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JPL
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JPL
March 8, 2010 9:19 pm

Hi, Chris,
You indicated that one should not “form an opinion on anything” unless he has experienced it. Good advice, as too many times things are not what they appeared to be.
Hope I did not tarnish your reputation in any way.

JPL
3/08/2010

Dave H
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Dave H
April 11, 2010 12:12 pm

First of all – why are all these reviews here from people who state they do not subscribe and have not even read anything from Chris Weber? I don’t understand why people are posting their uninformed opinions in a review space. I don’t appreciate it and it is certainly unfair to Chris.

From what I have read of his in the past year that I have subscribed, Chris made his fortune in precious metals many years ago. He has a currency and savings strategy that has worked well over many years also. He takes a long term view, basically conservative and especially so at the present time, he is focused on protection of wealth against both deflation and inflation. I find his overall big picture views interesting and informative. He does not have any stock picks at this time as he feels market is now quite risky, although he did call the March 09 bottom and suggested an ETF that worked well and is still working at this time. He offers sound advice about trailing stops. If you are looking for hot stock tips or get rich quick hype this is not for you. If you have some wealth accumulated and are concerned with preserving it as this crisis continues to unfold this letter is well worth subscribing to. This is a big picture, long trend, historical view of the investing environment.

Chris is an intelligent and interesting guy with an appreciation for history and travel. I have a good feeling about him and feel his advice has an honesty you will not find in other newsletters. He is not hyping any risky plays just to satisfy subscriber’s need to feel they are getting their moneys worth like some other publications.

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Dave H
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Dave H
April 11, 2010 12:27 pm

I understand people’s suspicions of newsletter writers but my experience of Chris is that he is honest and quite low key. For the record, as Chris stated earlier in this space he did advise his readers of this review site in his Feb 16th 2009 edition. As a subscriber I have access and copied it from that issue:

Rate My Letter, Warts and All
There is a sort of “consumer’s report” for investment newsletters to be found at:
http://www.stockgumshoe.com/reviews/ . It is meant to be reviews “by investors, for
investors”. You may find it of interest, and if there is something you want to say about my
letter, say it. Don’t worry….I can take the knocks, but so far any negative comments have
been about stocks people have bought that fell and people lost money. No one can pick
stocks that go up all the time; I do the best I can. But stocks have not been a central part of
my strategy since November of 2007.
There are places on this website to rate my letter on things like “Customer Service”, Value
for the Money”, etc. Feel free to state your views.

Don
Don
May 18, 2010 4:42 pm

I subscribed to the letter for one year. I let my subscription expire, but may join again in the future if Mr
Weber is willing to address an issue I raised with him before.

Chris takes a very macro view with regards to investments. He does not really invest in individual companies (though he has done so within biotech in the past) and prefers broad sector indices. His writings make a lot of sense and I completely agree with his assessments on the macro economy.

One of his letters around March 2009 did indeed recommend readers to tip their toes back into equities but he was cautious about this being a bear market rally. In hindsight, based on events of the past couple of weeks he may well be right. I also remember his prediction back in Dec/Jan 2010 that gold is unlikely to make another move up for the first quarter of 2010. Indeed, gold is now back to its historic highs since late April.

He does not feel the need to make buy recommendations on a frequent basis, and that is as it should for a true investor. My main problem with his thesis is that he is almost exclusively focused on precious metals. While I agree with his reasons for supporting investment in this area, he completely disregards the political risks involved. The market for metals is one that is heavily manipulated by central governments, who have an interest in depressing gold/silver prices. Think back to the Hunt brothers in the late 1970’s.

As a customer I have written to Weber about this issue before, hoping he could elucidate his readers on this matter through his Q&A section. He never answered the question, and I think he really owes it to his readers, if he is to continue recommending gold and silver. It appears that Mr Weber monitors this forum and has redressed some of his subscribers’ grievances in the past. I will gladly rejoin if he is so kind to answer this question.

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May 22, 2010 11:35 pm

I am a current subscriber but will not renew. It is not that the newsletter is a problem, but that I find that the information and viewpoints are available for free at other sites on the Internet. There are many editorials, forums, and specialized sites for precious metals on the Internet that are free, and if you take the time to find them and read their reports and research, you will gain the same information.

C Trout
C Trout
June 5, 2010 2:48 pm

I only subscribed for Chris Weber’s report for a year. To keep this review short and simple he is basically a cash and hard asset (gold & silver)promoter. Now I am a big fan of hard assets and keeping some of the portfolio in other currencies (I live in the United States.) The few picks he did have were rather small positions. So although he correctly positioned into the Dow 30 Stock a year ago, there was very little conviction. A 10% investment in to what turned out to be a major market move seems to be more of a miss to me. Also, he gave the okay for a larger position about a month before the recent correction. He shorted China with FXP and I don’t believe he really knew that the investment is options based. The trade stopped out where if he would have selected to short FXI he would not have stopped out.

Basically not a lot of effort put into the selections. I would pass. I sure there are much better selections.

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Madinvestor
June 10, 2010 9:23 am

I subscribed this newsletter based on the ratings here a few months ago but I don’t think I will renew the subscription. I liked his insights and comments about the market but it is very macro. Even though he seems to read the market well, he is so cautious. As a result, he tends to be very defensive when you have to be aggressive. I think his comments and advice would be very beneficial to those who want to defend their wealth. But it is not for those who want to make money with small amount of asset.
I also got impression that his prediction works well for coming year and quarters but not for coming weeks.
If you have more than 500K for investment and want to defend your wealth with reasonable gains, then this is the letter you want to subscribe. However if your investment money is a few hundreds K, then look for other newsletters.

CD
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CD
June 16, 2010 8:24 pm

I’m a real person. I have been a subscriber to Chris Weber’s newsletter since it was a biotech focused newsletter. He had a simple and very valuable insight – that the picks and shovels of the budding biotech industry is where people will make the best long term gains. And it was exactly right. Chris wrote a book a long time ago called “getting rich outside the dollar” – it’s a good book and you can get a low risk look at his writing and history through a used copy of that book. Chris is wealthy, and even if you have a small amount of investing capital – you should invest just as the wealthy do. The previous reviewer who wants weekly trading advice will never be a successful investor, it’s just not going to work out for him/her.

The gains from holding assets in bull markets from the beginning through something near the end are far greater than any newsletter is going to provide. By following Chris’s investments with his own money, the newsletter allows people who wouldn’t otherwise stick with a bull market to see how a wealthy, successful investor outperforms his contemporaries by changing very little month to month. The real money in investing is made with the sitting, and the holding, and the adding to positions that are obviously working. 15-17 year bull markets. We’re 10 years or so into a bull market in Precious Metals and Weber is sitting. As he should.

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S.Day
S.Day
August 3, 2010 11:40 am

I subscribed to Webber’s Opportunities Report, mainly based on the glowing reviews received here. So far in my six issues I have read nothing except his continual bragging of buying gold at much lower prices. He would like to buy more, but since he bought at much lower prices he is happy to not buy, unless it comes down to much lower prices. Well hey, I bought gold also, over 35 years ago “at much lower prices”, and I still own it, but what does that have to with investing now. One reason we subscribe to a newsletter is to keep up on changing times and fresh ideas, Chris Weber is stuck in a time warp, did I mention he bought gold years ago at much lower prices. But he doesn’t recommend buying it today. So what does he recommend? Not stocks, no, sold all them,(at a profit I might add) not bonds, don’t own any. Currency’s? no official recommendation. His current recommendation, just hold gold and cash, BUT, only gold bought at much lower levels. That’s it, I just saved you $250 bucks.

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JPL
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JPL
August 4, 2010 8:27 pm

Hi, S. Day,
Thank-you very much for your comments. I’ve been “itching” to subscribe based on those glowing reviews, too. But after reading your perspective, presuming they’re candid opinions, I hadn’t missed anything.
Your humorous style of writing gave me a chuckle too.

Take care.

JPL
08-04-2010

Alexander in California
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Alexander in California
August 26, 2010 6:15 pm

Below is a copy of the letter I sent to Mr. Weber. I have
made paper copies of all his newsletters since January 2003, but I think I was a subscriber for at least a year before that.
Either Mr. Weber, or Dr. Steve Sjuggerud said in that time period, “Get out of Debt!”. Probably both of them did.

So, I did. My wonderful wife cried when we sold our house in June of 2004. I liked it too. It was the only house I had seen that had a wall around the lot. None of the other houses had that, but I would certainly want a wall on my next house, if circomstances greatly change, and real estate becomes a reasonable thing to own again.

But I digress. We owned it for 3 years and 2 weeks. We made almost exactly $2,000 per week for the time we owned it. Correction — that may include the $40,000 down payment we made. So, I just did the calculation. It was about $1,750 per week profit.
But the point is: Macro, large scale advice is far more important than individual stock recommendations. At least that has been the case for me.

I am old enough to know how credit was always extended in the past. You could not use more than 30% of your income on housing and you had to put 20% as a down payment. When we were thinking about selling, I calculated that in normal times a buyer would have to put $140,000 down payment, and earn about $162,000 per year. How many people do that?, I thought.
It was a nice house, but not a fancy house. So we sold.

I don’t make investments to show how smart I am. I know I’m not smart, especially about investing.
I know the correct answer to the question, “Do you want to be right? or do you want to make money?”

Dear Mr. Weber,
Thank you so much for your August 15, 2010 issue!

I have been wondering about our gold in Fort Knox for many years. I hope you do get your book, Good as Gold? How We Lost Our Gold Reserves and Destroyed The Dollar. online. More and more people will read it as history unfolds on us all.

Don’t be discouraged that few people own gold. I, too, ask people I meet, “What do you think about gold as an investment?” Some answers are non-committal.
I think that perhaps people who are smart enough to own a few gold coins are also smart enough to not tell people, as that could make them a target for thieves.

I think a few years ago, people bought gold coins as an inflation hedge. But now, the news has gotten worse and worse, and I tell people gold is a chaos hedge which is even more important.

I can’t believe the many reviews of your wonderful newsletter that have been posted on the Stock Gumshoe website by people who start out by saying they have never subscribed to your newsletter.

And the Ph.D who says his expertise is judging the voice of writers and says that he is sure that many of the favorable reviews were written by the same person. This only lowers my already low opinion of many Ph.Ds.

I don’t buy your newsletter for stock recommendations. I buy it for the level-headed explanation of what is happening in the world as it relates to money. Two or three days after each of your letters, I begin anticipating your next letter. I need solid ground under my feet. Which you provide. Thank you!

You are welcome to publish all or any part of this letter.

Best regards,
Alexander in California

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Wanderingwillie
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Wanderingwillie
August 28, 2010 2:23 pm

I was an earlier subscriber, but most of the negative critique here is correct. Most of those who have commented before me have complained, basically, that he is too “macro” (which I myself quite liked), but also that he is too stuck in the one investment, precious metals and of course cash.

Those who advocate selling the farm for precious metals’ investments never tell us how we will actually USE the investments on the Day of Judgement, when Armageddon comes. Will we go to Walmart with our gold coins? And will the check-out person at Safeway take our Barrick Gold share certificates in payment for our steak?

I agree with the PH.D guy: that particular raft of positive recommendations all looked like clones of each other.
And then the guy who disagreed with the PH.D! Why? Erm, because he said more or less what I have just said in my last sentence…clones etc. I have no university degree at all, so I guess his opinion of NON-Ph D people is also going to be lowered.
Here’s his logic: “I don’t like PH.Ds because I don’t like what PH.D’s say.”
Pathetic. No wonder our country is going to the dogs.

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Todd Thomas
Todd Thomas
September 1, 2010 12:44 am

I’m in the camp of reviewers who say if there is only one newsletter you could have, this is the one. I’ve subscribed for 2 years and subscribe to several other newsletters, including Gumshoe Irregulars, but this is the one I enjoy reading the most and consider my most valuable financial compass. For those of you who take anything from Stansberry & Associates, you know they quote Chris from time to time and refer to him as the best investor they know. I think the Aden sisters might agree with that assessment too. This letter is not for the short term trader but it’s no buy and hold deal either. Chris has made great calls over the years in stocks, metals, and currencies. His approach may seem too conservative for some but his current strategy is backed with consistent rationale, success, and a focus on not losing money. So for about $20 a month, you get updates to Chris’s portfolio, get an interesting history lesson in most issues, and will feel that you’re not being sold anything…just good advice, no guarantees, from a great investor.

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Dr. Wayne
Dr. Wayne
September 27, 2010 7:42 am

Chris has apparently made a lot of money over his decades in the market. Unfortunately he’s not made any for me. I wrote him that most of his stock picks were made years ago and that he rarely changes them. One example is Coeur d’Alene mines which he bought 7 years ago. It’s lower than its original recommended price, but he still won’t sell it. In fact, there’s no mining stock on his Gold/Silver list which has been added in over 2 years! He has a buy and hold strategy and keeps reminding you that that he’s got all the money he wants. Good for him. If you weren’t a reader years ago, too bad for you.

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Chris Weber
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September 27, 2010 10:04 am

To Dr Wayne, above, it is clear that you have not taken my advice to be in actual gold and silver. There is a reason I have not recommended stocks for a couple of years: I thought they would lag the metals, and they have. The only reason I keep stocks is when I can do so completely risk free: CDE was bought, doubled, and the principal banked or put into actual gold or silver. The rest is just held. I tell people I don’t expect much from it, but it costs me nothing to hold it.
The deeper problem–and the reason I’m responding–is that many people are still too tied to stocks in general. They see stocks as the way to wealth. They were for a wonderful 25 years, starting in 1982. But those days are over. People still hoping stocks will make them rich are only going to be frustrated. More time has to pass before they shift gears. Exactly how much time depends on the person.

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Jack
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Jack
October 1, 2010 11:04 am

I have been a subscriber for three or four years. I am 77 years old and may be getting on the forgetful side, but it occurs to me that there are times when it is best to just sit tight and not get excited. This is one of those times. Chris is smart, knowledgeable about the markets and yes, macro stuff.
Guess what? You guys that need constant reco’s and excitement, go somewhere else to subscribe and lose your money. Or become a rodeo rider. I hauled hazardous materials for 40 years and that was pretty exciting.
The point is: this newsletter is not for everyone,none is. If you don’t think it is for you, get on your horse and go where it is. Seems you waste a lot of your valuable time criticizing something that you don’t know anything about. I get several letters published by agora and they are ok, but Chris is my favorite. No hype, no secret investments. I first ran across Chris when he was at Oxford Club and he impressed me then and still does. Lost track of him when he left and just found him about 4 years ago. By far my most valulable newsletter. Shouldn’t be any doubts as to whether I am a real person or not. The big world probably doesn’t care if you take his letter or not, And he probably won’t go out of business if you don’t. I have never written a review before, but had to get into this fight because the acccusations are way off. Keep up the good work Chris. FYI: Have never met Chris in person although it would be a pleasure.

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DEVIL DOG
October 1, 2010 5:35 pm

I started subscribing to Chris Webers’ newsletter about two years ago and unfortunately, I did not heed any of his advice until last January. Since then, I have taken his advice and stayed out of the stock market with 50% in cash and the remainder in gold and silver. So far YTD I am up 15.3% using trailing stops for safety. He is definately a force in the market to be listened to and studied. I was a late comer and so far I’m ahead of the game by listening to what Chris has to say. This guy is the real deal, my numbers don’t lie! Its definately not too late to take advantage of what is happening in the marketplace based on Webers advice, but you need to get into the game as I have learned!Semper Fi!!

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Brian
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Brian
October 25, 2010 1:48 pm

As a potential subscriber. Can somebody please clarify Mr. Weber’s calls on March of 2009? When gold stocks dropped severely. Regarding his call to sell everything.. There seems to be some difference in opinion.
Thanks,
Brian

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MarkHu
November 1, 2010 6:34 pm

I subscribed to Chris Weber’s newsletter in February 2009 after reading a number of positive reviews on this stockgumshoe.com site, and I am happy to say over a year-and-a-half later that it has been a very enlightening and educational experience. Weber is totally understated and not at all like the hypesters at Agora (though I do continue to read Stansberry and his crew.) Weber is even more understated than Richard Maybury, another anarcho-capitalist crypto-libertarian. I use these terms with the utmost fondness, and you will too after you read these guys and their predecessors like Murray Rothbard and other Austrian model authors (many re-printed by Mises.org site.)

My use of the term enlightened above is deliberate, and intended to emphasize a distinction from “merely educational” in the sense that gaining a firm understanding of economic principles is so much more valuable than merely scrambling for a scoop or stock pick based off a trend in the latest data.

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sram
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November 6, 2010 1:24 pm

I had subscription for a year and did not find anything useful except for some educational advices. Most of the picks or stance in the market are not definitive. For example, when gold moves up, the author publishes newsletter saying, “I said so..” and somewhere in the last paragraph will negate his own statements with caution. Later, after few weeks when gold moves down, the author will say, “I did caution about this…”.
You do not need to subscribe from experts to get this kind of cat on the wall advice. You either stay affirmed in your pick or not, but this author in most of his pick will take both positive and negative stance, so that he can cover his track later. Not worth for the money…

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