Author/Editor
Amy Calistri
Publisher
StreetAuthority
Description
Monthly newsletter identifying one pick per issue, along with irregular email alerts.
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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?
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.
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.
Present subscriber. Unfortunately her returns tend to mirror the S&P as a whole. Will likely try another service soon.
Now that I’ve been a subscriber for a while, the fantastic performance touted for 2009 is considerably diminished this year. Comparing Amy’s performance to the S&P doesn’t impress nearly as much as Street Authority’s rantings. It is cheap though and interesting reading but is heavily used to promote other (pricier) services. Definitely (along with Leeb) fills up my e-mail every day.
2010 New Rules
My Opinion:
With Congress messing with financial reform, Cap & Trade, restructering of banks, the market is going to remain volitile.
The institutional investors are manipulatging the market at the expense of the small investor. They are pretty much day trading. You may like a specific stock which has great technicals trending up then an instatutional investor with pension funds shorts the stock and boom he wins you lose.
I alwas try to find smaller out of the way companies that don’t have the volume quite yet, and only need to worry about other hunters.
Price is reasonable and she does a decent job.But what you are promised and what you actually get is much different.
Stock of the month is exactly what it sounds like. Amy recommends one stock each month. Her picks do ok. As of July 2010 her real money portfolio which started April of 2009 has gone from $100,000 to $116,700. It breaks down to a 1.1% gain per month or 13.2% per year since inception. The site lists an honest track record of all purchases including closed purchases. She keeps her winners and closes any losers so her current portfolio looks good.
I do not like the listing of annualized returns wich makes trades that took place over a few weeks or months show “annualized returns” with numbers like “503.4%” or “99.6%” since the trades actually gained 18.2% and 22.1% respectively. But in her defense all trades hsow exctly the shares bought and real dollar returns for the trades.
I do like that she uses real money trades. Amy tells you what she is going to buy, how many shares, the exact dollar amount she will invest, and even gives you time to buy the stock before she makes her purchase.
I purchased the service for 2 years so I’ll stick with it for a while. The three recommendations she has made since I signed up have done well so far.
Amy, follow your advise, Research, research, research – QTMM a unique growth business poised to dominate a mass market!
I have gotten Stock of the Month for almost a year. I have profited on every recommendation Amy has made and that I have purchased. As recently as Thursday I sold HOGS and SBH which I purchased and sold at her recomendation and made over $4,000.
As far as I am concerned….Amy knows what she is doing!!
I started my subscription in October 2009. I did well on a few of her early picks and still hold one.
I started learning something about Technical Analysis and have sort of hung back on some of timing.
I really like her discussion every month and I actually bought my first closed-end fund through her education.
I also get the Daily Paycheck. It’s way more expensive and is now really working hard to get dividend issues worthy of suggesting in the current environment. Some have EXTREMELY low liquidity. I really haven’t bought anything and one (FAX) is a duplicate from the Stock of the Month. I will probably dump this one. Same high quality discussion but just not into some of the funds she picks.
I may have missed the boat on lots of money, but since I am just learning, better safe than sorry. I’m not scrambling right now for money from trading, so I’d rather be cautious.
I have subscribed for about 6 months and the picks have been very good to excellent. It looks like the time horizon on these investments is at least 6 months. Her picks have solid fundementals and generally good but not perfect entry points. If your time horizon is over 12 months, entry timing does not matter much. Buy all her picks but feel free to use your own judgement about entry and exit points (and how you play them) if you are not happy with her recommendations (which are usually good).
I did my own DD and a technical analysis on her picks and decided that a couple were really ready to pop. I purchased calls 3-4 months away from expiration, enjoyed a nice gain then purchased the stock for the long term. Her service is not an options advisory service though. It is just that some of her picks are so good, you can’t help yourself from banking a quick gain.
Content of her newletters is excellent and she does provide updates when things don’t go as expected so readers are not in the dark.
There is one pick (a arbitrage Mutual Fund) that has not done much until now. Looks like this sleeper is turning into another winner though. From my experience so far you will make money with Amy’s service. Of course we have been in a bull market since I have subscribed. The real test will come should we end up in a bear market later this year or next year. When you read these reviews on Gumshoe, look at the dates. The reviews are almost always better in bull markets than in bear markets.
Hi guys, how is this newsletter doing. Any inputs. I am interested to know because I plan to subscribe in the near future. Thanks.
Just stumbled onto this site. It’s several months since any reviews about Amy. How is she doing? I’m searching for a newsletter with good info.
You asked for an update. I have been investing with amy for about 18 months and in that time we have only had one loser. Every other pick i have sold for 25%-45% gain. Some much more in the bull market. I also wanted to note that when Travis reviewed the the stock of the month news letter about a year ago her pick was IBM. he thought it was boring and so did I. Well today it is up 37%. she usually holds for 6 months to a year and has a way picking one stock that will beat the market. I recommend.
Hi, guys! Enjoyed reading the various posts about Amy’s newsletter. I recently subscribed, and all seems impressive from what I have read. I would be curious to learn from some of you as to what you did right after you subscribed… Did you buy all of Amy’s picks at the current price, did you wait until the next pick came out, and kept buying each month unit you have all 12 stocks, did you “pick and choose”, etc… Some of the picks have a big gain, and as good as they are, there may not be a big updide anymore… Would appreciate any insight anyone has…
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Stock of the Month by Amy Calistri’
Came across a couple articles on the web that Amy purchased 75 shares of Hormel on the morning of October 4th and 45 shares of Nike on the afternoon of October 31st. Both stocks have been affected by the market correction. Hormel is up 13.93% YTD, and Nike is up 6.78 YTD.
Suscribed 2 years and quit. Tried to follow her to a tee but her entry points always lower, so I don’t think the average investor is likely to exactly replicate. Her buy/sell spreadsheet doesn’t update immediately so you have to wait to see her entry pricepoint the following month. If she has a loser she sometimes doubles or triples down and then sells on small price jumps. She easily kept 25%-35% of her 100K portfolio in a cash position to do just that. Easy read, good ideas, but she was perhaps spread too thin with a couple newsletters. Got tired of all the additional newsletter pitches. Make me some $$$ then we’ll see! Some dogs PKX -30%, EZPW -16%. Did like her layout and her logic, but my vanilla index fund did a lot better with zero hassle and fees were less too.
I subscribed in December 2010 to Stock of the Month,and have been getting Ami’s picks ever since. so far I am really pleased with her advice as I have made money on all but one pick. I like that she tells you when she will execute her order and for how many shares. she also gives a target price. the fact that this is a real money portfolio and you can review this at any time is comforting. I usually watch the charting (prefer candlesticks) and several indicators to determine if I want to buy when she suggests or at a later date. this is a good news letter for someone who doesn’t want to spend a lot of time doing research.