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Chris Weber
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Go anywhere newsletter, follows Chris Weber’s portfolio and typically includes advice on gold, foreign stocks, bonds, etc.
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I have subscribed for greater than 5 years Chris Weber provides a great overview of the markets. Crux of investment advice is to find low risk, high reward situations, with capital preservation being the key. He uses technical analysis, generally of break-out/trend following strategy to augment his underlying fundamental analysis. Essentially Chris Weber attempts to get in on the ground floor of 3 year plus bull moves, where the underlying fundamental value leaves minimal down-side risk at the time of entry. I couldn’t recommend his newsletter any higher, and in fact have to many friends and colleagues.
I have subscribed to many newsletters, after thinking I knew how to invest and got my fingers burned in the dotcom crash. His calls for major market trends are the most accurate I’ve come across, and now I follow his advice first as to which market(s) to be in, before I’d even consider buying anything recommended elsewhere. For $200 it’s great value and as the first comment said, if you had to go down to one newsletter to get all your advice from this would be my choice. I’ve been a subscriber for about 18 months.
I have subscribed to the Weber Global Opportunities Report for five years now. I think of myself as a “student” of Chris Weber’s. The past few months have given me the opportunity for quite a bit of intensive “study” of his methods! Chris is cool-headed, conservative, and practical and watches out for both risk and opportunities to safeguard and make the most of what you have. His portfolio results are very impressive. Since subscribing, I have had trouble figuring out when to get into a stock because he believes in it and he’s been holding it and it’s up 350% or more…what do you do with that? Buy? I would find it more helpful if he gave me a gauge of the current value of each stock he is holding. That would not be a problem for new subscribers, though, because (with a nod to Dow Theory) he just sold nearly everything, so now is a good time to subscribe! He seems to always read the tea leaves before events happen, and I have learned to act on his advice immediately whenever I get an alert. I have also learned to pay attention to Dow Theory signals by reading his letter and also Richard Russell’s Dow Theory Letter. Since subscribing, I have never been without Chris’ letter and never will be. I read it as soon as I get it. I am still learning a lot from it, still becoming a better investor. If you subscribe, you will too. It’s great.
If I’d followed Weber’s advice during the five years I’ve subscribed, I’d be a happy guy today. I never did the Max Yield program, so missed the Icelandic Krone disaster, but his basic recommendations have been spot on for a long time. Even his misses — ie. Joy Global — ended up being ok. I like his caution — the “what if I’m wrong” mentality works for me.
I have been a subscriber for 2 years now. I trust his good and valuable judgments. His protection of the assets invested and because he himself invests in what he advises his subscribers. I wish I have been braver to invest in many of his adivise because he has proven to be a very accurate and good advisor on the cautious side yet I see him making money 100% many times on his investment advise. I am right now invested in gold and silver which should prove to be a good investment. I believe he is right on. He has been in the past but the presious metal still has to be proven since I got in it only about 8 months ago.
As a regular working guy with relatively modest funds to invest/protect, I am very happy to have been a subscriber to the Weber Global Economic Report for about 2 years now. Safety first is Chris’s approach – along with sensible and easy to comprehend profitable positions in the financial markets. Simply following Chris’s advice to own precious metals “up to the level where you can sleep at night” and keeping much of the rest in cash should help greatly in simply not losing money through this very destructive economic period. Making money is great but most important is not losing what money one has already.
Having just vented on Currency Options Insider as a complete waste of money with terrible customer service, I felt I should say something good about The Weber Report.
It is not only enjoyable to read but Chris Weber seems to genuinely care about the financial welfare (& welfare in general) of his subscribers, which makes a pleasant change these days.
Cannot recommend this newsletter highly enough for anybody seriously interested in the fundamentals of investing.
Irealy love 2 use weber’s max yield strtegy,as iam from over seas,it kana some allusion of what i have red som artikl about mr weber any way idlik 2 e mail me more information in order 2 be convinced.
bestregard
dari
Valuable for its insights and steady record of success.
I am a subscriber for the last 3 years based in India. The Weber Global Opportunities Report is a very interesting read giving sound reasoning for the picks. Weber is basically an investor in hard commodity assets like bullion, some metal stocks, and also fixed interest rate currency deposits.
The key strategy is basically very simple–first, look for the best deals in bullion–buy silver when it is relatively cheaper than gold (gold-silver ratio over say, 65 is a silver buy), and also buy some gold.
Second, invest in a deposit in a ‘safe’ currency instrument yielding the best interest rate you can get. The Icelandic Kroner recommendation as a ‘Max Yield currency’ was a disaster, but other than that Weber has been very successful over the past 20 years of investing.
The ‘Max Yield’ principle can be applied to any economy by investing in a sovereign instrument giving the best locked-in interest rate.
The Weber Global Opportunities Report serves as a very useful reminder to me that one should focus on basic safe investment principles and apply these to one’s wealth building and protecting efforts.
I’m subscribing to Chris Weber’s newsletter since 2 months and I’ve to admit that it’s worth a five star ranking!!!!
Quick, short, unbiased and opportunistic in any market condition….
I like if people aren’t married to their positions/opinions and try to get most out of a trend not getting caught by squeezing out the last two or 4 percent from Mr. Market!!!!
Keep on with the good work Chris!!!!
Rgs from Germany
My expectations were probably unrealistic, based on the reviews, but I found very little useful advise. Interesting commentary and background info. Caution: customer service is close to non-existent and forget about the promised total refund within 3 months. I cancelled within 3 weeks and was offered only a partial refund and was treated rudely and hung up upon.
Don’t subscribe to this letter if you want a stock pick a month. Subscribe to get some great advice and macro perspective from someone who has been around investing for a long time. Great to read, informative, insightful. One of the only newsletters I have never let lapse. I agree with the writer above- i told my wife, ‘if I kick the bucket- go back and read every one of Chris’ old newsletters and keep subscribing- nothing else.’
Guys – come on … let’s get real.
You buy a cheap newsletter like this for ‘news and views’, and for that it’s great. You get great insights and explantions as to what is going on in the world plus a ring side seat into what Chris Webber is doing with his funds. This does not mean that you should blindly follow him like a lemming.
You are the investor. You should do your own research and you should make your own investment decisions. You then take the kudos, the profits and the losses as you deserve.
If you want to subjugate your reponsibility to others put your money with AIG, Lehman or any of the others that have ‘performed’ so publically for us all to see.
Really good original investment advice costs real money and lots of time. So start saving now, or do it yourself.
All the best Chris and keep the insights coming.
An addendum: after the review the service refunded my full subscription. Thank you Stock Gumshoe for giving us the opportunity to air ALL experiences.
This is my first Financial Newsletter and I am very happy with it. His years of experience in the business really shine through in these interesting newsletters. Its a great value for your money. I will be a member for a long time to come.
I almost subscribed to the newsleter after reading the reviews..but something caught my eyes which I feel is strange..I hope i am not reading too much in to ist BUT its better to be cautious than sorry:
24 out of 35 reiews are posted in February 2009! Specifically 6 reviews on Feb 16 & 8 on Feb 18! Too good to be coincidence! I hope I am wrong!
In answer to Raman, above, it is not a coincendence. A reader told me about this site in early February, and in my mid-Feb issue I told my readers to post their comments on it—good or bad. That explains why so many comments came in the next few days.
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Chris Weber
It is now January 1, 2010, and I see that no one has followed up on Raman (above) – other than Mr “Chris Weber” himself. I assume he exists (can we see a photo?). I am seeking a good newsletter to subscribe to, and have followed all this very useful feedback that Gumshoe provides.
Good. As an English professor, whose one special ability allows him to make the comments that follow, I am, like Raman, extremely suspicious about “Mr Weber”. I have strong reason to believe that all the people who wrote the “positive” reviews above do not exist, while most, but not all, of the negative reviewers clearly DO exist. (At least, it is clear to me as an English professor.)
I think too that any intelligent reader who follows Mr “Weber’s” trail will come to the conclusion that he is strongly associated with the Agora organisation.
I would counsel extreme caution with this newsletter.
I have subscribed to Chris Weber’s newsletter for 5 months now and have found him to be honest and conservative which I appreciate. His views give both up and down scenerios which I find very helpful. I have made my own decisions about what to invest in but find his newsletter very helpful for the edu cation it offers for an International outlook on investing. He doesn’t push any particular stock but gives you his investments and the reasoning he uses to come to his choices and leaves the rest to you. I have emailed him twice and have received answers both times. To Dean, I would have to say that I am not a fiction of your imagination but live in Austin, Texas and have no idea what the Agora organization is but if you insenuate that this is a group Mr Weber is connected to you should explain what it is supposed to represent! This is January 2, 2010 and I will be interested to see your response.
To Professor Dean, though I have not actually met any of the people who have posted comments, I assume they are real, because I do have readers,and some of them write to me, and I usually–but not always–have the time to answer them. In any case, I make an offer that one can subscribe and cancel his or her subscription within the first three months and get a full refund, so there is no risk….and what makes a good investor is one who can manage risk!