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josey
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josey
January 15, 2011 10:08 am

I made a trial subscription with vector vest news letter and when the trial period ended without notifying me they started charging me fifty dollars and they did it twice suibscription. I tried to get a refund from vector vest and would not get it. They use high pressure tricky techniques to entrap you with a sub and their accesibility is tricky and paranoic cuz they think you are trying to get something free from them. I cannot recommend vector vest to anyone.
They make exaggerated claims as to their performance also. I cannot recommend vector vest to anyone

Rich S.
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Rich S.
January 23, 2011 9:38 pm

I attempted (twice) to provide my opinion about VV. My opinions were negative and that NO PERSON WHO HAD THE ABILITY TO DETERMINE WINNERS AT 80% OR BETTER WOULD WANT TO SELL ANYONE PARTNERSHIP INTO THEIR SYSTEM FOR ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY.
And, each time I submitted my opinions, they were blocked saying that I cursed.
LOL
It’s a scam.
Sure, it can provide some good analysis.
And, sometimes you will make good money.
But, sometimes you will lose a lot of money.

The inventor has determined, that for him to have a guaranteed of being rich, the best way, is for him to sell his memberships at $600 a pop. That will make him a guaranteed winner.

There is no golden goose.

Swing Trader
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Swing Trader
February 1, 2011 3:25 pm

I use VectorVest daily and use it for very short term stock swings. I make a quick gain and get out. With the first trade each month I pay for the subscription. Caution! They have very liberal stops which I do not use as you may incur large losses. I do feel that they have a good sense of market timing.

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Aj
February 6, 2011 5:55 pm

I used it for a year and lost a lot of money. Too cumbersome to use and after the fact performance.

DAR
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DAR
February 8, 2011 8:00 pm

I’ve only been using VV for about four months, but I find it very useful. I don’t rely on anyone’s system, but prefer trusting my own analyses. But VV saves me a lot of time with their ratios. Normally I would have to do that research myself. I double checked their data and found it close enough to be reliable. VV is too slow reaching a “sell” position — too long on “hold.” And I have not found their stock recommendations strong choices. Also, I’ve picked up a few errors in data. But overall, as PART of your portfolio management, VV is helpful, although a bit pricy.

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Ed
February 23, 2011 7:29 pm

If I would have had VectorVest 2 weeks earlier, I would have been in this rally going long from the beginning instead of going short like all the gurus were saying back in August and losing my shirt. I think they are first class, but I would recommend that you a least know a little technical analysis to go along with it like stochastics, MACD, OBV and how to draw a trend line. Stick to the picks from the SP500 and you will get more reliable results. I have found this out from extensive backtesting. Nothing works 100% of the time or somebody would have found it by now and have all the money in the world.

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jayminho
March 8, 2011 10:39 pm

in a market full of scamers, the first thing to be said is, they are legit!
lets face it, they been around since 85, have a phone number a physical address where you can pay them a visit. how many “trading system/gurus” out there make this available to you ? – they also run workshops around the country and other continents, so, they sure do have a loyal audience.
with that being said, lets go to the part where it matters most; how good is their system ?
there is no such thing as holy grail in the stock market, and we all know that. I found them to have cons as well as amazing pros.

(the pros)
– its easy to use
– they have proprietary system
– the customer support is amazing, you call them, they call you back, assist you in everything.
– they have strategies every week who are integrated to their system.
– they have all types of strategies, for daytraders, swing traders, short, mid and long term and also retirement strategies
– you can backtest everything and follow their results.

(the cons)
– as some have stated above, they do delete bk’d companies. which leaves a bad impression, you might think they are trying to hide something.
– its not cheap. i think the cheapest package is around 29/month, i pay 228/month for my package + addons (=addons at vectorvest are things like, realtime marketing, other vectorvest softwares, etc..)
– no forex, futures strategies

well
by the end of the day, yes, i would recommend to friends.

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Erik
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Erik
March 23, 2011 8:16 pm

UGH…STOP WORRYING ABOUT THE MARKETING, PEOPLE! Look at the RESULTS! I’ve been a VV subscriber for 4 years. The most valuable call that VectorVest has ever issued was a confirmed down call on June 11th, 2008, before the market tanked! As a result, I stayed out of the market, briefly lost 20% on a confirmed (incorrect) UP the following January, but then DOUBLED MY MONEY shortly thereafter after the next UP was issued.

If you’re going to use VectorVest, here are the 4 biggest things to keep in mind that I can’t stress enough:

1) Disregard the BUY/SELL/HOLD recommendations. Do your own fundamental and technical analysis of stocks using their custom search tools, and build a few custom searches. If you don’t know how evaluate a stock properly, don’t subscribe.

2) DO go with their confirmed UP calls, but use a different method for getting out of stocks. Their confirmed DOWN calls are usually a bit late, but they have other proprietary methods for getting out soon enough to lock in your profits like their “ProTrader DEW.” Also, know your stops: 20% Down/50% up are good stops for most strategies. Don’t buy stocks, no matter what the recommendation, if the Market is in a confirmed Down.

3) Do ready the VectorVest Views every day. Often times the author will reveal something about his view of the market going forward that will help you stay on the right side of the market.

4) Backtest, backtest, backtest! I’ve backtested nearly everything, and although I’d rather not reveal which strategies I use personally, I can ABSOLUTELY verify that some of their pre-populated strategies are real gems. I tweaked a few of them, and the one I use now has returned over 11,000% over the last 9 years, and 432% in real returns since I started subscribing 4 years ago.

One last comment/secret: You can ABSOLUTELY MAKE MONEY without being accurate more than 50% of the time. The above referenced strategy is only accurate 46% of the time, but because my upside is always greater than my downside, it works. 50/20 stops are all it takes.

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Alfred
September 6, 2011 9:37 am

How good is the VV system? I don’t know. The first time when I run the 5-week trial subscription (using stock-viewer on HKG stocks), I found the difference in market capital/#of shares between what reported in VV system vs what actually are for some HKG stocks were very substantial. The #2 largest market capital stock in HKG (0939.HK) being ranked as #37 (there was a 10 times difference, HKD126.7B in VV vs HKD1267B actual). Seven out of the 46 stocks that compose the Hang Seng Index have their market capital wrong in VV.
I would suggest VV to follow up very seriously with the data supplier on data integrity and may also want to do some QA on data being fed. Things like EPS, P/E are calculated based on #of shares. If VV’s suggestions are based on wrong data input, some good money may go down the drain by taking up the suggestions. By the way, at least one stock listed since Jun2011 is not in VV system (0871.HK).
I HAVE INFORMED VV ON THE PROBLEMS (THRU PHONE CALLS/EMAILS TO SUPPORT , SALES, DATA MANAGER )SINCE 11AUG2011, THERE WAS NO RESPONSE ON WHAT HAPPENED AND WHAT VV WILL DO TO CLEAN UP THEIR DATA BASE.
I am totally disappointed.

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Charles Anderson
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Charles Anderson
May 3, 2012 10:24 am

I chose the VectorVest trial offer in December and stayed with them through April. I picked only stocks from their top ten stock evaluations list. I started out with $18,264 in December and ended up with $14,551 at the end of April when I cancelled. Their top picks deteriorated and hit the sell stops consistently. If I had been selling short, I would have done well. When I cancelled I told the customer serevice rep that, as in the movie, “I can do bad by myself.”

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steve baschnagel
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steve baschnagel
May 10, 2012 9:10 am

does vectorvest work

HedgeGuy
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HedgeGuy
August 14, 2012 11:37 am

This is the second time that I have tried Vestorvest. It is a well developed trading information system but at its heart it is designed to gather in customer subscription fees at higher rates. The basic information in very one sided with their ratings designed to enhabce the customers investment decisions. At the time of this review, August 12, 2012, Berkshire Hathaway is only rated .95 on Realative Safety is an example. 1.0 is the base line. There are many terrible credits rated higher, mush higher, but I quibble. The maiin problem is that therir strategies to work, you must subscribe to add-ons which cost mucho dollars. The strategies that work best are the so called bottom fishing ones. That is, when the market starts to turn higher, purchase those stocks which are and have done the worst. They carefully pick out the one staretegy out of hundreds that does best to get you to purchase the add-ons which, by the way, work best with the strategy chosen. The timing model, which is the heart of all the trading strategies costs an extra $495. to implement. The weekly stratgy of the week almost always has at its core the purchase of an add-on.

sharonlogue
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sharonlogue
October 10, 2013 2:19 pm

I have used them for 5 years and If you really like to create your own searches, this product is for you. For example, you can pick from over 100’s of possibilities, using existing searches and modifying them just by adding another parameter. Then, you can have it alert you by filtering a “watchdog”. Their market timing is enhanced by a “green light or red light ” kicker so you don’t enter late into a move. Saves me $1,000’s as no trade is probably the best trade. Charting is excellent in real time, as you can quick screen which then translates into the same ## of quickly viewble charts , this is a big time saver as it’s linked to your searches. Actually, they save me lots of time just using the same quick testing for back testing even for just a few days or hours. I agree that the value ranking may keep you out of trades, as its very very conservative. But you won’t get into bad trades with them either, if you just buy on the greenlight kicker buy signal, never on a hold or sell. I’ve developed my own searches for daily momentum, and it works consistently, if I just want an option play for less than a week. ( I pick the canned momentum screen and multiple by top 10 sectors top tens ) This works before earnings much like Trade Station, or Esignal hot lists. The downside can be analysis paralysis, as it just has every computable possibility imaginable, and it does not automate trading with a broker.
In summary, it will uncanningly reinforce a reason not to buy a stock, and it will quickly reinforce a reason to anticipate the macro market movement.

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rampage
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rampage
October 29, 2013 2:13 pm

VectorVest keeps showing strategies that works great in the past. They find the time period it works best and uses it to fool people in their strategy of the week.
It is like saying if you bought the lottery with the following numbers last week, you would have made 10000% profit.
After using VV for over 10 years, I have not seen better performance compared to buying multiple mutual funds.

If you have the stomach for 40% drawdown, then you can make money on good years with strategies that buys stocks less than $5.
For a prudent investor you may see 10% return which is similar to mutual fund.

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Jim Dover
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Jim Dover
April 23, 2015 2:42 pm

As an investor for over 30 years I can tell you vector vest is a total scam. don’t buy into their ridiculous claims… not worth the money. You would be much better off going with IBD, gorilla trades, or even zacks…

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sg22
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sg22
July 30, 2015 12:31 am

VectorVest is one of the best systems you can use for market timing and analyzing your stocks. VectorVest is a system that give you unbiased guidance and powerful tools help you make money in the stock market, but it’s not a get rich quick scheme. You can try it for like $10 bucks though and they offer a new successful investing quick start course that I really enjoyed.
The system is constantly evolving and many investor seems to love it, not just me. Here are a few of the comments I’ve seen online recently:

*Kal G. from Pennsylvania*
“My experience with VV has been very good. As an experienced trader, now I can get all my market informations from one source. Your instructors are also great teachers. The tech service is unparalleled.”

*Brian O. from Sheffield*
“comprehensive program which saves you a tremendous amount of work.”

*Doug B. from Florida*
The system allows an investor to create strategies based on their individual risk parameters using any number of criteria from fundamental to technical analysis. The ability to back test your strategies is invaluable. I am able to be more disciplined following a strategy because I have less emotional attachment to the stock selections because I am following a strategy that has performed well in the past.”

*Jesse T. from Texas*
“In the sea of thousands of stocks, VV gives me a way to choose some quality stocks. It also provides the added confidence to sell a stock.”

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Phoenix
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Phoenix
December 9, 2015 1:03 pm
Reply to  sg22

Mark, it’s pretty obvious u work for Vectorvest. Give it a break man.

Donald OBrien
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Donald OBrien
June 29, 2016 9:08 pm

Vector vest. Recomendations

jamkib
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September 16, 2016 12:58 pm

Anyone has had problems cancelling this service ? My subscription was renewed without prior notification. When cancelled hefty charge for 4 usages and 6% PENALTY !!!
Also, has been bombarded with so many other added features, when it is difficult to keep up what we have.
Overwhelming to say the least.
Have not tried to use the suggestions, therefore, cannot comment on success rate.
Response when cancelled was not welcoming. Disappointing, to say the least.
Will not use this system again. It really is NOT cheap.

george eura
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george eura
October 22, 2017 2:09 pm
Reply to  jamkib

jamkib:

Did you tried monthly or annually, I just wonder.

Trader Joe
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Trader Joe
December 28, 2017 6:35 am
Reply to  jamkib

Google search brought me to this site and I saw mentions of priceseries.com and then I read about your issues of Cancelling the Vectorvest. Well priceseries is great they provide a link to cancel the subscription from within the software. Clearly an out of normal move for a company in financial services. It is great to have a vendor like priceseries, which values it’s customer’s issues.

Abbey Payton
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Abbey Payton
August 29, 2020 6:53 pm
Reply to  jamkib

apple facilitates cancelation fees, VectorVest really has no control over any excessive charge you recived, if it pertains to cancelation

Roger
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Roger
January 8, 2017 8:26 pm

I have tried Vectorvest before. It was never the best software I have seen. These days I am using priceSeries (http://www.priceseries.com) with some great trading results.

TheTruth
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TheTruth
January 19, 2017 7:57 pm
Reply to  Roger

Roger!
You are letting the cat out of the bag.
I must agree that after trading for years, I have finally come across something that really works (~80%+). I hope they (price series) keep up the good work! I only need 3 more years and I will retire 🙂
Jon

Roger
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Roger
May 17, 2017 5:38 am
Reply to  Roger

Jea Yu recently reviewed the priceseries software. He has given 5 stars to TradeVisor while bashing VectorVest in his review. Check it out at (http://www.priceseries.com/tradevisor_review_jea.html) or go to the priceseries webpage at http://www.priceseries.com

Roger
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Roger
December 12, 2018 5:27 pm
Reply to  Roger

priceSeries has been named as the Top 20 Capital Markets Solution Providers for 2018 by CIOReview magazine. It’s time that these guys get recognition.
https://capital-markets.cioreview.com/vendor/2018/priceseries

Sam
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Sam
February 1, 2017 11:17 pm

Took a year’s subscription to test it: the algorithms and charting info they use make their ‘top stocks’ a highly volatile list – not easy to get a sense of which companies are fundamentally sounds and worth staying with despite movement.
There is no Australian customer service to speak of: the number for Aus customers is misleading as it does not function during Aus business hours.
Also be careful with auto-renewals – they do them even when you have set your account to ‘no’ and it is hard work getting your money back and you won’t get all of it.
Nothing here that you can’t find with local programs, and better to have local service available during business hours.

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