Motley Fool: Rule Breakers

Rule Breakers is a great service for stock ideas

Like most Motley Fool services, Rule Breakers is geared towards long term, buy and hold investors.This is not a newsletter for investors who are looking to move in and out of the market on the latest technical indicators or momentum moves. You can get more in depth information of the pros and cons of the service at motleyfoolreview.com

But the picks in this service are generally more volatile, so I wouldn't recommend this as your primary source for investment ideas. I think Rule Breakers works best as a complement to an existing portfolio, or even another Motley Fool service, so that you aren't concentrated in these somewhat risky stocks entirely.

They've got a 30 day trial as well, so it's a no lose situation if you want to try it for yourself.

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1.0

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Past Performance is good but hard to believe it can contunue

Have had this subscription for only 6 months so it may be a bit premature to rate this advisory service in that their goal is to find companies that are long-term game changers. They have correctly identified great performers like Netflix and Chitpotle Mexian Grill to name but a few, however along with the home runs their past is repleat with strikeouts. One has to expect this when looking for hidden gems, however my difficulty is with the type of analysis used to find great performers. Thus far it appears to me that the research and decision-making is based on mostly qualitative measures. For example, with one of the current picks Homeaway (AWAY) it appears the entire basis for picking this company is that the newsletter author used the service and liked it. Personally, I like services that are more quantitative in their approach and utulize a more rigorous selection model that one can replicate to a degreee. Time will tell if I am wrong (I plan on giving this one 2 years before making a final decision).

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1.6

User’s Review Ratings

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So-so

I subscribed Rule Breakers because it was run by David Gardner who is a much better stock picker than most other Fools incl. his brother Tom. I had some good picks in GOOG, AKAM, CTRP, EDU but I was lucky that I sold at the right time. For $299/yr, this newsletter does not manage your stocks for you well or in a timely manner, you can easily lose everything very quickly so you need to have some good TA to complement these picks but it's hard because you have to really know the company well.

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5.0

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The following review is from www.stockgumshoe.com

In general I found the letters useful

I subscribe to PRO, Stock Advisor, Million Dollar Portfolio, Global Gains, Hidden Gems and Rule Breakers and will post this review on all the sites. In general I found the letters useful for ideas in an up market, but not terribly helpful in our current down market. I found some excellent companies like DWSN, EDU & CTRP that I would not otherwise have looked at. Sell recommendations usually come too late and analysts tend to fall in love with stocks and catch “falling knives”. For example the...

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