Author/Editor
Sol Palha
Publisher
Tactical Investor
Description
Makes market predictions based on mass psychology and technical analysis. Mass psychology is used to determine the emotion driving the markets and technical analysis issues fine tune the entry points into stocks, currencies, options, etc.
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So far, so good. Paid 470 for the 1 year subscription and I have already banked 7K in profits, I would say that’s a fantastic deal
Good option plays. Would love them to issue more, but when they do, over 80% of them work out. On Just the option plays, I have banked over 400% in gains.
The Bonus ETF trend trader service is excellent. So far the win ratio is 90%, talk about starting off with a bang
If you were looking for good service and good analysis, you search ends here. Unless something changes dramatically i won’t be subscribing to another financial newsletter.
After reading all the good reports on about this site about the tactical investor, I went and took a look. What I saw was a lot of ultra-right wing comments and the investing advice “the trend is your friend”. I didn’t stay very long as I am not interested in right-wing political advice.
Hi Mary
I noticed that too but I decided to look a bit deeper and looked at some of their investment articles published on 3rd party sites such as marketoracle, safehaven, etc and the investment advice while different (contrarian) was quite accurate.
For example, their call that Gold would top in 2011 and that the Dollar would experience a very strong bull market. Furthermore they made a very tough call when they went to state that a Trump win would be good for the financial markets.
I then reached out to them about the Alt-right articles that were not directly related to investing. They informed me that they post articles by other authors and from other sites. And the reason for this is the trend is in favour of the Alt -Right now and this started late in 2015. They went to further elaborate that these articles get 4X more views than any other articles on their site. This provides them with data on what sectors will make for a good investment and what to expect from the market going forward.
Sol Palha who is the Head Analyst almost exclusivesly focuses on the finanical markets and covers other topics (not Alt-right) that generally make for an interesting read .
So I agree with your intial assessment but after digging deepr I can understand as to why they are monitoring the Alt right situation. After all they are trend players and while I don’t like this new trend, I have to admit it is gathering tracting in the US and in Europe.
I decided to subscribe to their free newsletter. The last newsletter covered the dollar and did not have any Alt right material in it. If things change I will post another message here.
I thought people here were over exaggerating the customer service aspect of this company, but after joining and asking for roughly ten questions, three of which were rather silly in retrospect, not only were all of them answered politely but they always provided detailed answers. I would have give their customer service ten stars if i could
Other aspects of the service that I liked
They did not try to force you to stay and they made the cancellation process incredibly easy. I went through the process but did not complete the last step which was to confirm my cancellation. I just wanted to see if the process was easy; all in all it would take less than three minutes to cancel and you can do on your own.
Very friendly and always willing to the extra mile
In terms of the actual service
They have a very disciplined approach when it comes to trading so you need to be willing to change the way you think. I found their approach to very enlightening
I just joined three months ago and two of the five positions I opened are showing gains in excess of 35 and 55% I closed out one position, the stock was CRON. It was recommended at 6.00 and in less than four weeks I sold it for 12.00
One position is down 10% but it’s starting to turn around and from the charts i see it should start moving higher shortly.
One is at a breakeven and the last one is up 15%
As I am position trader this trading service is perfect and satisfies all my needs. I have been looking for a service like this for years; a service that focuses on the trend and not the noise. Their trend indicator is phenomenal in picking market turning points. I trade some of the stocks they recommend and I use their trend indicator to determine when i should open long or short positions in stocks that i closely monitor. Based on the trend indicator i was able to open large positions in APPL, NVDA, AMZN, CHKP, ABMD, etc when it warned of the markets pulling back towards the end January but Sol also stated that this pullback should be viewed as a buying opportunity.
The Dow pulled back strongly and I jumped into the above stocks; the above mentioned stocks are ones that I follow. I also opened positions in several of the stocks they recommended. In a few months I have made enough money to pay for decades of this service.
If you are willing to follow a disciplined approach of trading then this service will not disappoint you. .
I’d be curious how you did on the recent downturn.
I am going to keep this short as I generally don’t like to write reviews and secondly I like to get straight to the point
Overall the service is excellent; Exceptional Customer service and a very disciplined approach to trading
If you are not willing to follow simple rules where discipline and to some degree patience are emphasized then this service might not be for you.
Sentiment analysis is probably the best I have ever seen in my 25 years of trading. Sol’s understanding of the Mass Mindset is phenomenol. I have been with them for 12 months and have no regrets so far.
Summing up this service in one sentence
If you are a position trader that can follow simple rules, then this service is a God send and vice versa.
I have a slightly different experience of Tactical Investor — I send them one email and then another in the space of 1 week — RECEIVED NO REPLY!!! STILL !! So really cannot confirm the other viewpoints on TI
I recently signed up and paid for the subscription. I never heard a thing back from tactical investor. Sent email asking for newsletter and received no response.
Nancy, I had the same problem. Come to find out they don’t check the tacticalsubscriptions@gmail.com address that often…Mabel advised that if you want a quick reply use solanotrader@yahoo.com. There is also another e-mail that I can’t seem to locate at the moment, but I would suggest using the second one for a quicker response. Jim
Nancy when you sign up it states that it takes up to three business days to process a subscription. I suspect that you tried to contact them on their general email address before the end of three business days. I had the same experience but I tried to contact them on their general email address before the processintg period of 3 days was up.
Mabel also informed me that the general email address is flooded with inquiries and that they give preference to inquires from subscribers. Once your subscription is processed they provide you with an email that is reserved only for subscribers and the response rate is very fast.
My only question is How do they get flooded with inquiries when I couldn’t even find any kind of contact information on their website? Only found it on this website in a comment. Just wondering what I was missing, however, I will wait the 3 days (this was day 2, or probably day 1 since I subscribed on a weekend). I did email a question about using a different email for my newsletters. Hopefully I can change that from the email that paypal is connected to…
Carla at the bottom of their Home page they have a contact us link and that link takes you to page that provides a link to their general email address. I noticed that they now removed the @ from their email address and replaced it with at; this was probably done to prevent bots from harvesting email addresses. I am sure your subscription will be processed within the 3 business days and there should be no problem in changing your email address as that is what I requested. They just asked me to update it with PayPal. I had no idea you could do that but it proved to a very easy process
Dear Nancy
I have sent several emails to you but have not received a response. We have been unable to locate your subscription and I asked if you could please send us copy of the PayPal transaction but to date I have received no response. I sent another email today 10/21/2018. If it turns out that the error is on our side or PayPal side we will refund the 24.99 and provide you with a one month subscription free of charge
Kind Regards
Mabel
Hi Mabel
I’m looking at https://tacticalinvestor.com/ and I can’t find how can I contact support and ask questions. I like the content of articles but it is not clear what exactly you offer. Can you please send me an example of recommendations. How often you issue the alert? Please provide more details.
Dear Alexander
We don’t check this site as often as we do our emails. In the future please send all questions to tacticalsubscriptions@gmail.com
Three updates are sent every month and if warranted as many interim updates as necessary are sent in between updates. We cover, stocks, options and are offerring the ETF trend trader service as a bonus for a limited period.
Regards
Mabel
Mabel
Joined via Paypal for the trial – no response yet
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It’s been 9 months since I joined the service. I spent the first month digesting all the new data and the next two months paper trading. I could have speeded up the process, but I prefer to do things without stress which coincidentally seems to be the motto at the tactical investor.
I can tell you off the bat that this service is not for the impatient or impulsive trader. They follow a strict set of rules which are simple in nature but call for patience. The trading methodology is quite simple, when the trend is up, all strong pullbacks should be viewed as buying opportunities. I can tell you as trader with many years of experience it takes a huge load of my shoulders to know the trend in advance. Knowing the trend in advance provides with me extra time to compile a list of the best stocks I would like to own. For the record they provide stock and option suggestions but I also like to have my own list.
This service can be used in two ways. One you simply follow all their trades and they do issue plenty of trades. Second you follow the trades they put out but if you have some trading information you can use the data they provide, short term trend analysis in conjunction with market sentiment to lock in some juicy profits. For example, towards the end of Jan 2018, they stated that bullish sentiment had soared to 7 year high and that the market was trading in the extremely overbought ranges. This analysis rhymed with my analysis; the tools I employ were also stating that the market was overbought. So i shorted the market by purchasing puts on the Dow, S&P 100 index and 2 futures contract. Well, i was a very happy puppy a few weeks later. I closed all the positions out when the Dow tested 24000, yes I could have made more but I was very happy with the profits. The profits that I made on the S&100 index puts would pay for several years of the service; on the Dow futures contracts I netted north of 10K.
The story does not end there. Even though Sol stated that the markets were overbought, the trend as per their Trend indicator was bullish and that means all strong pullbacks or corrections should be treated as buying events. Thus when the Dow traded below 24k, I started opening up long positions and as they say the rest is history
In September they stated something similar, bullish sentiment was too high and the markets were overbought. I followed the same strategy I shorted the Dow around 26,800, closed the position when the Dow breached 25K. I then reversed and started opening long positions. I expect more volatility and will not be surprised if the Dow trades below 25K again but as long as their Trend Indicator remains bullish I will continue to add to my long positions.
So if you have a bit of trading experience and or are willing to take small calculated risks using the data they provide, you can boost your profits tremendously.
I have also followed their trade suggestions and most of them have performed well; I have made a lot more than I have lost
That’s great! I can’t wait to get started. I purchased one year of their premium newsletter, and have emailed them, but have not heard from them yet. Guess I’m just impatient. It has only been 2 days and one of those was a weekend. Also, finding any contact information was impossible. I had to get that from a comment on this website.
The Trend Indicator works as described. Their Sentiment data is phenomenol and with a little bit of practise and paper trading you can use the Trend indicator in conjunction with the sentiment data to open long or short positions via Options or Futures for additional gains. I am planning on becoming a long term subscriber
I am as green as they come. So the first thing I did after was read as many articles as I could by Sol Palha; a full list can be found by visiting this link https://tacticalinvestor.com/reports-by-sol-palha/
After reading 10 articles i realized that these guys knew what they were doing but that i was not going to be able to mimic them overnight. Having said that this service as some others have stated is not for the undisciplined trader; their approach to the markets is simple but the approach is very disciplined.
Unlike many other services they also teach you to fish, so you can go out and look for independent trades if you want to.
I decided to allocate five months to learning after joining the service and don’t regret my decision at all. First two months I spent reading and understanding all the main concepts; could have done it faster but preferred to follow their slogan “slow but sure”
I allocated another two months to paper trading and then went live on the fifth month. I was lucky; the month I decided to go live I logged in a nice big win. I added to my profits by purchasing calls on the stock. I felt comfortable playing with options as over the five month period I was also studying option trading and more importantly I only invested money on options that I could afford to lose
Bottom line
Great service for traders willing to take a disciplined approach to trading and vice versa
As a trader I am thrilled with the results so far; I have never seen a service go out on a limb to state that panic does not pay and do so when the market is crashing. This excerpt (under the line below) is being posted with permission from the Tactical Investor. It perfectly sums up why any trader and for that matter novice would find this service to be of value. I made north of 20K by going long the ES in a few days just because of their trend indicator which stated that any pullback in October was to treated as a buying opportunity. My Technical analysis confirmed this, but it was great to see a service go on a limb just before the markets broke down. Instead of panicking they put what they practice into action
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The combined score of the bears and neutrals now stands at 71%. The anxiety index has also experienced a new sharp swing, clearly indicating that the crowd is now in a precarious state; no bull market has ever ended on a sour note, and we do not think this is going to be the start of a new trend.
The picture emerging from the Dow utilities is very bullish, and it almost ensures that the Dow is going to be trading close at or above 27K within six months or less. Now you can worry and join the experts that are predicting an end to this bull and in doing so follow the same pattern of leaping before looking. Keep a journal for this trading journal will prove to be far more valuable than any other lesson you will ever learn when it comes to the market. What’s different this time around from the selloff in Feb of this year or previous sell-offs; each time the experts issued dire warnings that the world was going to end. Fast forward the only thing that came to a halt was their nonsensical musings. One day this market will crash and it will pullback very strongly, but we are willing to bet that all the fools that are panicking now, will be busy diving into the markets just when they should be bailing out.
A weekly close below 24,900 is likely to lead to a test of the 24,400 ranges with an overshoot to the 24,200 ranges (plus or minus 150 points)
Use pullbacks to scale into calls. One option is to open LEAPS on the Dow Diamonds (DIA), for example, the June 2019 285 calls (symbol = DIA190628C00285000). Use a layered approach and don’t be overzealous.
The underlying trend is positive (up) so strong pullbacks should be viewed through a bullish lens. For the record, this is exactly what we did in Feb of this year. We have been through these shakeouts before, the weak hands always fold and then when the markets bottom out they scream with anger promising never to repeat the same mistake but end up doing precisely the same thing they did before. Stock market crashes are buying opportunities as long as the primary trend is up and the primary trend is up. Oct 15, 2018 Tactical Investor Market Update
#short #Bullmarket2018
Just signed up this weekend and Mabel responded back almost immediately. Many thanks to her. As I have not even logged in yet I will keep my review to simply saying that the vast majority of the comments/reviews about the Tactical Investor are right here on Stock Gumshoe and they are nearly all positive and encouraging. That being said, once I get my feet wet I will return for a full review to let you know how it turns out. Thanks again to all members and guest for your informative comments.
Customer service is excellent as described by others. I would even go further and add superb, plus the signup and or cancellation process is a breeze, no hassles at all.
In terms of the service, I agree with others that state it requires discipline, but the rules are fairly easy to comprehend if you don’t rush. I use the service in two ways
I follow the stocks they recommend and choose the ones that appeal to me
The second way is via the their trend indicator and sentiment data both of which are incredibly accurate. When the trend indicator is bullish and the sentiment is negative and there is a pullback I purchase stocks that I am following and have done well so far. In fact, by just following their trend indicator and sentiment data and simple rules I have more than doubled my success rate.
I would also recommend that you start slow and allocate time to understanding their trading style. I allocated three months for this. I started by taking the trial subscription for 24.99, then i cancelled that an opted or the quarterly rate which is much cheaper than the monthly rate. I will most likely cancel the quarterly subscription and upgrade to the yearly subscription as it offers much better value for money
Set aside some time to study the materials they send you. It is simple but you have to change the way you think. While I understood everything very well in roughly two months, i put aside an additional two months to paper trade and make sure I would not fall to my old ways and that paid off.
14 months later I have paid for at least 3 years of my subscription with the profits. In total I banked about 5K in profits but I was playing with only a fraction of my portfolio and for the amount of money i invested i have done very well. I took larger stakes this Oct and Nov as Sol’s advice was to view the strong pullback as a bullish development, so far the results are good as I opened long positions very close to the lows.
If you are just going to jump in and do what you have always done before, then this service is most likely not for you. If you are looking for a strategy that works and are willing to put in a bit of time and take a disciplined approach to trading, this is the service for you
Just signed up for free one-month trial. Looking forward to the learning!
How did the trial work out for you? I don’t see an option for a free trial of their premium service, only a free newsletter.
There is no free trial. However there is a special for 24.99. It worked out fine for me. After the trial ended I changed the subscription to quarterly billing and later i changed it again to yearly. All in all I am satisfied as they cater to my style of trading. Looking for great long term plays but not chasing the market.
How did the trial work out? I don’t see an option for a free trial of their premium service, only a free newsletter.
I took the trial for 24.99 for 30 days. It worked out for me because I beleive in the concepts of patience and discipline. I however, cancelled before the 30th day, as I found the yearly subscription proved to be a better deal and opted for that instead.
What i like about the signup process is that it is as easy to cancel as it is to signup, which is the way it should be. The whole proces takes less than 3 minutes.
As for the service i posted a comment before answering this question. If you are willing to follow key rules, that are simple to follow if you put your mind to it, then this is a good service. However, if you are going to jump in and do whatever you did before then this service most likely won’t work for you
How did the trial work out? I don’t see an option to try their premium service for free, only a free newsletter.
I should of signed up for 1 month free trial. he gives you a really hard time, when you ask for a refund like he just wants to make you suffer with his convoluted writing style hoping you’ll just give up asking or something. It’s just my honest opinion, I’m suspicious of all these 5 star reviews he got on here. When you first sign up, he pleads to you to tell him where you heard about his newsletter (so he can find out where he can concentrate his marketing strategy that is working?). When he asked me, it made me uncomfortable, but in order to make sure I didnt get on his bad side, since it felt like he was writing to me personally (even though he probably spam messages the same thing to all new members, he might keep an eagle eye on everyone who didnt respond), I told him I heard about his newsletter here.
he has a very personalized subscription service, with very little contact/bio info of him, only sends stuff to you via email, and no idea what he looks like.
He seems like a paranoid, numbers person with a big ego and a particular way he expects ppl to communicate with him (via email only). he likes to delay things, omit certain information, and make you think and draw your own conclusions.
His newsletter is really convoluted and all over the place; lacks a good explanation. His PDF image charts are blurred, so that you can’t see the numbers. He sends you emails of the newsletters (he doesn’t have a website access to your account). He has no phone number to reach his office for customer service, and these 5 star votes he got on here look really fake.
I left a review not too long ago here and I have to disagree with your statement. There are many sites that don’t post their portfolios online and that is decision that one should respect for whatever reason. As for the charts you speak off, I have yet to see one blurry chart. I think they post some of the best charts out there.
As I stated in my previous review, you have to set aside some time to understand their trading style. I looked at the article Sol posted on other sites over the years and found that just on the public articles their track record is very good. I think you decided to jump in head first without taking the time to grasp their methodology.
They don’t list a phone number but their email response rate is exceptional and the responses are always detailed. I would rather get the answer i am looking for then call up a number that is answered by a customer service rep that knows next to nothing.
I knew a guy named Sol, when I was in college. he was the scammiest person i’ve ever met in my life. He was afghan italian rapper musician and he’d try to troll me on MySpace and make me look bad and try to get me into long-winded arguments in messaging. he was a very litigious, lawyer-type of guy i suppose. I hope this Sol isnt scammy too. I’ve had bad experience with people named Sol’s.
I think you have a personal gripe as you seem to have a very volatile nature as you use some unflattering language in some of them and you seem to ramble. I hope you don’t trade the same way. I still can’t make sense of what the real problem is. Not posting a number is not a major issue. I subscribe to several newsletters that don’t post a phone number on their site. The main issue for me is getting a response and in that area, I have always received a response from Mabel or one of the other TI staff and the responses are detailed.
You state that your refund was delayed because of a miscommunication, that statement is very telling. Miscommunication on whose end; your end or their end. Did they steal your money, did they refuse to issue you a refund, did you insult them, did you send confusing emails, did they insult you? what’s the real deal?
I am paying customer and I have never experienced anything close to what you are stating you have experienced. In fact, my experience is totally the opposite of yours.
If he had great customer service, he’d have a phone number. his email responses took the refund request longer than it would of taken if instead he had a phone number. I’m STILL in the process of getting my refund and he keeps asking me bullshit questions about things that don’t matter (i.e. email miscommunications). I just want to get my refund.
Misccomunication does not matter. Hell son, what planet do you ail from. If i said that to the person interviewing me for my present job I would have never landed the job. Communication is everything and if you miscomunicated its not B.S as you claim, it is a valid issue that would need to be resolved.
I can’t for the life of me figure how any sane person could make sure a comment.
Look at his December “plunder from down under” market update. His uranium chart is all blurry; You can’t see the dates.
With all due respect that is not his service, that is a bonus he is offerring from John; there used to be charge for that in the past i think and Tactical Investor is now subsidizing that for free. The charts i was refferring to were the ones in the main servce the market update service. If a bonus service is being offerred for free I personally would not make a big issue of it. If I am not mistaken one of those plays in the plunder from down under was up almost a 1000% at one point; very little to complain about in my opinion just my two cents
You are joking right. You complaint is that they don’t post their holdings online. I am sorry, but i find your gripe to be downright childish. How old are you? I hope your are not one of those spoilt millennial brats that thinks the world revolves around you. A business is allowed to do what it deems to be best for its success. I have scrolled through all the comments and no one else has complained about this issue. So what gives? perhaps you have some personal vendetta?
No phone number posted on the site in the age of the internet is a non issue. I have numbers to several newsletters I subscribe to both finanical and non financial and i dread calling them because the customer service reps make you wait forever and when you talk to someone you get cookie cutter answers.
I am not a subscriber but just as an outsider reading your comments, over 75% of what you have to say fallls under the category of nonsense
First of all I would like to thank the owner of this site (stockgumshoe); its a great watering hole for informative content.
I don’t like to write a lot so i am going to keep it very brief. If you are willing to put some time into studying their methodology , then this service can be a very great tool to improving your success rate. On the other hand if you don’t put anytime and just jump in head first then my suggestion is look elsewhere.
As an experienced trader but one that allocated time to this study it took me less than a month to get jist of their overall strategy. I have been a subscriber for roughly 1 year