FAQs Frequently Asked Questions - Investor Education

Can you send your reports and/or signals via text message?

Can I receive reports such as market direction model signal changes on my phone?

How do you quantify or measure success of your service?

What are the differences between Virtue of Selfish Investing and Gilmo Report?

Do you offer mentoring or coaching?

Please comment on your website's overall performance since the crash in March 2020.

I know how to pick stocks. How does your service add value? How often do you send out reports?

Who writes the material when no author is listed?

Please make the VoSI Watch List/Focus List Report available in Excel.

I depend on your service for guidance, yet you are telling me to look elsewhere?

Please explain the difference between real time reports vs. market timing vs. voodoo reports

I'm new to your site. How best to explore what your site has to offer?

I've missed some of your profitable stock suggestions. I don't have time to follow the stock market. How best should I utilize your site?

Do you provide personalized guidance to investors?

Where do I find the Focus List?

Why share your trading strategies with others?

How do I know if your investment style is right for me?

Your track record and other numbers are truly impressive but hard to believe. It would mean you're doing better than some of the best hedge funds in the world.

Do you manage money for accredited investors?

You have cited both legendary futures trader Ed Seykota as well as Martin Armstrong, but Armstrong pleaded guilty to conspiracy so how can you place stock in what he says?

It seems some of the paid services have no time delay. What am I getting that non-members aren't?

Are there any opportunities to work at your firm?

I am a novice and have little time to follow the market. What would you recommend I do with respect to all your services?

I am just curious how big money one can manage using your system.

I am interested in subscribing. How can I see old reports so I better understand how the services work?

Please tell me about your upcoming book, slated for Wiley's fall 2012 line-up.

How do you find these picks? Do you have some kind of volume alert on the IBD 100 or are you continuously looking at charts? What's the secret?

I am subscribed to your Real Time Reports. I am not sure what i am supposed to be receiving. Please explain?

Do you have an audited real-time track record?

Do Gil and Dr K contribute equally to all parts of the site?

How does a new member begin to follow the market timing and stock reports, "in the middle?" If you have already said buy X or short Y, does one wait until the next update?

Is there evidence whether or not your signals (or advisories) cause reactions in the markets of the ETFs or stocks involved?

I receive the Market Lab Reports and Newsletters but have not received the email updates on stocks and ETFs that are indicated. Please adivse.

When you put out a report, do you take a position in the stock?

How exactly do you find the stocks you end up buying? What exactly makes you buy them?

On your pricing...

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Thank you for sharing your NY trip with us on the blog. Pictures of places and situations the rest of us will never experience. Very nice!

WEBINARS: Can non-members view webinars after you give them?

This market environment is so difficult. Can you give some advice on how to stay grounded?

Did you start out being pretty calm about huge drawdowns (being a natural) or did you get better about it as you become a better trader?

How would one go about acquiring the skills and level of trading as yourself and Dr. K? Do you have any training or reading material that you can recommend besides the reading list of Dr. K?

Does virtue of selfish investing offer any summer internships or training programs?

Do you listen to any radio shows like Gary K., or read IBD daily updates on the market? Perhaps just in case you think you may have missed something small that can make a difference?

May i obtain a subscription either by phone or by regular mail?

I am curious to know what thought process gave you the confidence to give out such details knowing fully well that they may become useless for both you and your readers once they are in public domain.

What tools/books/courses/seminars would you recommend to become a profitable intraday trader?

Do you show your daily trades as well as your open trades?

In order to reduce my list of stocks that make it through the screen, which of the IBD ratings would you increase in order to reduce the list of passing stock to something manageable?

Is there a list of the stocks you are long?

Won't the very success of your site/book/interviews road shows etc . detract from ensuring the extreme focus you speak of as necessary/and affect the future results?

Why make this service available to others? Arent you concerned that it might make your strategies less useful to you? What are your goals in delivering this service?

What if I cant watch my stocks during the day to take advantage of the real-time email updates?