy, and tech always recovers first in a recession. This is probably the strongest chart of the bunch. CPSI is already above all four moving averages, which will provide some strong support as bullishness increases in the recovering market. A little overextended, recently pulled-back. Watch for the 10-day to “snap-back” some and then it should be a safe long-term play.

VOD-’Nuther Aussie pick, cell phone play, common theme lately. All the cell companies have been hitting higher highs, look at PALM. This one looks like it has pulled-back and as the 10-day crosses the 20-day here, it should be headed higher. The 2 moving averages together should provide strong support. The 50-day will be the resistance to watch. If it breaks above the 50, it could run a while.

OLN-Olin is a great company, I’ve owned this one before. Had to let it go when it broke through support a while back. I can see me owning it again, but not here. This would have to be the worst chart of the bunch. The price is below all the moving averages and they are all trending down. The 10- and 20-days are directly over the price and could form strong overhead resistance. I would probably wait until this one goes above that resistance to buy in. That’s just me, though. Amy Calistri could know something we don’t. She may have a catalyst. It also could be upgraded, current consensus is HOLD. If that is the case, it could rocket above these averages. Still, I would wait for the turn-around on this one.

Just my two cents…

Review by Jan, July 2, 2009

Hi :

Over the course of time I have subscribed to two of the newsletters listed on the right ( highest ranked 7 and 12 ).
I just renewed with #12 for 1/2 off the regular price . I just read these newsletters to see what they have to say . One of the stock picks from a prievious time mentioned in newsletter #12 I bought with money from my discount brokerage account I’ve made more than $100.00 on the stock . As I type this review the stock is up while the market slides . Also the stock is currently paying a dividend at 16% .

Review by Sandy, September 5, 2009

Hi,
I can’t even remember why I decided to order Amy’s first Stock of the Month newsletter - Maybe because she wrote about being a professional poker player in Texas, and I felt like gambling 5.00 bucks a month on her advice. Anyway, she earned my subscription fee just on her suggestion of PIO, the water ETF, up 37.6%. DEO is up 31%. She has a very intertaining writing style. Of her seven picks so far, only the August is down-3.3%. The other 6 doing very well.

As a small time, very non professional investor following Amy’s advice, I’d say I got lucky.

Review by 29a, September 8, 2009

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subscribed start of August 2009
Nice easy to read newsletter
The two picks i’ve received are Pagg which still hasn’t reached Its buy under recommendation and is down from entry with very low volume for an etf the other NGZ another etf is up half a buck but still under its buy under recommendation also low volume. She was doing well with her earlier picks but the market was going up, she hasn’t out performed the market but hasn’t lost money.
All her picks have been long on American exchanges so far.
To be fair its early day’s and i am waiting to see how she does once the market turns against her.
I will update this review then !

Review by Kim, September 8, 2009

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I joined the service at the beginning of June. I actually compare the performance of the stocks I bought to the S&P 500. Here are the numbers:

MRX - 18.3% compared to 15.6% S&P 500
OLN - 42.5% compared to 15.6% S&P 500
VOD - 22.8% compared to 15.6% S&P 500
PAGG - 0.9% compared to 2.9% S&P 500
NGZ - 5.4% compared to 1.4% S&P 500

This does not include 35.7% in DEO, 40% in PIO and 17% in CPSI (I was late to buy them) plus

Not bad at all I would say.

Of course more time needed to fully evaluate this service, but so far, excellent results.

Review by Laura, September 24, 2009

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So far so good. I subscribed right when she began the service. I set up a spreadsheet to track all the picks and “funded” it with the same $50,000 that Amy is investing. I’ve made every trade she recommends, exactly as she says, and so far I’m impressed.

As of the closing prices today my account is up to $55,821.44, including dividends (but not interest on the cash). From 5/15/09 to 9/24/09 that’s an annualized return of 32.19%. Only one pick (PAGG) is down slightly from the purchase price. All the others are showing gains in the hundreds of dollars.

The whole market has been on a tear these last few months, so it remains to be seen whether Amy is a really good stock-picker or just began the service at the right time. But I’m impressed enough to stick around to find out.

Review by cathyK, October 30, 2009

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I just recently started taking this newsletter. Before I did I tracked her picks since she started this in April. Boy I wish I had been onboard in April. Her DEO pick that she bought in on at either 43 or 45 dollars is now close to 66 dollars. Her IAF which she pruchased at approximately 7 dollars closed yesterday at $11.89. Her VOD that was purchased somewhere in the middle teens is now $22.99. I think the proof is in the pudding!! I went and invested in two of the stock she advise a first time invester to invest in which was VOD and FAX….both up yesterday. The only reason I did not invest in the thrid she suggested is that it has already gone up so much from the price she suggested to buy at. It appears to me Ami is brilliant!! You go Girl!!

Review by new investor in denver, November 16, 2009

I just love Amy’s hat. I started in July and very pleased with all her picks. So the is the street authority.

they have upped her real money portfolio from $50,000 to $100,000

I honestly cant wait to see what the stock of the month is.
It has been fun and rewarding.

Review by ERICH "Z", November 27, 2009

AMY IS OFFERING HER NEWSLETTER, TODAY ONLY, FOR FREE TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS. ALTHOUGH IN THE FIRST EMAIL AFTER SIGN-UP, THEY ARE TRYING TO SELL YOU A SUBSCRIPTION TO THE SERVICE ANYWAY!
LET’S SEE, HOW LONG “FREE” WILL LAST

Review by Jim, December 12, 2009

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I subscribed when the newsletter was announced. (I’m a sucker for newsletter pitches.) This is the best I’ve ever subscribed to. Consistent–100%–winners. Have never seen anything like it. To come up with her winners, Amy does good research, and then she adds a solid dosage of common sense. I’ll hold onto this one.

Review by Tanglewood, December 16, 2009

I don’t subscribe but I did have a question. It looks like Amy has sell targets. Does she adhere to them or are they flexible? I am not a big fan of sell targets. You might dump stocks that become more than 2 baggers.

Review by Bob, December 27, 2009

let us note that the market as a whole went up substantially from its March 2009 low. Any company which has low debt and generating cash flow has gone up. If I had bought at the market bottom in March, my portfolio would have shown significant gains. The issue is why have more investors not bought into the market? Basically , because the economy has shown no improvement and credit markets have continued to remain frozen. The performance of the real economy has been at odds with the stock market. Is this stock market rise sustainable? Or has the market gone ahead of itself ? The banking sector remains in a precarious situation. Banks have not recognized the losses on their books. And basically, SAVERS instead of the Government (tax payers) are now engaged in a second round of bailing out the banks. I would like the stock pickers to tell me where the market is heading and then pick stocks which will increase in either a down or up market. Any one can pick stocks in a rising market environment.

Review by sooner, January 7, 2010

How is Amy doing?

Review by Non-subscriber, January 16, 2010

I am not a subscriber. I noticed that this newsletter started
in March 2009 and it does not have even a single loser. Well,
anyone could have done stock picking from march 2009 till now
and might have seemed like a genius. What is Amy telling
right now ? Is she speculating a market crash or does she
think this market rally still has legs.

Review by sooner, January 24, 2010

These big down turns in the market will tell the tale on the stock of the month service

Review by lynne kushnir, February 7, 2010

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I have subscribed to Amy’s newsletter for about six weeks. It has to work, her theory makes so much sense. But so far every stock is going down and I am chalking it up to the market. PIO/85shares@$16.69 down6.8%,IAF/200shares@$10.24 down9.02%,SBH/50 shares@$7.97 down 7.21%, and ECH/9 shares $53.10 down 8.28%. I’ve lost $400. already. With the market falling like this I think I should have cut my losses last week and rebought these stocks when these stocks starta to pick up. Any suggestions?

Review by Lukester, February 21, 2010

I haven’t read anything of Amy Calistri’s so this is absolutely not a comment on her letter or advice. However I see a lot of people listing the very high batting average of her picks in 2009, and this brings me to my point - notice how many newsletters today are suddenly posting their “complete track records” for 2009, and they all look awesomely good?

I’ve noticed a huge number of stock advisors are now tripping all over themselves to offer detailed performance stats for last year, while in former years attempting to pry this formation out of them was like trying to pull a barnacle off a rock. There is a reason, and one should bear it carefully in mind with regard to ALL of their track records from last year - last spring saw the biggest stock market washout in 50 years, and the largest single snapback rally since THE 1930’s!

I subscribed last year to GANN GLOBAL, a very professional outfit geared more to commodity futures, and while I discontinued because I don’t have a burning passion for trading futures or even for trading much at all, I will vouch for the fact that they have one of the largest and most comprehensive historical databases of market stats, which they’ve personally built over 30 years.

These guys go **way back** to the late 1970’s as a commodities analyst service) and they stated categorically that the collapse of 2008/2009 was right in the short list among the largest stock declines in market history - particularly for compression in time (went down a lot in a lot less time than most others). I mention this only to illustrate that the snapback rally of 2009 was ferociously strong - a true “melt up” across the entire market.

So it bears noting to anyone here counting the long and stunning string of wins in ANY of the newsletters on this website needs to remember that they all rode the same “melt up” and by the same token, many, many of them will ride THE SAME very treacherous market in 2010 and going forward from here. Don’t mistake the “all assets up” recovery of 2009 for a true benchmark in any of the newsletters you follow!

That was just the broad indexes working off a tortuously oversold condition, and that just ain’t the same thing as stock picker brilliance folks.

Review by Bill, February 24, 2010

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This is one of my favorite newsletters. I like the stock-a-month approach, and I especially like her reasoning. She is very good at updating and making interim suggestions, and at ranking her own choices on a monthly basis.

I like newsletters that are clear and succinct, and I feel that the Stock-of-the-Month newsletter is a very smart and balanced set of picks. I am extremely satisfied.