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The Manage my subscription page is incomplete and people can't cancel or edit their auto-renewal. There's no other way to cancel the renewal than sending them an email. Immediate 1 star from me. I'm far (9 months) before the renewal date, but it's downright rude.

I like the information but it does not necessarily translate into the best returns.
Just signed up for best secret stocks for 2026 at a cost of $1300. While I am optimistic so far their pics are crapping the bed. I chose these pics to get away from being to heavy into tech/AI. hopefully it pays off in the long run.

Too many super offers of 'super stocks' about which you will get information if you pay extra. I don't like the fact that MF isn't honest and transparent enough to give their best possible advice to their subscribers at all times.

I'm an experienced #investor. If you keep in touch with any of these #investment# management firms, you will discover that they are all #dishonest. I've tried the majority of them at least once throughout the years. #Don't squander your money.

Only #Apex# #point# #llc# operates with a sense of calm control over every #investment#. #Payouts# remain predictable and timely, adding to the overall trust.

Scam. As soon as they run your credit card you are directed to a page asking you pay much more for actual full access. This was not clear and is dishonest.
The Fool spreadsheet on our investments has serious miscalculations. Basic math mistakes. We do not trust Fool anymore. The rep cancelling our subscription is no longer returning emails. Motley Fool is shifty, stay away.

I don’t even want to give it a star. I get 7 emails about upsells for every one relevant to investing. Such a waste of money! I hate leaving bad reviews but people must be warned. There isn’t a turn off auto renewal button, you need to contact them…”so my service isn’t interrupted” what service? I’m in some perpetual upsell machine. I’ll give you some investing advice look elsewhere for helpful resources, this isn’t it.

I've paid for The Motley Fool for nearly 2 years, and it is almost entirely irrelevant information. They send you multiple marketing emails every day - it's like you pay the membership fee just so they can have access to your email account and market more bloated stock services to you. I literally couldn't even find the emails that were supposed to be from the actual service helping me choose stocks because there was so much trash marketing emails. Skip this worthless service and do a bit of research, or heck, just watch a solid YouTuber with a good track record. The Motley Fool Stock Advisor service and subscription are trash.

Firstly let me say that this company is very appropriately named. If after reading the reviews, you still chose the subscribe then I guess you are a fool.

The first piece of advice they give after subscribing is to upgrade your subscription to a more expensive “premium” subscription. The marketing does not stop.

I purchased an initial 2 year subscription and I have not found it to be at all useful. Now after 2 years I want to cancel - there is no way to cancel. Log on to your account, go to manage my subscription - no way to modify or cancel.

Would I have given them no star rating at all? YES.

I would have more richer if I did opposite to their recommendations.

None of my years with #Apex# #point# #llc# have I ever had losses. Why on here?

First I only used them for ideas and I did my own research and found most of their picks to be too late (I bought 7 of their picks before a 200-400% positive run up when Fool said buy). I was called a fool because I follow risk management. Bluechip FMC I bought at $112 it dropped to $95 my stop loss triggered. 6 months later it hit $12.50: an 87% drop. That is a portfolio killer. I came back in at $12.85. RGTI bought 5000 shares at $0.50 sold out in blocks 300 @ $12, $24, $34, $44, $54, $50, $40, $35, $30. I made over $127,000 and still hold 1500 shares which I will hold a long time. RGTI is sitting at $16 now so I would have watched $71k in profits puff. Buy 5 years hold no matter what. Assinnine!! Foolish, stupid. You must have profit exit strategy and stops on major corp shifts. Thats hard to teach but having a bunch of group-think indoctrinated bozos preaching is easy.

Motley Fool's fabulous results are .... well I don't know? Fool should allow an independent audit from a major accounting firm or a boutique quantitative analysis audit firm, as all stocks need to do. If no outside firm they're results have no veracity.

"Don’t put money and/or trust into anything that refuses independent verification:” Motley Fool fails that test immediately. A public company like Bank of America: must publish audited financials must comply with SEC regulations must disclose risks must follow GAAP or it faces legal consequences for misrepresentation. Even the lottery games numbers or gambling casinos get audited. Fool wants your money for its services. Now you are going to place YOUR MONEY in uncorroborated outcomes of winning percentages? How real are their results?

Motley Fool, as a newsletter, publishes unaudited performance and is not required to verify claims of it so-called successful results. It does not disclose its' methodology, nor does it provide raw data. They could have called Palantir at $6 or D-Wave at $0.75 [ they put a sale on PLTR at $29 then a buy again at $130 400% run and D-Wave instead of buying prior Halloween 2024 they call it a retirement stock at $20 after a 2500% runup, Upstart Fool had a buy on at $320 and held that buy call all the down to $40].

Motley Fool does not provide transparency required for an honest, independent review. If they released: full historical pick lists with exact date & timestamps of entry/exit, assumptions, methodology, raw data for every service…then any analyst, quant, or accounting firm could run the following: mean return, median return, standard deviation, Sharpe ratio, outlier removal, benchmark comparisons. But Motley Fool does not: their results can be concluded to be as apocryphal. Fool has been in business many years and this would erase all doubts. Anybody could manipulate the data, and concealment makes me wonder even more if there is manipulation of the data. What is Motley Fool hiding from?

Fool states their stock returns are superior however I would love to see how their 250+ stock picks blindly holding for 5 years. Let KPMG, Deloitte or Ernst & Young audit the results and not some fly by night. I would love to see returns for the avg FOOL 250+ buy ratings and not the outliers. Do top 25, mean 25, mode 25 and bottom 25. Show the standard deviation of the 250: I bet it is immense.

Motley Fool threw me off & refunded my money after 4 months, Why?; I questioned their picks as being too late, no risk management and their non-fiduciary dogma. Instead of allowing dissenting opinions which punched a lot of holes in their philosophy & questioning of Fool's doctrine; FOOL chose silencing. I am not a lamb blindly following the Motley Fool sheep to the slaughterhouse. " Buy 25 stocks, hold 5 years no matter what, look at 5-year graphs as past performance is indicative of future, good companies stay good companies" is their canon. If it was that easy?

There is no risk management as you must hold 5 years which is mentally challenged as if a blue-chip drop 18% get out that's a problem or AT&T cuts dividend in 2021, they must hold, AT&T still hasn't reached its 2021 high of $39. DIS $95 to $230 t during covid then after back to $100 in 3 years. Instead of making 150% some made nil or just a few bucks. Their ignorance was proved when they stated that BRK.b (Berkshire Hathway) was superior over ETF QQQ but the Q up 1,400% over past 20 years doubled over BRK.b: 650%. The staff cannot even read a graph that their canon blindly follows.

Many of their recommendations loose money; few of them makes money. If you hold them as their suggested time period (5 yrs) you loose your shirt! For example, if you had bought (in 2021) stocks recommended by them DOCN, U, RDFN, XYZ, PATH, FUBO, BAND, FVRR, UPST, TASK and held it as of today, you LOST big time (check for yourself). You are a FOOL if you have invested in these stocks. The name Motley Fool says it all!!
At the same, if you had invested that money in ETFs such as VUG, VOO, FBCG, FTEC you are sitting pretty now.

I tried my hand with Tokennblaze, so i've seen how these systems work.

I can tell there is a lot of high-quality information and detailed analysis. If you're already a finance pro, you'd probably love it but for me it just felt a bit dry and overwhelming. I cancelled after a few weeks as I didn't feel I was getting good value out of it.

​I'm giving it 3 stars because the information seems good, but it's just not accessible for someone like me who is still building confidence.

You are a fool by subscribing to this lousy stock picker. The only way to win is do the opposite of what they recommend, remember they refer to their subscribers as fools. BEWARE.

The worst stock market news ever. They flip flop based on what has higher view attraction. 0 stars

Waste of time and money. The service breaks the golden rule of under sell, over deliver. Most information is locked behind a second paywall and the features you have paid for are full of bugs.

Since the end of covid the Motley Fool is reinventing itself as an AI financial newsletters company which in reality makes no sense as they have missed so many AI winners, and recommended so many losers which they manage to skillfully hide from the larger public.
Motley Fool premium services are much too expensive as the competition is heating up the last few years: Substack financial newsletters, Seeking Alpha, etc.
And the competition is much better, much more streamlined, down to the point. And did I mention, much cheaper than the Motley Fool! The Motley Fool is run by this absurd and disingenuous CEO, Tom Gardner.
Not an honest company!

The Motley Fool charges an initial fee to become a member or premium member. Signed up for the premium member expecting to get premium information. The information received was the basic news you can read on any business forum. To get their super secret stock picks you must pay extra...up to $1250 extra for the really good stuff. It is a constant barage of offers for different stock picks for additional funds. It is a constant sales pitch from day one.

A fool and his money are easily parted.

DO NOT TAKE THE FOOLS ADVICE.

If you make investments on the advice of Motley Fools you will surely lose your investment. Fools use this site to try to get punters to prop up their appallingly bad choices using pump and dump advice.

Tip: Try making virtual investments with maybe some Monopoly money and watch it disappear in smoke. Consistently poor investment advice.

Today they are pushing HSBC and Sainsburys... both prices have slumped this week despite being advised to BUY last week.

This company's marketing emails are like the Publisher Clearance ads you used to see. Scroll, continue to scroll, scroll some more, then at the bottom of a VERY long email, the offer is there.

They misrepresent "free" - you have to buy one of their advisor programs to get the "free" pick.

One of their regular picks went down - I am sorry I bought it. I am sorry I bought a subscription.

I have told them I don't be renewing. I feel I wasted my time and money on this service??