Author/Editor
Louis Navellier
Publisher
InvestorPlace
Description
Large cap growth newsletter. Entry level letter from Navellier, who recommends a portfolio with monthly buys and sells based on his quantitative grades. Seems to have replaced what was called Navellier’s Blue Chip Growth.
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Understand this, all theses so called advisers do not advise for my success, but, for their success.
When an adviser is paid to select growth stocks, and supply data that delivers results, this should result in profit.
Problem with is service is it’s inability to select and advise for the client profit.
His propaganda showing his past performance is out dated, and uses dates at show more gains than the reality.
It is about time he stars to print the truth.
My advise to bail out of this service.
I am a member and have been for many years, and yet to gain overall profit using his method.
I’ve been an on/off (mostly on) subscriber for years and have had pretty poor results. Like others have said, there’s not much attention given to capital preservation. I mostly use the Portfolio Grader and make my own picks. Overall, I think I would’ve been better served and better off if I had just bought real estate, instead. The two market crashes I’ve lived through have proven that. (guess I’m a slow learner)
I have subscribed to many newsletters. Today I will write about Navallier’s Bluechip Growth newsletter. I had a 2 year subscription and let it lapse about 4 months ago. Quite frankly, when things in the market were looking good the recommendations performed admirably. But when things went south in the market so did Louie’s picks. You said he picks stocks that doubles or triples, then recommends it and man is that the truth. In going back over my portfolio of his recommendations and analyzing the stocks I bought very close to the tops. Ouch, but lesson learned. I hope someday these stocks might recover but I won’t ever subscribe to anything he has to tout.
I do like his free stock evaluator at his site getrichwithgrowth.com. There you can check on stocks that you may be considering adding to your portfolio and see what he thinks of them. So I did get that much out of him. Of course I read the little book of investing series where his was about investing in growth stocks. At the time I thought it good but now I’m more convinced that technical analysis has a one up on fundamental analysis. Both are important but Technical helps find the stock, fundamental can confirm whether to purchase it.
I will write more on some other newsletters I have subscribed to later. My advice regarding Bluechip Growth. Avoid.
I subscribed to the BCG for a year and the only things I experienced were losses from his Top 5 picks, no customer service and sickening repeated carrott emails telling you to buy an upgrade newsletter. All of the stocks I bought have never returned to his buy price including AAPL, BAX, UNP and ATVI. After numerous emails requesting removal from his email scams I had to contact the SEC and the FCC to finally get the trash emails to stop. Buyer beware! He is a loser!
I was captured by the good Louis Navellier marketing and decided to subscribe 1 Year for Blue Chip Growth – no comment on that just the 6000$ loss i had talk by itself – Very poor advice and worst of all no stop losses to protect
I assume Louis have good marketing and nicely enjoy subscriptions fees from its services 😉
Imagine what you could do if thousand follow anykind of advice but pay you nice $$$ subscriptions fee : maybe this is the real secret to be rich
Finally i decided not to renew my subscription and just built a myself system from info collected around – i could tell it works better than Louis and i had some gain
Maybe i have to build my own newsletter :)))
I just got the latest issue of the Hulbert newsletter and it confirms what other reviews say – BCG made less than 2% YTD, compared to 3% gain in S&P 500 and 16% gain in Nasdaq. In the kind of market that we saw since March 2009, his picks are supposed to shine. In 2008, according to Hulbert, BCG lost more than 50%. Despite those losses, he continues with his old mantra how resilient his picks are.
Stay away. There are much better options.
I took all of Navellier’s picks that appeared in his July 2009 newsletter and noted the date of the recommendation and the price paid and then posted this information in a electronic portfolio and sadly the portfolio was down 19% YTD.
As someone who has attended several of Navellier’s live newsletter promotions and periodically picked up some good investment ideas from past newsletters it has been my observation that when there is a Bull market Navellier’s picks do well but in the current market one needs to have their stop loss exits in place in case the Bears show up to party.
Navellier newsletters as a group reccommend to many stocks to buy and usually after they have already moved to higher prices. He never advises to sell, the stock just disappears from the next issue. Mostly a buy’em and hold’em no matter what the market is doing.letter based on his belief that they are the best stocks to own according to his analysts research.
Constantly trying to sign you up for all four newsletters. I guess he believes that if one is good four would be better for you.
I have been a subscriber twice. 2001 to 2004. Then from 2006 to present. I basically subscribe for access to his portfolio grader as another source to the other graders I have access to such as Schwab’s. His picks are interesting but I certainly don’t buy all of them. I may buy 20% of them. The ones I’ve bought have been pretty good. Others I haven’t bought did well in the bull markets before the economic downturn began, a few didn’t. In a bull market, his percentage of winners are pretty good. However in the last economic downturn (Spring 09), he totally mis-predicted as did many other stockmarket gurus. A crystal ball might have helped. And, like many others have noted here. Navelier’s not great at telling you when to sell. He is ever optimistic until things go beyond bad. During the whole plummet of ’09, he counseled to hang on. This is a typical conservative approach. History tells us that with a solid company what goes down over time tends to go back up, and it’s best not to react with the nervousness of the moment. Still… I will continue to subscribe because of the general validity of his Portfolio Grader. And, he does give out some interesting picks, which as with any of these newsletters from “market experts”, you have to see through your own filter and what makes sense to your investing goals and risk level. Overall, I think Blue Chip Growth is a good value for your subscription cost, especially if you pick it up on one of his half off deals.
Unless I am mistaken, you do not need a paid subscription to use Portfolio Grader (PG). I think you only need to do a free registration. A word of warning about PG ratings: C-rated stocks routinely go thru the roof, and A-rated stocks regularly tank. I have lost a lot of money investing in A-rated stocks such as (recently) RINO and STEC. As others have said, Louis is IMO a crazed optimist–follow his advice at your peril.
Over the last 5 years I have subscribed twice. I agree with the other comments regarding satisfactory performance in bull markets and very poor performance in bear markets. I too was initially convinced to subscribe after reading the marketing propaganda backed up by the Hulbert ratings. I don’t intend to subscribe again – I’ve done much better just buying Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares and letting Warren Buffet advise me. I think he’s been more successful than Louis, to say the least.
I have been a subscriber for a few years now. Blue Chip Growth is one of six or seven newsletters I subscribe too. I do not buy based on just one recommendation from one publication but comparing what all of them are recommending. I enjoy reading Navellier’s philosophy but have found his Portfolio Grader lacking because I don’t know what he is basing his “proprietary” grade on certain stocks which seems to be the only grade determining his rating on a stock. I have found that the stocks I own he rates in the C-F range have made more money than the ones he rates A or B. I have written to him about this but haven’t received a reply…
I was a subscriber to Navellier’s for many years. I like to think I have moved beyond what he has to offer. He recommends what’s hot and moving up, both in price and earnings. He can do very good in a rising market, but then who doesn’t? The crux of the matter is, he has no defense and no market timing. He has one mantra, “buy these hot stocks now”, because they have strong earnings. However it gets old when his “strong stocks” roll over and die. But fear not. he has plenty more to recommend, and does. His portfolio grader, which grades the best stocks, or “cream de la cream” is an absolute false exercise in confidence. He always reminds you when his recommendations work, conveniently forgets when they don’t. He did well in the 90’s because he had an up market, however he hasn’t fared well in the aughts, because it has not been a buy a hold market. There are better newsletters out there. My recommendation is find one and use it. I can’t recommend Blue Chip growth to anyone.
This is the 3rd time I’ve subscribed to the Blue Chip Growth Newsletter. All 3 times I spread my investments over his top 5 stocks. Stocks go down; his conviction on buy remains. The stock drops -25% and even changes on his portfolio grader… no comment. It amazes me; it’s his top 5 stocks, why the would you not comment on major changes. When the Earning calls occurs he summarizes the call, makes no analysis, or even recommendation of any sort. We pay for advice not for summary of earning calls. I will not get this newsletter again.
I’ve been a subscriber for about 7 years to BCG. A number of the recommendations have been very profitable for me. The most I made was about 400% over 3 years. I’ve also started quite a few losing positions and stopped out. Like other reviewers, I always look to several sources and the overall chart pattern before buying any of the recommendations. I also have an exit plan for selling if the stock starts to tank.
Overall, it’s an interesting newsletter for novice investors, but you can get pretty much BCG offers and much more by subscribing to IBD or a similar publication. His picks are typically in the IBD 50.
My one big complaint: Navellier’s perennial optimism! During the crash of 2008-2009, he kept saying to buy, buy, buy. Had I gone to cash instead of listening to him and staying in the market, I’d be WAY ahead. It would be nice if his outlook were a little more balanced. Live and learn => gather advice, but decide for yourself.
I subscribed to Navellier’s Emerging Growth Newsletter during the financial crisis in 2008. I lost so much money trading in and out of his recommendations half of my 401k plan disappeared. Instead of telling people to be cautious and keep money on the sidelines for a while, he kept pushing his stocks and telling people they would regret it if they sold. Well, at that time I had no clue where the bottom was and felt I had to sell.
Big mistake buying this newsletter. I know better now, but I’ll never recoup those losses.
I have been a subscriber for about 3 years and find Navellier’s picks and advice very accurate and profitable. While I don’t drink every ounce of the Kool Aid his recommendations are a valued starting point for my own due diligence. I particularly like his portfolio construction between conservative stocks 60%, moderately aggressive stocks 30%, and agressive/volatile 10% as a good balance for a retiree’s portfolio. The free Porfolio Grader is one source I use along with IBD and others to rate new purchases. All-in-all Blue Chip Growth is probably the best value of all newsletters!
I have subscribed to BCG for 4 years and don’t plan to renew my subscription when it expires. His recommendations, when assessed over the following six to 12-month period are below par. For sure, he holds on to losers far too long and his winning picks viz-a-viz the S&P500 are around 50%.
Louie has great charisma and is a very congenial fella which must explain why I have subscribed to his subscriptions. At one point I had them all coming to my house and it was not cheap!
My problem was that he did not say to sell but the next newsletter would be absent the stock so you knew too late.
Also he manages money for some large clients and his funds therefore he tends to care for their interest first.
In fact, I believe that his staff is really managing and making the calls probably with his agreement so he is able to go on the road as salesman-in-chief.
He deserves credit for being the only discretionary manager (that I know of) that offers a form of no profit then no management fee on a date certain.
I haven’t subscribed, but I got a teaser from Navellier today about 25 stocks he claims will double in 2017. He mentioned two: Cognex (CGNX) and Installed Business Products (IBP). Gives them both an A rating. To learn the others, you have to buy his newsletter, which I did not. Anyone else find these two worth a further look?