Motley Fool Moonshot blast off 2020I think what I hate most about subscribing to any Motley Fool newsletters is the bombardment of ads for more newsletters. Today’s ad was for the Blast Off 2020 letters for $1499 or some other version of it for $1999. Whenever I’ve tried other newsletters, I’ve ended up disappointed and really only like 2, Advisor and Options. Has anyone tried any of their Blast Off newsletters? If yes, any comments?
Thanks,
Joe
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I’m with you on Motley Advisor and Options. I paid for Global that was also of value as it selected companies outside of the US. Half of those were in Canada or South America and already promoted in other news letters. Half were new and of value. I hesitate on letters like blastoff because the overlap should be closer to 100% of other news letters. At least I feel they should be showing me those best stocks already in the letters I get.
I AGREE. TRAVIS CAN TELL YOU WHICH STOCKS THEY ARE TEASING IN THESE NEWS LETTERS……………….
I’m not familiar with Options? I do have Advisor and Rule Breakers. What’s the low down on Options?
Anyone have any info on Rob Booker and his Monday Morning Payday. Sounds like hype.
Not sure if this is the place to reply to this, but Travis will decide…
I’ve been researching Rob Booker myself as I was interested in learning to trade hedged currency pairs using ETFs and his “16hours Jump trades” caught my eye. What I’ve discovered can be found on forex boards (valforex babypips etc.) since he has predominantly been a FX trader. Booker in the past has positioned himself as a FX trader & trainer but has more recently moved into option selling (Monday Morning Payday) and of course, the “16hours Jump trades” with Roger Scott.
He can’t be classed as a scammer for the money he makes for his FX training, however doesn’t seem to be that great at it (need to take that with a pinch of salt because a lot of people looking for quick fixes just don’t do the work to be traders). It has been reported that a lot of his strategies are older ones which are considered to be outdated or irrelevant now, however again, whether something works or not for a particular trader can have many variables and how dedicated that person is to becoming a trader.
He has become a CTA so his trading record is public record, however it actually doesn’t make for a great story. He seems to be an average at best trader. A number of his past students have been critical that his personal trading style does not reflect, even ignores, much of what he teaches.
Lately he’s moved into selling subscriptions for services which he couldn’t be really called an expert (ie. options selling). I watched the MMP video and his “i’ll be your best friend” approach was slick especially with handing out money for each trade (as if the profit was already banked from selling the option) but it is patently misleading in two ways.
a. he not once discussed the necessary requirement of a decent-sized account to be able to sell options on stocks.
b. not all option are going to expire worthless, and there is an inherent risk associated with it which often requires a hedge to even changes to the hedge and the profit may be greatly reduced. There are better and cheaper option selling courses/mentors out there than this.
In checking his public FB page, it is full of newbies, and he obviously keeps tight control over what remains published on it. And for a person who purports to become friends with his clients, he is uncontactable via any of this websites (which are half-hearted affairs with key pages not even containing info on them). When I did find an email address that worked, it took almost a week for someone to respond to a request for historical trading info related to the 16hour jump trades and that so far has just been to point me towards another person in his organisation.
The most telling aspect though was that a few people who have previously bought some of his expensive services report that the service they purchased ultimately did not see any decent returns and was ditched by him for new services, and alarmingly a common complaint was that he didn’t deliver the alerts or ongoing updates related to those services, and that the chat rooms were closed. There’s even suggestions that he may not have been paper trading the things he recommended.
So while I wouldn’t call him a scammer for his training, I wouldn’t call him a worthy person to use – there are plenty of real forex / options trainers out there who will teach you much more for far less.
But from what I’ve seen for the subscription services he is touting, I’d say yes he very likely is a scammer because what he was promising isn’t what he is delivering or can even be delivered, and he doesn’t declare the basic requirements of the service. As such I highly doubt that he has any trade history of note for the 16hour Jump trades – I will wait and see what he returns me. Roger Scot’s services seem to have a similar reputation.
Hope that helps. I’d be interested in other people’s views or experiences.
Blast Off 2019 has been a huge winner for me, and I just subscribed to Blast Off 2020. I agree that they bombard you with emails, but I just delete what I’m not interested in. Also think Stock Advisor is great.
I had some kind of package deal which included most services but I now only want the Blast Off 2019 & 2020 (even though some of the stocks overlap) and I’ll renew Stock Advisor and let the rest go.
Thanks K.
I just read that the S&P 500 went up 28% in 2019. So for Blast Off 2019 to have been of value, it would have had to return more than 28% for the year. I subscribe to a few N/L’s and all disappointed by not beating the market in 2019. Are you saying Blast Off 2019 really did?
Joe
I bought stock advisor, augmented reality, and AI. Is 20% profit in 2.5 months decent?
I’m pleased, MF has paid itself off, I learned a great deal about investing and why. But I’m also disappointed, they do a great job at telling “The Story” behind the company and why it’s a long term investment and to invest now knowing that despite the ups and downs, the stock choices will beat the market and have huge upside potential. They cite previous picks like Amazon, Netflix, and Alphabet 10x! But for a new investor like myself, I literally cannot stomach the thought of buying in blindly and camping for 3-5 years. Especially when after reviewing many of their “Best Buy’s now” they have some terrible timing. Others, which they say are great investments but don’t say “buy it now” literally GAP up 30% and it bothers me because I’m not adding to my position, I’m literally allocating from scratch. They say I should have some of the big market cap stocks to be majority of my allocation but again, the timing is so sketchy for me seeing how extended everything is. I’ve had Apple stock for several years. That’s a winner I chose blindly.
To date since November 2019-Jan20 I’ve literally had 20% net gain on the stocks I chose to invest in from Motley Fool services, but if I had timed the market with more strategy I could have performed at 40%. Motley fool service is, in my opinion, for average wealthy new investors who want to plop down cash and forget about it for 3-5 years. I’m way too concerned and prefer to snipe and gamble with my money precisely, rather less barbaric by purchasing everything in sight. I’ve ended up investing subscription into IBD leaderboard to get into leading stocks at or near buy points. I thought I bought in at a good time on my own research and due diligence, but I missed a few things, of course, cause I’m new!
Many of my MF stocks are also leaders on IBD leaderboard but I prefer knowing when is a good time to harvest profits, vs add to positions. I guess I’m inexperienced, impatient, naive, but I’m also a gamer and a gambler, so swing trading appears to be my style currently. Any advice of refunds for motley fool? Cheers
I think the reality of many long-term stock picking services is that a site like this is a better investment. Mainly, you’re after good stock that may not be on your radar to buy and hold then Travis and the Stock Gumshoe community uncover what is being spruiked, and discuss it intelligently. Save you a lot of money and still get similar results – the only thing you aren’t getting is advice on when to enter a specific stock (though people weigh into that), but frankly that’s the hard part. In life, timing is everything. And that’s the part that you will pay a lot of money for with people who actually do have a good track record – or you can put in the work to learn it like the rest, or join a trading service which trains you.
Hi K, I am a member with fool, I have a couple questions regarding to the blast off 2020 subscription, can you please get back to me at email star128126@gmail.com. Thanks J
Hey k Gibson I’m a member of motley’s stock advisor rule breakers and moneymakers which was over 2000 dollars.. I did hear the microcap presentation and was intrigued but couldn’t pull the trigger after already purchasing moneymakers. Would love to hear your thoughts on the portfolios (moneymakers actually has 3 separate ones dividends long short and moneymakers all very well set up very detailed and different levels based on can highest percentages of doubling the market) knsl which they gave in the presentation actually overlaps.. wonder if many overlap although it’s supposed to be different
I have been a subscriber to the basic Advisor and the Rule Breakers for at least 5 years. Rule Breakers has done really well for me. Got into both Shopify and Align in 2016, for example. So I’m happy. Certainly those two alone have paid for my subscription a number of times over, and I have picked a lot more winners than losers when going with their recommendations. That being said, it is a bit much how often they hit you for the new newsletter to subscribe to.
For example I was asked to join “Supernova” for $1,600, I think it was. When I didn’t subscribe I got the opportunity to join for just 6 months for $900. I went with that, got a few good recommendations (ROKU, ODFL) , but overall it wasn’t beating the market, so I didn’t renew. Couldn’t get past the idea that if Supernova was going to give me the “best of the best”, wasn’t I already getting the “best” with Rule Breakers or Stock Advisor?
Yep they are pitching too many ”new” newsletters, appears to have lots of crossover or duplications. . I stick with the basic ”Stock Advisor”which has served me and many others well.
So did we work put what was the moon shot?
Doesn’t seem like it..
Any more info on moonshot ?
I’m new to Motley Fool. I’ve subscribed to Rule Breakers and Stock Advisor and already purchase a lot of stocks. I’m extremely happy with the service and was ready to purchase Blast Off 2020 until I heard the price. Yikes!
I watched the presentation and was curious what stocks they could be recommending. In my opinion two of the stocks on the list are YEXT and RUBI. Why? Well neither of these stocks show that they are being recommended by MF’s services. But if you read the related articles on the MF site you’ll see that MF recommends both stocks in their disclosure. And these are two small cap tech stocks that seem to fit the bill for Blast Off 2020. Anyway, I like the prospects of both and have purchased. Has anyone else found any good small caps using the MF site?
Hey they lowered the price to 1000 for 6 months if that helps you.
They always do a “half-price” pitch, for half the time, for those who didn’t fall for the whole 1-year package, the next day after the “closing deadline”.
This is really just a guess based on research of small cap stocks I would not be surprised if irbt is one of them as well as hcat and lpsn but again this is just a guess
Thanks, I actually came across irbt myself and giving it a pass, though MF really likes this one. I would think their recommendations for Blast Off would not be in other services, but who knows. It does seem like a lot of hocus pocus.
I like hcat. Thanks. Adding to my watch list.
And I know that knsl is in another portfolio as well and they said it’s in blastoff so definitely some overlap
Oh wow. Yeah I have a little knsl, too. Another I like is lvgo. Technically a midcap but small enough that I could see it growing and doubling in value several times.
I would also assume sfix is one of their big small caps
I have a little sfix. It’s actually both a stock advisor and rulebreaker pick. I’d be a little disappointed if their blast off stocks come from their list of already-recommended stocks, but you could be right. But interesting company for sure and can’t imagine they don’t do well and carve out a niche for themselves in the market.
Ya they recommend sfix a lot. They’re very high on it
I watched the promotional video for Blast Off 2019 and they gave bunch of free stock picks from that service and every single one of them was already a pick from SA and RB. SFIX was one of the freebies.
Note that I’m talking about Blast Off 2019 not 2020.
If Yext and RUBI r part of it why wouldn’t it come up as recommended by a service?
My assumption would be that the best stocks wouldn’t show up as recommended to give those paying the money the feeling that they’re getting special information.
My two cents…
Only members can see the recommended by a service part. I too am a member and it indeed says it’s not recommended by any MF services. Yet in articles written for YEXT the disclaimer at the bottom says it’s recommended by MF. Strange.
what is the MF site sorry new to all this
Motley Fool = MF
When I signed up for The Motley Fool, it didn’t take me long to realize that the only fool was me for giving them my money. I thought I was by signing up for their service I was paying them for their stock advice. It turned out that all I got for my money was daily emails offering to sell me more newsletters.
You paid for pick advice and all you got for your money was more sales pitches? I assume they did that after you turned off the option of receiving emails from them, yes? Wow. No stock picks, just ads. Double whammy.
What if we reunite the amount of money to purchase the Service, share and review in the next 6 months?
I have Stock advisors and Rule Breakers and until now i am hoping I can get more than 10% in the next 3 months with my current stoks.
Just my opinion.
I’m surprised that there aren’t more leaks of the picks from their services
The stock they mentioned at the end of yesterday’s sales pitch was ZYNGA (ZNGA). Their market cap is around 10b. Now if this is about finding moonshots that could be 10 baggers or more, i dont know that i see a cell phone game company going to a market cap of 100b any time soon. Netflix has a market cap of around 217b so Zynga would need to go on a real tear to get anywhere close to a 10 bagger let alone 20x.
Maybe next time we’re up for renewal of another letter like SA and/or RB, we start saying we are reconsidering renewal since according to ads from Blast Off, the other letters are not giving us MF ‘s best advice. Perhaps a N/L that only puts out one N/L does a better job or letters that defines how each letter is different like high risk, low risk, dividend focus, etc. I also subscribe to MF Options which makes it clearly different from the others. I also subscribe to other letters like Nate’s Notes and Linde Equity, besides dropping a few over the years. Its difficult to really figure out which are the best, since you’ll usually have a few big winners and lots of mediocre or worse, big losers. They can vary a lot depending on the time frame. The easy ones to judge have mostly big losers.
I’ve been a subscriber of their service – Stock Advisor & Rules Breaker and so far, my portfolio is 32.77% since December 2019, not including other profits I’ve made so far. Their emails and pitches can be annoying, but I do love their transparency and simple-to-read analysis! Pick companies out of their recommendation that aligns with your belief, and 3-5 years actually pretty much will give you a good return, just judging on the portfolio’s performance…
I bought Motley’s Cloud Disruptors & Rising Stars in 2020 but they weren’t cheap however they have performed very well. Was interested in “Blast Off” 2020 but I’ve been putting too much cash to their Premium services lately and need to take a break. I am very curious to know their picks though (oh well) Other than Zynga, I’m in the dark on this one.
I bought Next generation supercycle 2020 and so far its only 26% up from June .
Just thought I’d follow up on this post.
I’m not sure what stocks were included in Blast Off 2020, but I bought RUBI (which is now MGNI after completing their merge with Telaria) and I’m loving the stock. It jumped following the company’s first (positive) earnings report after their name-change and I think this company has some legs.
Another company I really like is YEXT. I don’t think the company will explode, but now that they’re expanding outside of the US I see this company providing strong returns for the next 5 years.
I have Advisor and Rule Breakers from MF, as well as this site. I also use the research function on Fidelity daily. I figure spending a couple of hundred dollars a year is enough to keep up with all the information I need. I’m not too inclined to spend $2K on a MF product, that is what I’m supposed to be using the other services for.
don’t waste your money. I am a subscriber to Motley Fool Stock advisor and I have been reading their posts for many years. Last week I subscribed to their hyped Blast Off 2021, to my surprise !!! none of the stock they recommended in their recommendation is new, same old stuff. I felt fooled by Motley Fool. Regards.
Stock advisor is above average subscription service. I wouldnt pay more than $100 on any motley services.
which one’s repeated ? I am subscriber as well and don’t think they repeated it.
I have been following SA for a while and recently subscribed to Blastoff 2o21 too bkz the offer said:
“David Gardner is finally BACK and inviting you to follow along – trade for trade – as he builds a BRAND-NEW portfolio for “maximum upside” in 2021 and beyond.”
This pretty clearly states that David Gardner is himself running this service and that it is what MF calls a “portfolio service” meaning you see what David Gardner is investing in and told when to buy/sell based on his trades. This does not seem to be the case. It appears that two “young” advisers pull stocks from David Garner’s list of stocks based on what they feel best represents his investing philosophy. They may be great advisors…who knows…but I feel kind of duped as this is not what the offer presented. It’s nothing personal against these advisors, I just don’t know them. I am debating whether to stay, change to some other service per their guarantee or see if I can get my money back because they really did falsely present their service (I know they say upfront in offer not possible). Disappointed and concerned.